NEW: Muskegon MI, 1930-1997

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NEW: Muskegon MI, 1930-1997

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Western Michigan concludes (for now) with the bleakness that is Muskegon:

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Re: NEW: Muskegon MI, 1930-1997

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530 Whitehall Road wins this city's Frankenstein award. It's a 1960s-era Kroger store that was expanded outwardly and laterally into a Superstore and given an ultra-freaky, flattened version of the familiar Superstore facade! The location was also listed as Plumb's before Kroger came around, and Plumb's after Kroger left. Very strange...
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Yes, the Whitehall store is an odd one. I found it odd that Kroger had actually taken over one store from a local chain, which was not really their M.O. at the time.

Unrelated: I've been reading the sad story of Muskegon Mall today. Essentially, Muskegon bulldozed most of its downtown commercial district in the 1970s to build a mall that was rather successful for 10-15 years, but then was itself torn down, leaving the bleak and hellscape that is today's downtown Muskegon. I don't imagine it will ever really recover.

More: http://www.muskegon-mi.gov/cresources/d ... istory.pdf
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