depressing find
today in rained like crazy! i hope it means spring is official. when i was walking the dog afterward, it had apparently stopped but it was now incredibly foggy, and the smell reminded me of an old resort my family went to for perhaps a decade called pennellwood that was in michigan. technically the smell that i remembered was always a morning dew kinda thing, so the setting was different but, but it smelled similar.
anyway. after getting back inside i started to work some more on my applications but easliy got distracted and decided to google pennellwood. aparently the new owner (who started our last year there) tried spiffing-up/modernizing the place, went bankrupt and is selling the land. through all of this, he razed all the original buildings such as cabins/lodges/dinning halls/etc, built in perhaps the 1920s(?) and tried to spiffy up the place in an effort to make some more money, but it all fell through.
i looked up the address and found it all for sale. i dont recognise anything in the 16 pictues except the watertower.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/10652-Range-Line-Rd_Berrien-Springs_MI_49103_1105540995
theres also a youtube video by some guy of the rec hall after it was demolished, with only the chiminney and the tiled floor with the shuffle board lines and the resort's name. that really did me in... so i put in a dumb little comment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2asUEoCvbL8&feature=related
i found this all incredibly depressing since i had spent nearly every summer untill 1999 at that resort, and having so many memories attached to that location. i thought it would have gone on much longer like it already had. i hate finding out stuff like this over the internet. what a let down.
on the upside, i was researching some gwar... (awkward transition)... so that i know just what im getting into before the actual concert. aparently there is some funny ass shit on lastfm. its the video links farther down, not the audio clips. http://www.last.fm/music/GWAR you gotta love a guy whos name is balsac and his bandmate has triceratop heads for sholder pads.
anyway. after getting back inside i started to work some more on my applications but easliy got distracted and decided to google pennellwood. aparently the new owner (who started our last year there) tried spiffing-up/modernizing the place, went bankrupt and is selling the land. through all of this, he razed all the original buildings such as cabins/lodges/dinning halls/etc, built in perhaps the 1920s(?) and tried to spiffy up the place in an effort to make some more money, but it all fell through.
i looked up the address and found it all for sale. i dont recognise anything in the 16 pictues except the watertower.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/10652-Range-Line-Rd_Berrien-Springs_MI_49103_1105540995
theres also a youtube video by some guy of the rec hall after it was demolished, with only the chiminney and the tiled floor with the shuffle board lines and the resort's name. that really did me in... so i put in a dumb little comment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2asUEoCvbL8&feature=related
i found this all incredibly depressing since i had spent nearly every summer untill 1999 at that resort, and having so many memories attached to that location. i thought it would have gone on much longer like it already had. i hate finding out stuff like this over the internet. what a let down.
on the upside, i was researching some gwar... (awkward transition)... so that i know just what im getting into before the actual concert. aparently there is some funny ass shit on lastfm. its the video links farther down, not the audio clips. http://www.last.fm/music/GWAR you gotta love a guy whos name is balsac and his bandmate has triceratop heads for sholder pads.