Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: 1988

A closer look at the blade, and the mechanism which turns the blade. Love's Sawmill, Springport, Michigan; summer of 1988. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Well, sort of. This was his home when he lived in Ann Arbor, but after he moved away, Henry Ford purchased it, and moved it to Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Pretty place. Photo taken in the fall of 1988. Scanned from a slide.

Thomas Edison's Menlo Park invention factory, as reestablished at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Taken in the autumn of 1988. There's something about Greenfield Village. For those of us who live near Dearborn, it's a special place; a slice of history as captured by Henry Ford and as interpreted by his successors. But I've friends in Dayton who consider the Wright Cycle Shop to be a stolen artifact, and I suspect there are folks in New Jersey with similar opinions about these buildings. ============= Sorry 'bout the horribly dirty slide. I may work this one over again one of these days.

And shake shingles! Another Springport photo.... This appears to be part of the Love's Sawmill complex, though this building does not show in any of the other pix. Wonderful old place, regardless. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100; 1988.

This photo shows how the pieces all fit together. Springport, Michigan; 1988. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Another closeup of the machinery which runs the saw. Danged if I know what this stuff does, but it looks interesting. Springport, Michigan; 1988. Taken with a Minolta Freedom 100.

The same equipment as yesterday's photograph , from another angle. And the surrounding environment. Love's Sawmill, Springport, Michigan; 1988. Photo taken with a Minolta Freedom 100. Small sawmill operations seem always to be pretty slapdash, but this one's different. I expected (but didn't find) large piles of sawdust on the grounds. Another surprise was that this downtown sawmill used an apparently-portable mill for the work. A third was that they didn't house that mill under a roof. As I said, different. My favorite picture in this set, by the way.

One last look at Springport, Michigan's old New York Central depot before we go on our way. 1988. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Springport's depot is, and apparently always was, nestled in the local grain dealer's complex. Here's the first of a couple photos of that complex as it looked in 1988, according to my little Minolta.

Duluth harbor, from the pilot house of former US Steel Great Lakes Fleet flagship William A. Irvin , in August of 1988 (I think.) The Irvin was retired in the late 1970s, and has been a museum in Duluth's harbor for the past two decades. That's the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge , of course, near the center of the photo. The ferry sharing the channel with the the Irvin is Wenonah . Wenonah's now one of the boats ferrying visitors from Grand Portage to Isle Royale, but I don't know what she was doing in 1988.