Vintage Views Along the West Pike: From Sand Trails to US-31 is a pictorial history of Michigan's most famous road. The historic West Michigan Pike, originally M-11, was the first continuous, improved road between Michigan City and Mackinaw City. This route along the Lake Michigan coast opened West Michigan to automobile travel and tourism. The book depicts the adventure and romance of motoring on Michigan's most prominent early highway. Vintage postcards, photographs, maps, and ephemera illustrate this journey as you time ...
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Vintage Views Along the West Pike: From Sand Trails to US-31 is a pictorial history of Michigan's most famous road. The historic West Michigan Pike, originally M-11, was the first continuous, improved road between Michigan City and Mackinaw City. This route along the Lake Michigan coast opened West Michigan to automobile travel and tourism. The book depicts the adventure and romance of motoring on Michigan's most prominent early highway. Vintage postcards, photographs, maps, and ephemera illustrate this journey as you time-travel through the beautiful West Michigan landscape and quaint towns to hotels and cabins, tourist camps and state parks, and other stops along the road.
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Fine with no dust jacket. 1933926309. Authors signed title page. History and guide to Michigan's western highway illustrated throughout with photographs, postcards, historical advertisements.; MCN30495; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 248 pp; Signed by Author.
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Near Fine. 1933926309. An interesting approach to Michigan history--post cards and other memorabilia are pictured along with explanations of the illustrations and brief historical descriptions of cities and towns and other attractions along US 31, the highway that runs along Lake Michigan from Chicago to the Straits of Mackinac. Color pictorial covers with green cloth spine. There are several maps thoughout. This is a stated first edition. No dust jacket, as issued. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. There is a small binding error on the inside of the rear cover about the size of a dime where there appears to be a raised portion of glue used to attach the rear paste down--the paper cover the raisde portion tore at the edges, but it is not particularly objectionable, and I didn't even notice it upon my inital inspection of the book. I have included a picture of the inside of the rear cover.; Color & B&W Illustrations; Oblong 8vo, 8"-9" tall; 248 pages.
