Old bus lines

[Jimaz]

... I recall people talking bout it being a thing of that past when i worked at my first b&m job, in the Utica area, at around the age of 14 [[around 95).

Thank you for some of the information....

My memories of that bus stop were from the late '60s. I suspect it was a holdover from before the freeways were built in the '50s. Folks who wanted to go "up north" before the freeways took M53-Van Dyke.

I also recall a taxidermist on the northeast corner of Van Dyke & Hahn. They had an enormous! stuffed polar bear on display. So hunters could drop off their kill there on their way back south.

So now I'm wondering if they allowed hunters to strap a deer carcass on top of the bus. LOL!

There was also a Sweden House and a Colonial bowling alley in the neighborhood. Smitty's Tire was a major source of nuisance mosquitoes.

Weingartz since took over the Colonial Lanes space. There's still a bank vault [[sans door) in the restaurant supply store. Good place to shelter in a tornado!