Michigan Trivia & Tidbits
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The youngest player to win the World Series of Poker Main Event is Joe Cada, of Chesterfield (pop. 37,405), who at age 21 pocketed the $8.5 million first prize at the 40th annual tournament last November.
first appeared: 3/7/2010
Michigan Technological University in Houghton (pop. 7,010) owns Mont Ripley, a popular ski mountain, and offers free lift tickets to its students.
first appeared: 2/21/2010
The Frankenmuth (pop. 4,838) Farmers Market claims to have held the world's first drive-through farmers market last August. Growers sold their produce through windows to people in more than 250 vehicles.
first appeared: 2/7/2010
Kyle Anderson, of Rapid City, reeled in a 50-pound, 8-ounce muskie from Torch Lake, near Traverse City (pop. 14,532), in September and set a state record.
first appeared: 1/24/2010
Full motion flight simulators, amusement park-style rides, a four-dimensional theater and more than 50 rare aircraft celebrate air and space flight at the Air Zoo in Portage (pop. 44,897).
first appeared: 1/10/2010
Dogs and their handlers can earn merit badges for training and service achievements from Dog Scouts of America, founded in 1995 by Lonnie Olson, of St. Helen (pop. 2,993).
first appeared: 12/27/2009
Racecar driver and World War I fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker formed the Rickenbacker Motor Car Co. in Detroit and manufactured cars in the 1920s. The cars bore the symbol of his flying squadron, which depicts a top hat in a ring.
first appeared: 12/13/2009
The first Kmart discount department store opened in 1962 in Garden City (pop. 30,047). The retail chain's roots were planted in 1899 when Sebastian Spering Kresge opened his first five-and-dime store in Detroit.
first appeared: 11/29/2009
A 1,224-pound vanilla cupcake with pink frosting-the world's largest-was baked in August by GourmetGiftBaskets.com for the Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise Classic Car Show, which tours several towns in the Detroit area. Slices were served in exchange for donations to fight breast cancer through the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.
first appeared: 11/15/2009
The nation's oldest ladder company is the Michigan Ladder Co., which has manufactured stepladders and extension ladders since 1901 in Ypsilanti (pop. 22,362).
first appeared: 11/1/2009
When the 1896 Clare (pop. 3,173) City Bakery was threatened with closure in July, the Clare Police Department came to the rescue. Nine police officers bought the bakery and changed the name to Cops & Doughnuts.
first appeared: 10/18/2009
The Cherry Hut has been serving hunks of homemade cherry pie since 1922, when James and Dorothy Kraker opened a roadside pie stand as an outlet for cherries from their orchard. Today, the hut in Beulah (pop. 363) is a full-blown restaurant famous for its cherry pie.
first appeared: 10/4/2009
On Valentine's Day, the post offices in Romeo (pop. 3,721) and Juliette, Ga., team up for a postage cancellation representing the Shakespearean sweethearts who share the towns' names.
first appeared: 9/20/2009
Motorists can't help but slow and take time to admire the picturesque setting and Fallasburg Covered Bridge spanning Flat River near Lowell (pop. 4,013). Signs warn of a "$5 fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk."
first appeared: 9/6/2009
Jim Buist has been cutting hair at Jim's Barber Shop in Kalamazoo (pop. 77,145) for more than 40 years, but more impressive is the fact that he's legally blind.
first appeared: 8/23/2009
Nicknamed "The Big House," Michigan Stadium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor seats 106,201 and is one of the nation's largest stadiums.
first appeared: 8/9/2009
Legendary thoroughbred Seabiscuit was considered a mediocre racehorse until winning his first major stakes race, the Governor's Handicap, at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in September 1936. A statue of the horse, who triumphed in 1938 over Triple Crown winner War Admiral, stands at the fairgrounds.
first appeared: 7/26/2009
—In 1923, Bay City (pop. 36,817) became one of the first cities in the United States to replace all of its streetcars with buses.
first appeared: 7/12/2009
—While studying the states and their flags in her first-grade class, Rebecca Collins-Pfeiffer, of Mount Pleasant (pop. 25,946), wondered why Michigan's flag wasn't flying at the nearby Isabella County Building. The 7-year-old wrote a heartfelt and convincing letter to the county commission and in April helped raise the state and county flags at the building.
first appeared: 6/28/2009
—Marine life artist Robert Wyland, known simply as Wyland, completed his 100th Whaling Wall mural of life-size whales and other ocean life last year. Wyland, who was born in 1956 in Detroit, has painted Whaling Walls in more than 70 cities worldwide.
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first appeared: 6/14/2009
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