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Were you in the area at that time? Apparently it rolled right through our area and caused a lot of damage around Maple and Orchard Lake Road. It started our as an unseasonably warm first day of spring (3/20/1976) that was to take a turn for the worse. Much worse! The powerful EF4 tornado had…
Read More1938: What Was Life Like in Greater West Bloomfield? Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 pm West Bloomfield Library Main Meeting Room, 4600 Walnut Lake Road Take a look back at life in 1938-era West Bloomfield, when the West Bloomfield Township Public Library was being established. Farms and orchards covered much of the Township, and only a…
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From MichiganHighways.org: The freeway portion of M-10 in Detroit and Southfield is officially known as the John C. Lodge Freeway, however several of the route’s former names are still used by some. The actual “John C. Lodge Expwy” originally only ran from Downtown Detroit out to the “Linwood Curve,” halfway between the Davison and Wyoming…
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