From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com Tim and Linda Bunyan
Arrived in Detroit at the Wayne County Fairgrounds ($25.00/night with full hookup). after an overnight at Harvest Host Montrose Orchards, Michigan
Signs arriving in Detroit
Although started in Glendale, CA, the state with the most number of Big Boy Restaurant locations is Michigan.
Rose Elizabeth, born: June 2021
Ford Field is a multi-purpose indoor stadium located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, and home of the Detroit Lions in the National Football League.
Detroit: The city started out in the early eighteenth century as a French fort, and went on to become the heart of the U.S. automotive industry, a key to victory during WWII.
We rode our bikes for several days along the Detroit Riverfront. It is scenic, friendly, and vibrant.
The city has given funds toward a rebirth of interesting places where over 3m people visit the riverfront each year.
Robert C. Vlade Park family-friendly sandy beach playscapes
The Ford Headquarters World Center. FORD Motor Company was founded in Detroit in 1903. A single Ford factory, the River Rouge plant, which was located in the suburb of Dearborn employed more than ninety thousand workers.
Detroit became home to Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors.
GM Plaza, Aretha Franklin Amphitheater Milliken State Park
Belle Isle over Macarthur Bridge
The one-way Police Radio Communication Building 1920 era. The radio link was installed for the Detroit Police Department to dispatch patrol cars.
Urban beach lawn, Woodward Fountain
view from Canada.
Woodward Avenue's main artery runs downtown and connects many of the districts built up following the 1805 fire that swept through the town.
Architect Albert Kahn designed the Fisher Building one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the U.S. completed in 1928.
Hotels were renovated and new hotels developed
THE HENRY FORD Museum of American Innovation.
The museum complex is located in Dearborn, Michigan. $38.00 Daily Admission and to the Village.
Indoor-outdoor educational museum park comprises many traditional museums that tell the story of the Ford Motor Company as well as a living history village that chronicles American technological advances.
Presidential Automobile (Reagan Car)
With the invention of the automobile, by 1956 you could drive to Disneyland.,
1949 Trailwind Airstream
Wally Byam introduced the lightweight duralumin trailers and innovated worldwide caravan tours the turned the Airstream's characteristic look into an icon.
pamphlet guide to Knotts Berry Farms
Ford quadricycle in 1890's; he chose to power his car with an internal-combustion engine. Reproduction of Ford's 1896 quadricycle which was his first gasoline-powered vehicle.
The Model T
Practical, roomy, and inexpensive, the Ford Model T became a phenomenon in America and around the world. Model T's were everywhere in the 1010s and 1920s.
The Lincoln Highway
Inventions throughout time are all on display at Ford's Museum
Electric Generator, 1897 supplied power to the Bunker Hill & Sullivan silver mine in Idaho.
Massey-Harris Model 20 Self-Propelled Combine, 1938
Furniture displayed - Ameirca's Finest.
EAMES inventions
GREENFIELD VILLAGE National Historic Landmark 1929 created by Henry Ford 1928 Model A - 1931
Eighty-acre living history area called Greenfield Village. Ride in a real Ford Model T 
reconstructed farmhouse from Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was born in a farmhouse in Springwells Township,. He left home at age 16 to find work in Detroit.
Ride around on the train.
Train stations and turntable
Various transportation around the Outdoor Village Museum (we walked). Many different buildings to see.: Edison Illuminating, Noah Webster House, Loranger Gristmill, Luther Burbank Garden Office, Robert Frost Home, Martha-Mary Chapel
Ford has the real houses, of America's innovators, delivered and reassembled here. This is H.J. Heinz's house.
Thomas Edison's laboratory....the read building delivered here and assembled for all to see while visiting the Village Museum.
The inside features of Thomas Edison's Laboratory.
Like other shopkeepers, Mrs. Cohen lived above her store. Placed here in Greenfield Village
Luther Burbank's (American plant breeder) contributions led him to develop the Russet Burbank potato - popularly known as the Idaho potato.
Poet Robert Frost Home (lived in this house while attending the University of Michigan in the 1920s. Wrote "Spring Pools" here.
Noah Webster's House/American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.
Detroit is a city with an extensive industrial history, but it is also a city that is looking to the future. Gallery Louis Comfort Tiffany: treasure from the Driehaus Collection.
National Historic Landmark downtown Detroit, Michigan 1989
Beyond Van Gogh at TCFR Center, downtown Detroit
"I always think that what we need is sunshine and fine weather and blue air as the most dependable remedy." - Theo van Gogh, Arles, 29 September 1888.
"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day."
Now on our way to Sara's Campground in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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