Comments on: A Trip to the Theatre http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/calumet-then-and-now/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:58:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jack hudson http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/calumet-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-541 jack hudson Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:35:10 +0000 http://coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/13/calumet-then-and-now/#comment-541 the villiage office building was construted before the theater . the area where the stop sign is show is the where the theater was build starting in 1898. i live in the ryan building shown in the photos and am able to look out my window and see the theater, and what a grand view it is the villiage office building was construted before the theater . the area where the stop sign is show is the where the theater was build starting in 1898. i live in the ryan building shown in the photos and am able to look out my window and see the theater, and what a grand view it is

]]> By: explorer http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/calumet-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-540 explorer Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:14:01 +0000 http://coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/13/calumet-then-and-now/#comment-540 Joe - I never stopped to think if the depot picture was from the opposite side (since the building in generally symmetric). I had just assumed someone took it from Oak. I have also heard about the poor shape the depot is now in and I really don't know if its able to be saved now. I've seen a lot of old photos showing the post office in various places, like you mentioned. It always seemed odd. I had thought the PO was always in a government building. Thanks for the name of the building, I'll add it to the post. Thanks for the great comments, whenever someone adds more to the story it just adds to the site. Keep it up! Joe – I never stopped to think if the depot picture was from the opposite side (since the building in generally symmetric). I had just assumed someone took it from Oak. I have also heard about the poor shape the depot is now in and I really don’t know if its able to be saved now.

I’ve seen a lot of old photos showing the post office in various places, like you mentioned. It always seemed odd. I had thought the PO was always in a government building. Thanks for the name of the building, I’ll add it to the post.

Thanks for the great comments, whenever someone adds more to the story it just adds to the site. Keep it up!

]]> By: Joe Pasconen http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/calumet-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-539 Joe Pasconen Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:04:51 +0000 http://coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/13/calumet-then-and-now/#comment-539 I don't mean to hog the comment box, but I just wanted to mention that the post office in Calumet has moved around quite a bit. In years past (pre-Depression era federal projects), it was common for post offices to occupy rented commercial space. Off the top of my head, I seem to recall that the Calumet post office was at the Union Building; where Rowe Furniture is now, next to the insurance office; in the Ryan Block, as pictured; and finally in its own building where the Ryan Livery used to be. (The post office in Laurium still occupies rented space, in the State Savings Bank Building - it was just down the street in the far west end of the First National Bank Building prior to that.) I don’t mean to hog the comment box, but I just wanted to mention that the post office in Calumet has moved around quite a bit. In years past (pre-Depression era federal projects), it was common for post offices to occupy rented commercial space. Off the top of my head, I seem to recall that the Calumet post office was at the Union Building; where Rowe Furniture is now, next to the insurance office; in the Ryan Block, as pictured; and finally in its own building where the Ryan Livery used to be. (The post office in Laurium still occupies rented space, in the State Savings Bank Building – it was just down the street in the far west end of the First National Bank Building prior to that.)

]]> By: Joe Pasconen http://www.coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/calumet-then-and-now/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Joe Pasconen Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:58:46 +0000 http://coppercountryexplorer.com/2007/04/13/calumet-then-and-now/#comment-538 Great old photos. I love the cutter pulled up alongside the depot. It's hard to tell though whether the historic view is from Oak Street looking west before the door was added on the east end, or from the west looking east before the luggage storage shed was added on the west end - ?? The cupola and the eaves and the roof over the platform were all removed within the last couple of years, in what I think was an unnecessarily heavy-handed attempt at roof stabilization. It seems so often things like that disappear around here and never come back - like the belfry on the Calumet Theatre, below. (Though I am still hopeful, in both cases.) I understand the major structural problem with the depot now has to do with the weight of the hipped roof forcing the courses of brick in the outside walls to separate. . . . Great old photos. I love the cutter pulled up alongside the depot. It’s hard to tell though whether the historic view is from Oak Street looking west before the door was added on the east end, or from the west looking east before the luggage storage shed was added on the west end – ?? The cupola and the eaves and the roof over the platform were all removed within the last couple of years, in what I think was an unnecessarily heavy-handed attempt at roof stabilization. It seems so often things like that disappear around here and never come back – like the belfry on the Calumet Theatre, below. (Though I am still hopeful, in both cases.) I understand the major structural problem with the depot now has to do with the weight of the hipped roof forcing the courses of brick in the outside walls to separate. . . .

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