Mulliken Downtown, 1997

Downtown Mulliken on a summer day in 1997. My notes for this photo believe it was taken Saturday evening during the town's annual block party, called Homecoming, though things really don't look busy enough to support that notion. Regardless, this is a fair image of Main Street for most of the last decade.

A few notes follow, in case someone is trying to sort these things out.

All the buildings on the left (north) side of Main Street back up to the CSX (originally Pere Marquette Railroad) main line across southern Michigan.

On the left:

* You can't see Mulliken/Merrified Hardware (now CCD Engineering) or the old barber shop, which are to my immediate left.
* The small brick building's the post office.
* The white building's the new library.
* The next building's Creative Taxidermy.
* The large brick building is the clubhouse for Brothers of the Ring.
o The old Village Hall, which is tucked in beside BOTR, is difficult to see.
o The house beyond that is completely hidden in this view.
* The next brick structure is the end of the town's recycling center--before my time this seems to have been a lumber yard.
* Not there yet in '97, but the new Village Hall is between the recycling center and the elevator.
* The (then) still intact and functioning Mulliken Elevator dominates the view at the far end of Main. As I've noted in the past, this set of structures is now being dismantled.

On the right:

* The yard in the foreground is part of a rental property.
* The two storefronts beyond the yard housed a beauty parlor and a veterinarian's office at the time. Both businesses are now gone, though the building is still occupied.
* The next two storefronts, and the courtyard between them, house Farmer's Steakhouse (and the Sain antique business).
* Beyond Farmer's is the (new) fire station/township hall, but it's not visible from here.
* The white frame building is the Masonic Temple.
* Beyond that is Mulliken's downtown park....


Camera: Chinon Genesis III