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Michigan's security is very lax along the border with Indiana. A week ago (March 25), I made a deliberate incursion fairly deep into the state without first seeking permission of any of the Michigan forumers. I refuse to apologize, and further, I'll probably do it again, unless somebody gets their butt over to Constantine and gets some photos of those stunning Italianate Victorians with the belvederes, right along the main drag.

 

Here's one of the places I saw that I liked very much. Allegan is the county seat of Allegan County. The city dates to the 1830s and has a population of about 5,000. It has a fair-sized and reasonably active downtown that looks like it once was substantially larger. These photos were taken on a Sunday afternoon, and a few business, mostly bars, were open.

 

I pretty much expected this after I saw an 1889 cornerstone in the front yard of the historical museum.

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Wishful thinking may be embellishing my memory of this view, but I used to drive through Allegan from time to time in the 1960s, and it seems to me that I recall buildings long this stretch coming right down to the water's edge so that their back sides almost made a wall along the river.

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:weird: Vagueness, anyone?

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Contrary to what one might think, these devices are not similar to bicycles. They're ten thousand times louder, and there were quite a few of them.

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On the other hand, here's an example of outright blatant disregard for plainly-defined law and order. Where are the cops when you need them?

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WOW! Looks pretty impressive with the water nearby and that "lived-in" feel. Thanks for the photos!

Looks like a charming little town, and pretty much intact.  Thanks!

Nice photos, I'll have to go here someday.

I see dark babies!

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

Allegan's a great place, to be sure...

 

Small world; my Aunt used to be the choral director at Allegan High School.  Allegan lost its great Richardson Romanesque courthouse in the 1950s -- replaced with that glorified factory/slash/courthouse -- which galvanized public opinion in favor of preservation back before it was the fashion.

 

Not that its the fashion now.

 

Thomas/presOhio

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She has her legs spread for you!

 

Very nice town and lots of charming and unique signs and buildings!

She has her legs spread for you!

 

It's wasted on me, but I thought I'd throw it in for the nearly two-thirds of the forumers who are hetero men -- and the one lesbian, too, maybe. I suppose now on the next warm weekend there'll be a bunch of urbanohio geeks hanging around beside the river at Allegan, hoping for a glimpse.  :roll:

 

She has her legs spread for you!

 

It's wasted on me, but I thought I'd throw it in for the nearly two-thirds of the forumers who are hetero men -- and the one lesbian, too, maybe. I suppose now on the next warm weekend there'll be a bunch of urbanohio geeks hanging around beside the river at Allegan, hoping for a glimpse.  :roll:

 

 

 

Great pics,

but I'ma girl ya know.  :lol:

and no, I am not a lesbian.

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