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...
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Local History
As a general rule of thumb, the phrase “Main Street” is normally given to a road in a city, town, or village that runs through a specified area where the foremost business was being done in that community. The main streets of Manistee County are in essence no...
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Historic Tours, Local History
While salt was more or less discovered in Manistee, sand, on the other hand, was an abundant problem that residents of the city have had to, more or less, endure. In the past, the area’s sand dunes gave the city a unique reputation for being pretty to look at...
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Local History
When examining a grain of salt or a grain of sand, it is difficult using the naked eye to gauge which one is actually bigger than the other. In terms of Manistee’s industrial past, both mineral and sediment have played reasonably equal roles throughout the...
by Mark Fedder | Jan 27, 2016 | Local History
Prior to the late 1860s, there was no easy access across the Manistee river channel. This meant that the town was actually made up of two areas and two communities, those that resided North of the city limits and those that resided South of the city. The only way to...
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