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South Channel Light, 1955?

Fabricate-r View Member Profile	Jan 6 2010, 09:48 AM Post #1
Testing the waters Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 3-January 10 From: Harrison Twp. Member No.: 10802 Home Port: Harrison Twp. Boat Type:'85 Wellcraft 2900 Express Boat Name: Lotsa' Doe!	This is a scan from a January, 1956 copy of Rudder magazine. It is the Boat Show issue from that year, so these pics would have been taken in the summer of '55. The scan isn't that great, but the 24' Sedan Cruiser has what appears to be one of the South Channel Lights in the background, and the top of the lighthouse looks like it is still complete. This post has been edited by Fabricate-r: Jan 6 2010, 10:00 AM Attached File(s) SCL.JPG ( 63.44K ) Number of downloads: 13 1956_Chris_Crafts.JPG ( 279.13K ) Number of downloads: 46

Capn Ken View Member Profile	Jan 6 2010, 01:03 PM Post #2
LSCN Pirate Group: Members Posts: 847 Joined: 4-September 02 From: Shelby Twp, Mi Member No.: 159 Home Port: Sassy Marine, Algonac Boat Type:1973 31' Silverton Sportfisherman (33'LOA) Boat Name: "Manitou" (Dinghy is "Minitou")	Back in the early 70's, when I started boating in LSC, the SC light was still "complete", with the steel lantern room still recognizable... but the glass was gone by then. -------------------- Cap'n Ken

River Passages View Member Profile	Jan 6 2010, 08:14 PM Post #3
LSCN Pirate Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: 4-July 07 From: Macomb County Member No.: 5768 Home Port: Up North Boat Type:69 Chrysler Fury Tri-hull Boat Name: Knot Fore Sail	The roof and uprights of the front range tower were removed sometime around 1970 by the US Coast Guard when a solar-powered nav light was installed there. The roof and uprights would have apparently obstructed the solar panel that was put in at that time. Apparently, the sections of the front lantern room roof were not entirely removed from the site. In the fall of 1995, three 200 pound, pie-shaped sections of the cast iron roof for the front tower's missing lantern room were located on the lake bottom and recovered by Michigan Marine Salvage of Harrison Township, Michigan and divers from the Macomb County Sheriff's Department Dive Team under permit from the state. There is a possibility that other pieces are still out there. The lantern room on the rear tower was removed and restored in its entirety a couple years ago. All of this is in the book that I am working on touching up right now. Hoping to have it done soon so we can get it published in the near future. This post has been edited by SOSCLhistorian: Jan 6 2010, 08:16 PM -------------------- "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." --- Richard Nickel (1928-1972), "Killed in Action rescuing Chicago's architectural treasures." The ingredients of bungled, amateurish so-called "historic preservation" : "Arrogance - The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too." "Ignorance - It's amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they're going." "Incompetence - When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do." "Teamwork - A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction." "Mediocrity - It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late." --- Despair.com Friends don't let friends support the Packard Motor Car Foundation and Packard Proving Grounds. If you support them, you are certainly no friend of mine (see above). A real museum is more than slapping lipstick on a pig and putting valuable furniture, pictures, ephemera, cars and engines in unheated, unremediated, superficially "restored" buildings for untrained guides to show off with their note cards to unknowing guests and their children. Don't be fooled by this amateurish farce. Just "Ask the man who knows them."

GaryDebs View Member Profile	Feb 10 2010, 10:39 PM Post #4
Supporting LSCN and SOSCL Group: Moderators Posts: 9439 Joined: 28-June 02 From: New Baltimore Member No.: 272 Home Port: NB	to cool! -------------------- Visit SOSCL's Web page Guess Who's Back! Questions about the lights or SOSCL... Email sosclsales@comcast.net

Away Point View Member Profile	Feb 10 2010, 10:50 PM Post #5
Calls LSCN Home Group: Members Posts: 14579 Joined: 20-March 07 From: Livonia Member No.: 5155	Very cool Fabricate-r! And, just in case you care, scanning tip... Try the "Moire" or "Magazine" setting when scanning images that turn out that way. "Because of the way images are printed, scanning a printed photograph from a book or magazine can create unsightly interference patterns called moire." -------------------- There are 2 seasons; Boating season, and Waiting for boating season.

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