Roaming Through Michigan
A short tourism documentary on Northern Michigan c. 1949 as part of James A. Fitzpatrick's "TravelTalks" series. Includes footage of Spikehorn Meyer, Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, Mackinac Island, Traverse City, and other places.
Channel: Travel
Uploaded: February 8, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Author: UncleHoot
Length: 00:08:49
Rating: 4.95
Views: 186776
Tags: Sleeping Michigan Bear Mackinac Dunes Meyer Spikehorn
Video Comments:
muunlitr (January 8, 2009 at 4:34 am)
Hi All - Uncle Spike, actually my uncle, seen in this video. I only met him once with my mom when she took me to visit at 5 yrs old. Well, I'm in my sixties now and still remember his clear sky blue eyes and those bears, and the beautiful place where he lived. So many bears that I couldn't even count them. The closest to being a hermit. What a guy, my uncle Spike.
rexandlef (January 3, 2009 at 5:49 pm)
Old good America eh? lolIf youre a tourist whats the best place to go in Michigan?
UncleHoot (January 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm)
Having lived my whole life in Michigan, I've always felt that the best of Michigan is north of Clare. Clare is known as "The Gateway to the North", and "Up North" is where we all go in the summer.That's not to say that there aren't some nice places to the south, but the beauty is in the north. The south is mostly cities and flat farmland. I currently live in the middle of the flat farmland, and while I enjoy it, I'd rather be "up north". :)
norst4wkkd (December 30, 2008 at 6:25 am)
Not really...I'm good looking. I know how to spell too! Excuse me, I have to go tidy up some trash that blew in from across the lake. Must be from all those supermodel type people who live on the other side of that bridge. Dang. It's stuck in my pine trees...
puroze89 (December 30, 2008 at 3:58 am)
brett speaks the true people
Brettwbeyer14 (December 28, 2008 at 11:40 pm)
so you're saying once you go from st ignis to mackinaw city you go imediately from pine forests to debrees. the only part of michigan that is bad is innercity detroit, flint, saginaw, and the south part of lansing. the up is beautiful the people up there are ugly
ledeuxmachina (December 19, 2008 at 8:34 am)
i am from michigan and this is a crock of B.S. and f*ck all you little post-back floozies
ngeorge62 (December 13, 2008 at 5:07 pm)
hartford conn. is ruled by gangs.think it's bad in any michigan city, go to hartford. if your lucky you won't get attacked by some m/f gang
jlogan2664 (December 11, 2008 at 6:20 pm)
My degree is in accounting and finance and I make over $100k a year which I would never make in the UP. I love Michigan and think it's the most beautiful state in the country but the UP is not the God's country the small-minded, illiterate isolationists think it is.
timetoboogie (December 11, 2008 at 6:14 pm)
I am guessing that your college degree is not in English comp. or sociology!
jlogan2664 (December 10, 2008 at 11:59 pm)
I spent the first 22 years of my life in the UP and the day after I graduated from college I pointed my car south to get away from the small-minded redneck mentality of people like you. I know more people in the UP who are on welfare because they refuse to leave "God's country" to look for work than I do trolls. Not to mention the UP has the highest rate of alcholism per capita of any area of the country. Drunk, backwoods rednecks. Doesn't sound like God's country to me.
viktorkiam (December 8, 2008 at 1:22 pm)
amen....now she's going to Washington...God help us!!
Shikazaku (December 8, 2008 at 2:53 am)
Why does everyone in the 1940's sound like there nostirls are stapled together?
kirkbzzz123 (December 7, 2008 at 12:17 am)
Nice username buddy!! I'm a Kirk too!
jep852 (December 3, 2008 at 1:31 pm)
No motors of any kind on Island, Horses and bicycles only.
norst4wkkd (December 3, 2008 at 6:20 am)
Yes, well...I really don't think people from Alabama would appreciate that comment from you. And FYI, it's Louisiana that has parishes, instead of counties, not Alabama. Unless you meant church parishes, then of course I understand. But, that also would not apply to me since I do not attend any church because why..? Organized religion is another form of CONTROL! Hahahahaha! Hope your ten percent to the parish- er, church- is doing some good, blessed one. Thanks for hiking, glad you left! Bye-ee!
tasha122277 (December 2, 2008 at 2:45 pm)
I went hiking up in the UP last year and was blessed to not meet any small minded hicks like you. Most people of the UP are extremely warm and intelligent. And a lot of their families started out from LP and I don't think they'd appreciate being called trash. People like you belong in Alabama debating which parish has more virgins.
norst4wkkd (November 25, 2008 at 5:56 am)
Oh, I'd be just fine. I "pay my own way" anyway, brother. My state doesn't take care of me. I do. Taxes are just another form of control by our over-authoritive society. Anarchy! Anarchy! Yaaayyyyy!!! There are always deer and fish to eat for me :D
noelbuckley1 (November 24, 2008 at 4:20 am)
Yeah right!!! The big 3 fail, everybody is out of work "below the bridge", so nobody pays taxes and you will have to pay your own way!!!!!
norst4wkkd (November 24, 2008 at 4:08 am)
The U.P. is the only good place to be in MI. You can have all that trash below the bridge. I hope GM and Ford fail, so all the trolls will have to actually WORK for a living, quit coming to hunt in God's country and treat locals like dirt. Tourism will diminish, forcing people to leave Upper MI, freeing up even more space for people who don't need big cities. Please, oh please! One last thing: How 'bout dem Lions, eh? LOL!! Go Packers!!
Martaan66 (November 21, 2008 at 4:04 pm)
Michigan is awesomely beautiful...too bad the unions have ruined it economically. Grandholm hasn't helped either!
Jeri38 (November 13, 2008 at 8:59 pm)
They made this video a few years before the Mackinaw Bridge was built. I like Michigan but its cold.
mkerwin1 (November 11, 2008 at 11:35 pm)
at 5:13 - "By excluding all forms of motorized vehicles"....just as a speed boat goes by...LOL
veeshead (November 11, 2008 at 3:43 am)
Spikehorn Meyers,the original Grizzly Man!And his bear family didn't even eat him.
suicideparlor (November 10, 2008 at 11:06 pm)
Shout out to Whitmore Lake and Hamburg, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor ! The Southwest