I had a lot of time today before I needed to at Metro Airport for my flight home. Since I was bored, I headed out early to check out some places I used to live in the western Metro Detroit area in the 1980s. I took M-59 as a back way to reach Union Lake Road and Commerce Township. I was surprised to see the Dairy Queen at Union Lake Road and Cooley Lake Road I used to go to in the early 1980s but the Kentucky Fried Chicken (before it served crappy food and was called KFC) my family used to frequent has been replaced by a shopping center. I turned off Union Lake Road onto Willow Road which only had houses on Union Lake in the Mid-1980s, I recall some of the neighborhoods present now just being empty fields and marsh lands. I used to live in a neighborhood called Willow Farm which was probably built in the late 1970s/early 1980s. The park I used to frequent as a kid was present but was much less elaborate than the 1980s. I used to ...
Because every road has a story.