Foustland

The Flint Cultural Center is a pretty neat place.  It is a contained area surrounding the CS Mott estate - Applewood and contains the Flint Public Library, Longway Planetarium, Whiting Auditorium, Flint Institute of Arts, Mott Community College, Sloan Museum, Buick Museum and much more.

To do any research on the Flint area, this is where you go.  So Dorothy and I headed there the other day to do some quick research on what was going on in the Flint area in the early 1980s.  We only had a limited time, so we headed to the reference section of the Library and dug through archival books about Flint.  Below you will see some of the pictures I snapped, spy style, of some of the big newspaper books about Buick history and Autoworld.  While auto workers were being laid off, there were openings for jobs at the amusement park being built to celebrate the Flint auto making history (how funny, huh?).

I also took some shots of the WFBE radio tower behind Flint Central High School.  This is the transmitter that fed me and many others with music every week from the Take No Prisoners and Anarchy radio shows.  WFBE is now a country music radio station.  Back in the day it was a community funded public radio station.

Here are some photos from the walk around the Cultural Center of Flint, enjoy.