Swann's Store, 122 W Grand River, Howell, Michigan - 1982
subject: Stores, Retail
description: Swann's Store was owned by Doug Swann. The store specialized in work clothing, especially Red Wing work shoes.
date: 1982
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

The Country Squire Fireplace Shoppe, 209 W Grand River, Howell, Michigan - 1982
subject: Stores, Retail
description: The Country Squire Fireplace Shoppe was a long-time Howell retail business. It was owned by Tom Snider and Tom Antczak.
date: 1982
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Country Squire Fireplace and Decor Shoppe, 209 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, 1982
subject: Retail trade
description: This is a photograph of the interior of the Country Squire Fireplace and Decor Shoppe, 209 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, 1982. The names of the persons in the picture are unknown.
date: 1982
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Goodnow's Village Shop, Howell, Michigan, 1973
subject: Stores, Retail
description: Photographs of the opening of Goodnow's Village Shop, 209 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, 1973. Its new owners were Jim Turner and Ted and Mary Ellen Shreve. They consolidated Goodnow's, The Village Shop and Dottie's Corner.
date: 1973
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Lud-mor's Shoe Store, Howell, Michigan, 1982
subject: Stores, Retail
description: This is a photograph of the interior of the Lud-mor Shoe Store, 111 East Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, 1982.
date: 1982
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Yax Jewelery Store, Howell, Michigan
subject: Stores, Retail
description: This is a photograph of the Yax Jewelry Store, 108 East Grand River, Howell, Michigan, 1965. The store was owned by Donald H. Yax.
date: 1965
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Hamburg Food Center, Hamburg, Livingston, Michigan - 1976
subject: Supermarkets
description: Photographs, dated 1976, is of the Hamburg Food Center, 10623 Hamburg Road, Hamburg, Michigan.
date: 1976
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Fitzpatrick's Vantown Store, Leroy Township, Ingham County, Michigan, 1973
subject: Markets
description: This is a photograph of the exterior of the storefront for Vantown Store, labeled, "For liquor license - Mason Road - 1973". The view is looking west on Howell-Mason Road and a Sunoco Sign is in view. Vantown, located at the intersection of Howell-Mason Road and Dietz Road, in Leroy township, Ingham county, Michigan. Vantown was named after a man named VanBuren. The Vantown store, 3495 East Howell Road, Webberville, Michigan, was located on the northwest corner of the intersection. In the 1970's was owned by the Fitzpatrick family., and previously owned/operated by the Nemer's, and Truhn's. The store, established about 1901, closed around 2007 and was destroyed by a fire in January 2008. The store once housed a barber shop, gasoline station, phone station, and post office, and served as a meeting spot for local farmers and as a milk depot.
date: 1973
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Young and Pohley's Meat Market, Howell, Michigan
subject: Butcher shops
description: This is a photograph of the interior of a butcher shop, Young & Pohley's Meat Market, Howell, Michigan. They were open during the 1890's and advertised being the premier meat supplier for Livingston County, Michigan. By 1898, it was E. F. Young & Sons Meat Market. This market was located on the south side of the now Bank of Ann Arbor, 101 East Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan. This photograph shows the market prepared for the Christmas and New Year holidays. The exact date and names of people in the photograph are unknown but it is believed to be from Christmas 1910. Read the Livingston Daily Press & Argus December 23, 2002 Article (In Library Use Only) This photograph was also included in the 1976 Howell Bicentennial History and Photographic Supplement.
source: View Livingston Republican December 20, 1894 Ad (in library use only)
date: 1910
rights: No Copyright - United States
format: image/jpeg
type: Image

Grand Opening of Wrigley Supermarket, Grocery Store, Howell, Michigan - 1963
subject: Groceries
description: Wrigley Supermarket, opened in August 1963 at 505 E. Grand River Avenue, on the southeast corner of Grand River Avenue & Fowler Streets, in Howell, Michigan. The grocery store held a Grand Opening and Howell City Mayor Clifton W. Heller snipped a ceremonial ribbon. The Wrigley Supermarket was a 10,000 square foot newly constructed building with a 75 car parking lot. The grocery store featured modern equipment, and mechanical handling, storing, and selling of a great variety of food products. The photographs are from the Open House. The local manager of the Wrigley Supermarket was George Courtright.
date: 1963
rights: Copyright Undetermined
format: image/jpeg
type: Image