Own The Irving Gilmore Mansion in Kalamazoo For Less Than $450K
It would be difficult to get more Kalamazoo than Irving Gilmore. His father, James F. Gilmore founded the Gilmore Brothers Department Store. Gilmore Brothers was open in Kalamazoo for over a century before closing in 1999. After the senior Gilmore died in 1908, his mother, Carrie Sherwood Gilmore married W.E. Upjohn, the founder of Upjohn Pharmaceuticals. Irving Gilmore founded the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Western Michigan University has the Irving S. Gilmore Theatre. You do not get more Kalamazoo than the Gilmores and the Upjohns.
The Irving Gilmore mansion, a couple of blocks from the heart of downtown Kalamazoo is up for sale. The asking price is only $429,900. No extra charge for the history that comes with it.
As seen from wooden steps, a sign at Weko Beach in Bridgman warns hikers to stay off of the fragile dune. A treacherous ice shelf forms on Lake Michigan, but you can see still open water from shore. Climbing the shelf can be fatal because of trap doors in the uneven ice.
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Go Behind the Scenes at the Gilmore Car Museum
This free guided tour will take you to places generally closed to the public and give you a peek at parts of the vast historic car collection that no one sees.
The name Gilmore has a rich Kalamazoo history and the past is kept alive at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners. It is North America s largest auto museum, with a collection of over 400 vehicles. Like any museum, not everything can be on display at once; there are many artifacts, exotic items and exhibits that are tucked away behind the scenes. Tuesdays this Winter, you can get exclusive access to view portions of Gilmore s car and motorcycle collections that are typically unavailable to the public during winter months.
If you love old cars and want to know how to drive one of the most iconic ones, we have some good news for you!
Obviously, technology in the car industry has become so much more advanced since the days of the Model T.Some cars feel like you re driving a dang iPhone.which is why there is actually a special driver s training you have to take in order to be able to operate it at all.
Well, according to MLive, you can take a course dedicated to navigating an antique vehicle that literally has no gas pedal, fuel gauge or speedometer.