Little known fact that there use to be three islands with small amusement parks/casinos on them that operated in the 20-40’s. Boblo was the biggest one that lasted the longest.
Another one was called (something like) Naloo and it was on Harsen’s Island. The original building is still there and it is now a storage shed. I don’t know the third one, I think it was Tashmoo. I strongly suspect that these places were very popular during Prohibition and Booze Smuggling from our Canadian (aye) friends.
Technically, of course, we couldn’t claim Bob-Lo for Michigan, since it was in Ontario–although it was often owned by Michiganders.
Michiganders who are interested in a brief reminiscence (or maybe interested in discovering things they hadn’t known) can check out: http://detnews.com/history/boblo/boblo.htm
Does anyone know what happened to the Columbia and the Ste. Claire? I hope they weren’t sent to the breakers!
I’m sure Michigan is a nice place, but
ARG220 writes
Multiple ski resorts. I read somewhere that MI has the third most ski resorts in the nation.
Which ones are they? I’m an avid skier and I have never even heard of one Michigan ski resort. Would you rate Michigan skiing higher than Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, or California? Is Michigan Skiing the best kept secret on the planet?
Actually, I’ve never skied in my life. But for those who do ski, MI has 43 resorts to chose from (second only to New York), and all but 6 have snowboarding too. Some names are Boyne Mountain Resorts, Sugarloaf, Pine Nub, Mount Holly, and Blackjack. For more info, you can try going to www.freep.com and search on ski resorts. It should give you tons of info, if you really want it.
Well not any more! The resorts mentioned are very nice (I would add Michawaye) and less expensive than Colorado, California and back east, but you get what you pay for. Fewer and shorter runs, for one thing. Great for the casual skier, though, like me. And the season is fairly long.