The Nankin Township Historical Society

scroll through the pages with the arrows at the middle edges of the book See what happens when I have time to organize things! An article on the DUR interurban system that ran through the area between Detroit and Jackson and locales in-between as featured in the Winter 1971 edition of The Dearborn Historian . Of course, the various rails traversed the entire country but our main concern is the immediate Detroit area. Note the photos of the Westwood stop in Inkster and the few of Eloise among the mostly Dearborn stops.

I'm not sure where I found this Toarmina's Pizza Halloween Fright Fest pamphlet but I'm assuming that it was either inside a large thrift store book or came with a box of papers from an estate sale. In fact, I forgot that I even had this until searching through my stack of "Detroit Times" newspapers. Either way it's from the Wayne-Westland YMCA and looks about as un-scary as every other advert that I've seen for their haunted houses. More scary is the fact that 1998 is now considered VINTAGE. Fright Fest '98 was held at the YMCA Barn at 827 S. Wayne Rd. Tickets were $5 or free with a purchase of a Toarmina's Pizza, the sponsor for the event. Coupons included are for Westland Bowl (5940 N. Wayne Rd.), Glass Unlimited (1335 S. Wayne Rd.), Men on the Move, Keyes Refrigeration, Universal Video (6519 N. Wayne Rd.), My Lady's Florist (930 S. Wayne Rd.), Precision Tune (35404 Ford Road), Rick Allan Music (224 N. Wayne Rd.) and, of course, Toarmina...