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Many of these cards were purchased on ebay, some were donated by classmates, and others were shamelessly plagiarized from unsuspecting ebay sellers who were demanding a king's ransom for them.
Cards in this gallery are from the 1940 decade. Most pre-date our memories but many of the scenes remained pretty much unchanged into the fifties and early sixties. A few of the cards couldn't be accurately dated so we put them here because they appeared fortyish.
Here's how to view them; click on the Thumbnail Panel numbers to select which set of thumbnails that you would like to view, then just click on the thumbnail image and the full-sized image will be displayed below. Postcard descriptions and captions will be displayed at the bottom of the full-sized image. To select a different decade, click on the Postcards icon in the upper right-hand area of the page and select a different one:
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Postmarked August 3, 1946
Postmarked Autust 4, 1946
ChatGPT - US-27 itself existed long before it was paved all the way to Gaylord, but the major paving and modernization of the route into a continuous hard-surfaced highway happened gradually in the early 20th century.
Key dates:
* By the 1920s, US-27 (then earlier designated as M-14 before the federal highway system) had been improved enough to provide a continuous north–south route through central and northern Michigan.
* In 1921, downtown streets in Gaylord were officially paved.
* During the 1930s–1950s, more sections north of Grayling toward Gaylord were widened and paved to modern highway standards as automobile travel increased.
* The biggest transformation came in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when US-27 north of Grayling was replaced by what became I-75.
* The freeway section near Grayling opened in 1961, and by the end of that year the old US-27 segment between Grayling and Gaylord had been turned over to local control because I-75 was taking over the corridor. -
So if you mean:
* “When did a paved US-27 first reach Gaylord?” — essentially by the 1920s.
* “When was the modern highway/freeway corridor completed to Gaylord?” — the key I-75 replacement section arrived in 1961.
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