As a child, we shopped on Michigan Street which was just two blocks from our home.

North Side:                                                                                    South Side:

Coit Avenue:

Pastoor's Grocery Store                                                             Coat and Apron Commercial Laundry
Fairbank's Bakery                                                                        Bud's Shoe Repair
Barber Shop
Hill's Drug Store

Clancy Avenue:
Hardware Store
Small grocery story with bow windows
A bar
Nelson's Drug Store
Seitz Dime Store                                                                            Gordon Food Service
Old Kent Bank                                                                                  City Service Gas Station  

Lafayette Avenue:
Reagan's Drug Store                                                                      Kroger's Grocery Store
Laundromat                                                                                     

Family Theater
Buth Dairy                                                                                         Calvary Church
                                                                                                        

  Grand Rapids Vintages 2006, Grand Rapids Press

Trill's Gas Station                                                                             A&P Grocery Store                                                                        

  Grand Rapids Vintages 2006, Grand Rapids Press

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