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West side of Kalamazoo building on Michigan Ave. Taken from the ISB Building. Photo courtesy of Kalamazoo Police Department.
1965-66 Kalamazoo KG-2. Gibson offered these as a budget model made of MDF (medium density fiberboard). It featured inexpensive electronics and hardware. Very much a stab at Fender guitars, this guitar features a 7.25" fretboard radius and a bridge that matches which indicates that Gibson did indeed tool up some specialty parts for these guitars.
Designed by Cyrus Eidlitz and opened in 1887, the Kalamazoo Amtrak station now houses not only railroad passengers, but Greyhound and Indian Trails intercity buses as well as local public transit. It was built for the Michigan Central Railroad, and was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Looking southwest across downtown Kalamazoo. The intersection of Edward and Water Street is in the lower left corner.
September 3, 2024
Cropped from a pano of nine images taken with an Autel EVO Lite+. Stitched in Lightroom Classic.
Portage Muskie Varsity Hockey vs. Kalamazoo Eaglesi, Wednesday 1 December 2021
Chris Diamondidis
Copyright: Geoffrey M. Miller
Labor Day.
Went downtown to take advantage of all of the Labor Day sales (which were happening everywhere else but here) to make this pano of downtown Kalamazoo. Check out East Michigan Avenue :-)
DJI Phantom 3 Standard; stitched in Lightroom.
It was a bit dicey flying, though. There are something like ten million wifi networks downtown; I quickly lost the signal to the aircraft and had to land. But I got my photos!
Near the N 10th Street trail head of the Kal Haven Trail
Kalamazoo, Michigan
January 16, 2024. 6° F
Mavic Mini 3 Pro
5045 East Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Visually, the other side of this building is more interesting, but I need to check out how to get an interesting image in semi-legal fashion. The biggest issue is the "no parking" sign on the highway that separates the church property from a gravel pit.
Tech: HDR from three images made with a handheld Canon EOS 60D autobracketed at +/- 2EV. Merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. Perspective correction with DxO Viewpoint and further adjustments with DxO Filmpack and Nik Viveza.
My friend is a Realtor and she asked me to take some pictures of significant places in the Kalamazoo area for a booklet her employer is publishing. That is what I did this morning.
Just yesterday the new bus transit center (foreground) opened next to the train station. The architecture is modern but uses element from the old structure.
Portage Muskie Varsity Hockey vs. Kalamazoo Eaglesi, Wednesday 1 December 2021
Nick Jepson
Copyright: Geoffrey M. Miller
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Portage Muskie Varsity Hockey vs. Kalamazoo Eaglesi, Wednesday 1 December 2021
Chris Diamondidis
Copyright: Geoffrey M. Miller
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Angels Gentlemen's Club
3215 King Highway,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The building faces south and it is on the north side of King Highway (aka M-96)
"If you’re looking for the best strip club in the Kalamazoo area, Angels Gentlemen’s Club has the hottest strippers in West Michigan. If you want to find the strip club to visit between Detroit and Chicago, visit Angles [sic] Gentlemen’s Club in Kalamazoo. We have the best dancers in Michigan. Tuesday night is Amateur Night every week at Angels Gentlemen’s Club so you’ll see sexy amateur strippers working hard for your pleasure. Visit us today and see why we are West Michigan’s Best Strip Club and the premier destination for Adult Entertainment."
Hours
Monday-Friday: 11:30 AM - 2 AM
Saturday: 3 PM 2 AM
Sunday: events only
Filet mignon Wednesdays: 11:30 AM to 3 PM $7.99; 3 PM - midnight $9.99
I love this view, but didn't have a chance to properly compose this shot. Those cars weren't going to wait for me.
