| #1340895 in eBooks | 2014-08-26 | 2014-08-26 | File type: PDF||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great descriptions and photos brought the people and the area to life|By Jennifer Marsik Friess|Karen's storytelling makes me regret the times I drove by the Ford-Wyoming and never drove in. As a Michigan native, I have vague memories of going to the drive-in theater in Owosso in our PJs. I can't decide what I liked better: Walking through the history of the Ford-Wyoming, or re|About the Author|Karen Dybis is a metro Detroit writer who has blogged for Time"? magazine and worked the business desk at the Detroit News. She was born in Bad Axe (where she saw her first drive-in movie in the back of a Suburban), raised in Romeo and is proud
Shortly after World War II, three Dearborn brothers bought a vacant parcel to build a drive-in theater. Local groups opposed them, fearing such a place would elicit "immoral behavior." But the Clark family persevered to see its movie palace become a Metro Detroit mainstay, hosting celebrities, rock stars and a never-ending line of families with kids in footie pajamas. A handshake transferred ownership to movie magnate Charles Shafer and his business partner, Bill Clark, ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Ford-Wyoming Drive-In, The: Cars, Candy & Canoodling in the Motor City (Landmarks) | Karen Dybis. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
