March 28, 2006

Images from the Calder City

2:19 pm | My Life | Pictures

Otherwise known as the Furniture City, the River City, Gd Rapids, and the Hometown of J. Dub, Grand Rapids is a pretty cool little town. In the last 10 years, the downtown area of Grand Rapids has gone from slum to sleek, from a few scared people wandering from an office building to their car or vice versa to hordes of shoppers, couples, harmless bums and venue-goers ambulating hither and yon in search of urban pleasantries. Grand Rapids is now a walking city, and recently I took to the streets, armed with a camera phone, with a top-secret team of experts. Here’s a few Grand Rapids landmarks that we happened to walk by. If you pay careful attention, you will find a message hidden somewhere in this post.


The Date Tree; containing a tile marked with every year of Grand Rapids history, dating way back to 1790 or something. I don’t know. Tradition mandates that you find your birth year and stand on it. Tradition!
ARP

Gerald R. Ford Museum Spaceman. These days he has a security guard bumbling around at all times to keep people from climbing on him. Now that must be an exciting job.
owns

The Calder! Love it or hate it, it’s only in Grand Rapids.
you.

Me on the Tire Swing. You can’t really see the tire swing, but it’s big and I’m sitting on it. You can see the head of a little brat that I kicked off the swing shortly after the picture was taken. Please note that I do not have, nor ever intend to have, half of a mustache. That’s just lighting.

Comments

RSS feed for comments on this post

vw

Comment on March 28, 2006 @ 2:43 pm

yes, it’s very clear that you do not have a mustache, not even a half of one.

Mark

Comment on March 28, 2006 @ 4:22 pm

I’m a team of experts? You’re either calling me smart or fat… cool pics at any rate.

James

Comment on March 28, 2006 @ 6:53 pm

do the words “top secret” mean anything to you?

Steph

Comment on March 28, 2006 @ 8:34 pm

What about Chuck E Cheese? Didn’t you visit there? That used to be the only reason I went to GR as a kid. Now, we have our own Chuck E Cheese in Muskegon. Hey! I’m a linked commentator. I’m shocked! I really thought you were joking. What is that suspicious #13 next to my name though?

James

Comment on March 28, 2006 @ 9:46 pm

yea so now you need to link to me :) and if you don’t want to have 13 next to your name, you have to comment more!

Chuck

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 2:21 am

I found the secret message… I found it amusing, if not somewhat threatning. :)

Happy B-day, James!

Rachel

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 10:59 am

How many birthdays does James have? More than one IS threatening.

Mark

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 11:19 am

Who was the genius who thought it was James’ birthday, anyway? It’s Loretta’s birthday today, James’ isn’t until May.

James

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 1:18 pm

Yes Mark is finally right. Today is Loretta’s birthday, not mine.

Steph

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 2:05 pm

Ok, SIO linkage will happen on the Exhale site. Something way weird happened earlier today when I attempted to access your totally wicked site. I was rerouted, or something, to the login page for creating a family website. weird!

Jill

Comment on March 29, 2006 @ 10:35 pm

I love your shoe slipping into the Date Tree shot. Very nice, very nice.

The entry just shows how much of GR I have yet to see.

Martha

Comment on April 25, 2006 @ 5:08 pm

Hey! Last summer Terry, Evie, and I visited the Calder and swung on that tire swing…. good memories. :)
GR used to be my hometown too, once upon a time. The fireworks on the river are probably the most exciting thing about the city I remember.

Leave a Comment

Comments are subject to moderation, i.e. if you mess up I'll burn your house down.
Forget about HTML, it looks cool enough already.



SIO Disclaimer - if you put "Name" in the name field, it will be replaced by a legitimate albeit extremely humorous nickname. In the interest of public forum, we recommend that you use your actual name or use whatever scraps of creativity you may have left in your brain to come up with an appropriate and comical nickname of your own.

:

:

:

Close comments window