Portage Muskies Varsity Hockey vs. Mattawan Wildcats, Renbarger Cup, Wednesday 16 February 2022
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Portage Muskie Varsity Hockey vs. Kalamazoo Eaglesi, Wednesday 1 December 2021
Chris Diamondidis
Copyright: Geoffrey M. Miller
To the casual race fan, Jim Gilmore’s face probably wouldn’t stand out in a crowd. But, put him in his team’s famous red-and-white checkered shirt beside Indianapolis 500 legend A.J. Foyt and Gilmore suddenly is an important part of the picture. Although he never got behind the wheel of a car in the Indianapolis 500, Gilmore was a constant at Indy throughout the 1970s. He sponsored A.J. Foyt’s team in 1977, when the Texas legend won his fourth Indianapolis 500. Gilmore's interest in racing began in boyhood, when he built model race cars and tiny gas engines that powered them. Many years later, after working in the family department store and then branching out to run his advertising agency and later owning a chain of radio and TV stations, Gilmore became involved in racing as a way to lessen the pressures of his business dealings. He helped fellow Michigan resident Gordon Johncock get his start in Indy cars in the mid-1960s. Gilmore later sponsored cars owned by Lindsey Hopkins and Clint Brawner and driven by Wally Dallenbach, Mel Kenyon, Jack Brabham, Art Pollard and Jimmy Caruthers. In 1973, Gilmore formed his partnership with Foyt. They signed an original contract that was renewed year after year without either one changing any of the wording. The team wore red-and-white checkered shirts with Jim Gilmore Racing emblazoned over the left pocket. Through thick and thin, Gilmore always had a smile and was available to the media. He was the buffer for Foyt when things went wrong. Gilmore's dedication to auto racing included the presentation each year of the Diana Fell Gilmore Woman Behind the Scenes Award. It honors his late wife. In the 1980s, Gilmore, who was elected mayor of his hometown in 1959, owned the largest Chevrolet dealership in the United States, in Miami. He also owned the family Cadillac/Pontiac/Nissan dealership in Kalamazoo and a Lincoln-Mercury operation in Hialeah, Fla.
He began Gilmore Broadcasting in 1962 with a radio-TV station in Joplin, Mo. He still owned WEHT-TV and Jim Gilmore Productions in Evansville, Ind. Racing souvenirs in Gilmore's home included the car Foyt drove to a closed-course speed record of 217 mph in 1974. It sits in the living room. Another Foyt Coyote hangs from the ceiling of the family room. Walls of his home and offices are covered with thousands of photos of Foyt and clippings of his driver's exploits. Gilmore was killed in a one vehicle accident December 31 2000. According to police reports, Gilmore's pickup truck hit a patch of ice, overturned and slid into a fence. Snow fell through the driver-side window and the sunroof, and Gilmore was covered with snow. He had to be dug out of the snow before his body could be removed from the truck. He was pronounced dead after CPR efforts failed.
A passenger in the truck, Lynn Marie McCarthy, was treated and released from a Kalamazoo hospital. Survivors include four daughters, Bethany Lass of Richland, Mich.; Sydney McElduff of Quincy, Calif.; Elizabeth Bystrycki of Otsego, Mich.; and Ruth Lamp of Ann Arbor, Mich.; son James S. Gilmore III; and 13 grandchildren.
Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo
Site of the former Kalamazoo Brewing Company, Kalamazoo, MI (c.1865-1915). Later the Kalamazoo Creamery. Photo taken November 2011 by Keith Howard.
USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler commissioned by the United States Navy in 1973. She continued to support Navy requirements until 1996 when she was placed in the reserve fleet and later struck.
Kalamazoo was laid down on 1 October 1970 and launched on 1 November 1972 at the shipyard of the General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts. On 11 August 1973 she was commissioned USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6) and placed into service for the fleet. Her first homeport was Mayport Naval Station, Mayport, Florida.
On 16 August 1996 Kalamazoo was decommissioned and placed in reserve at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, Virginia. She was struck from the Navy Directory on 29 October 1998 and, on 15 July 2008, she was sold by the U.S. Maritime Administration to Esco Marine, Brownsville, Texas, for $1,465,726. Kalamazoo was towed out of James River Reserve Fleet on Tuesday, 30 September 2008, en route to ESCO Brownsville.