Michigan sightings/memorabilia in odd places
I get updated real estate listings in my area, not for any particular reason other than to see what's going on and what's for sale. This morning I saw a $40,000,000 listing which of course is absolutely insane, then I clicked on the images and saw a familiar winged helmet on televisions (maybe fake televisions for staging?). Here's the link. Link.
There's also a University of Michigan block M flag proudly flying in the rafters of the employee bar at the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone National park.
Where else have you come across Michigan prominently and semi-permanently (meaning not just someone wearing a t-shirt or holding a sign that they carried with them for the photo-op) represented?
October 19th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
That's a nice and large house, don't get me wrong, but I have seen much larger for far less. It's amazing what value property is given simply because it's by water.
EDIT: Holy fuck...that room with all of those televisions. I like that they basically turned that into a full service bar.
October 19th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
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October 19th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
It's a Kilwin's and it's awesome!
October 19th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
The one near our winter place in Delray...OMG. A much better version of Stucchi's.
October 19th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
October 19th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
On a cold afternoon, after a day of skiing, we stumbled upon Brown Dog Pizza.
It's part owned by Jeff Smokevitch, who played on the 1997 team.
The walls are full of great memorabilia.
Great pizza, too.
October 19th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
Whomever owns that must be Irish, way too much wood panel to be anything but.
October 19th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
Wow, I learned a new stereotype today, thanks to you...Cheers!
October 19th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
October 19th, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
I was just thinking, "beautiful woodwork," .... and I hold an Irish passport. Jaysus!
October 19th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
I had been put away in a prison in Van Diemen's Land, a soggy cell near the cay, where the high tide rose well above we the prisoners' waists, and the low tide revealed a plentitude of rodential corpses and piscian offal - or, as we called it, breakfast. I had been convicted for making art forgeries, quite skillfully, and selling them to hapless visitors on ports-of-call, though I was guilty of much worse. While in prison, my artistic abilities ultimately caught the attention of the warden's wife, and I became ... intimate with her, and through her sponsorship, familiar with the warden. I was brought into the warden's house once a week for oil classes, and the warden's wife took private lessons while the warden took laudunum and smoked opium.
One night, before I was spirited back to my shoal-side cell, I stole a last glimpse of the warden's wife's shoulder, and there was a birthmark in the exact shape of a block M. It was perfect, and surprising, since it was 1820 and the university had not yet been established.
So that was an unexpected sighting.
October 19th, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^
I enjoyed that. Thank you.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
It would have been surprising nonetheless since women were not admitted until 1870.
Great story. +1 to you!
October 19th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^
Awwwhhh crap. When you're over 240 years old you forget things. (And now I can't fix the error - much like I can't fix some of the errors that brought me to that watery hellhole in the first place.)
October 19th, 2015 at 10:04 AM ^
This was several years ago, but I was amused by it - there was someone in downtown Los Angeles with a Michigan-themed bicycle, mostly blue but with maize wheel guards, chain and handlebars and a block "M" affixed to the front of it. Not sure who and we were walking by as it was going by us, but I thought it was pretty cool.
There's actually a Pinterest group that catalogs this stuff as well as the usual flag / sign photo ops from alums around the world - someone from the Alumni Association runs it, I think.
October 19th, 2015 at 10:04 AM ^
Is that a house or a convention center?
October 19th, 2015 at 10:11 AM ^
Is it possible to load images on here from a computer file? All I see when I click "Image" is a way to put a URL
October 19th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
Nice house, but too many neighboring homes adjoining the property. No way it goes for more than $35M.
October 19th, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
Just started watching the series (binge watched all yesterday to take my mind of things) but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the Wolverines mentioned. In the episode where two characters get into a bar fight, the audio from the TV in the back ground is a Michigan hockey game and even has a long GOOOOAL MICHIGAN WOLVERINES to conclude the scene.
October 19th, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^
One of the Tanzanian guides for our group on Kilimanjaro a couple years ago was wearing a Michigan T-shirt which I thought was both cool and weird. It was one of those things where the colors were pretty close but not excatly right and the font was a little off. Kinda like how there's little kids in Djibouti wearing "Chicago Chargers" Super Bowl T-shirts but quite not as crazy.
October 19th, 2015 at 12:19 PM ^
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October 20th, 2015 at 4:58 PM ^
Michigan bar in Alsace. Come for the fondue and stay for the game!
