Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: town

In its prime, Little Venice wasn't much--a motel, a general store, a handful of houses, and a great view of Michigan prairie. Not a canal in sight, though. Venice is now well past its prime. Not a proper ghost town, but a place which hints of failed ambitions.

Little Venice, Michigan; on M-50 not far from Mulliken and Sunfield. (If those are your local "big towns," you're in a really small place; neither has more than 800 inhabitants.) The Siesta had some pretensions to being a resort when I first found the place, though there's really nothing close-by to call a tourist attraction. Now a rural apartment complex.

Another small town in Michigan's Eaton County. I "explained" Hoytville the other day . Thought I'd share a couple pictures which show it better. This one shows the view from Mulliken Road, across a field from south of town. The houses run perhaps a half-mile east from this road on Saginaw Highway; there are also some houses on Mulliken Road. Perhaps a third of the town's structures show in this photo. A couple look like they've been there for a century or more--the settlement dates from before the Civil War--but most are more recent.

Chester, Michigan. I seem to be out photographing really small towns, this week.