Lenawee County, Michigan: Highway, Swimming, Baseball, Kite Flying (1930)
1930 · Ephemeral film · 10 min
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The Irish Hills Towers, referred also as the Twin Towers, are two wooden observation tourist towers constructed along US-12 in the Irish Hills region in northern Lenawee County, Michigan. In the early 1920s, the Michigan Observation Company sought places of high elevation to erect fifty foot high enclosed platforms to boost tourism. In southern Michigan, a tower was placed atop Bundy Hill in Hillsdale County, Michigan and officials sought a knoll in the heart of the Irish Hills in Lenawee…
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★★★★ · Doing it for the home team. · Spuzz · 2012-07-02
Good home movie here. Fitst, we do have some boring driving shots. Not so good, boring and somewhat clunky. Then we have some beach scenes. Holy cow, check out that.. what I want to call a Mankini. was that fashionable in the 1930s?? It's ugly! Then up to a twin tower tourist attraction. Yessiree we're pretty high! (dad doesn't seem to interested), some baseball scenes follow where the catcher seems to catch one where the sun don't shine, and then some kite flying! Pretty good assortment of scenes here.