by Andrew Allen | May 11, 2018 | Entertainment & Culture, Featured, First Time Visitors, Free Tours, Historic Tours, Local History, Media Relations, Self Guided Tours, Tours, Uncategorized
By: Andrew Allen HOLLYWOOD ACTOR TONI TRUCKS DEDICATES HISTORIC SITES TOURS Hollywood Actor and Manistee native Toni Trucks (known for her parts in Seal Team and Twilight Breaking Dawn) came home for a very special event at the Ramsdell Theatre. Media and the local... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 15, 2016 | Fall, Local History, Self Guided Tours
I can’t count how many times I’ve traveled across M-55 to get to Manistee County from the east side of the state. What I recently learned is that right before the village of Wellston, you will cross one of Michigan’s rarest truss bridges. The Cooley Bridge is... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 10, 2016 | Historic Tours, Local History, Self Guided Tours
In 1941, a unique home was built in Kaleva out of 60,000 glass bottles by John Makinen. Mr. Makinen owned the local pop bottling factory so he used chipped or flawed bottles from his pop bottling factory for his house. It was designed with artistic placement of the... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 2, 2016 | Entertainment & Culture, First Time Visitors, Historic Tours, Local History, Self Guided Tours
Built in 1938, in the then popular Art Deco Style, the Vogue was part of a large Midwestern chain owned by the Butterfield Theaters. The 935 seat theater continued to operate as a single screen until Butterfield Theaters sold it in 1985 and it was changed into a two...
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