Straight Farmhouse Museum

05/31/2026

Carmack Appliance Closing Storefront after being in business since the 1950's
32431 Ford Rd.
2017

05/31/2026

Big Daddy's Gym/Garden City Moose
29135 and 29137 Ford Rd.
2007

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

On this date in Garden City History: City Gets Electricity!
Garden City Awakening/Plan Big Day In Garden City
Dedication of the Lighting System article from
May 1927. From Detroit Free Press

Come to the Garden City Awakening article
Garden City News 5-30-1927, reprinted in the Observer in the 1980's

05/30/2026

Garden City, somewhere around Ford and Middlebelt
1924
Scattered frame houses, and there was no electricity until 1927, the bringing of city lighting to Garden City necessitated over 1800 poles and an expenditure of $60,000. The lighting system, completed by Detroit Edison Company, extends over 82 miles of streets in Garden City subdivisions. Bringing electricity for the first time for home lighting, cooking, and other purposes for about 300 families.
City water. In some areas, attempts to sink wells resulted in only gas or brackish water being found, and homeowners had to rely on the nearest farmer's well. The year 1929 saw action to obtain water mains. On June 15, an election was held on a proposition to sell $274,000 worth of bonds in order to lay 12-inch mains on the section line roads. The nearest supply was Joy and Telegraph. This election carried 315 to 92.
In 1932, the taxpayers approved the creation by the Village Commission of six special assessment districts to distribute water on most of the residential streets. Not all people with a main in front of their houses felt they could afford a tap-in service. For such cases, the Village connected taps to a few fire hydrants and thus allowed people to fill their own pails, tubs, or milk cans.

05/29/2026

Garden City High School's First Football Squad
The first Garden City High School Panthers football team was coached by Mr. Cosens and Mr. Walker.
1950

05/29/2026

Kmart Store #4000
29600 Ford Rd
1982

05/28/2026

On this date in 1944. Garden City lost one of its sons
Harold R. Soulliere
I haven't been able to find any information about Sgt. Soulliere's time in Garden City. He was listed in the book Garden City Chronicles as being from Garden City.
Service # 36127568
Rank Sergeant, U.S. Army
Unit 6 34th Field Artillery Battalion
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death May 28, 1944
Buried Plot I Row 3 Grave 29
Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Nettuno, Italy

05/27/2026

Community Corner: This week's question
Garden City Observer
1991

05/27/2026

Headquartered in what is known as the Boy Scout cabin, the Ford-Drake Scout Memorial marked its 50th anniversary.
1524 Middlebelt Rd.
1992