Living in the Upper Peninsula
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- A profile of the residents of Crystal Falls, Michigan during the harsh winter months. Originally aired as a news series on WDIV-TV, then recut as a documentary that aired on December 31, 1983. Reported by legendary journalist Bob Pisor, the documentary profiles loggers, hunters, a transplanted musician, and various unique U.P. characters.
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Moving out of Flint is the smartest thing that guy has ever done
100%
Yeah, that is quite the transition. I live in Flint now.
Please don't be giving anyone ideas, we don't want anymore folks moving up here.
I live in northwest Genesee county, around Flushing/Montrose area but if a few situation circumstances happen in my favor,I'm going back to the area around Pelkie,Baraga area of the Copper country,and never looking back.thanks for your awesome video and it's always nice to see videos like this to keep the memories alive and well.
Thank you again...
Peace and Blessings 👍🙏✝️💯♥️
@@aprox23I’m coming up there eventually, I won’t be an a hole loser like the ppl down here in the LP
I grew up in a very little town in the UP called Rexton. I moved away in my twenties but couldn’t stay away, here in my sixties I am living in Germfask. Like my dad always said, the winters aren’t bad when you are just looking out the window!
I'm from Ohio. Vacation in Curtis. I enjoy going to the Jolly Inn in Germfask.
My mother was born and raised in Rexton, my uncle and grandfather I believe drowned in Rexton Lake many years ago back in the thirties or forties Lewis Treat and Donald Treat
@@kennethmartindale8771 maybe you remember the shingle mill in Garnet? When I was a kid I worked there with my grandfather, his name was Heyward Browning. He passed in 2000 and the mill burned down in the 90’s.
@@rogerallan3452 I live between Curtis and the Jolly. My wife says they have the best wet burritos!
This was truly a blast from the past. This was shown in 1983, 7 years after I moved to Crystal Falls. Many if not most of the fellas in this video have passed as has many of the businesses, like Hammerberg's Drug Store, Will's Hardware, Ken's Kountry Oven Bakery, The Diamond Drill, Bicigo's Shoe Shop, and Falls Restaurant. Bud's Barber Shop is still there but Bud finally retired and sold the shop to a younger barber.
Is the logging industry still running strong?
@@JPPW1982 The logging industry is probably the biggest industry in the Upper Peninsula. In Crystal Falls I would guess a logging truck goes through town about every 15 minutes.
@@sandmandave2008
Hey that's great to hear. I always appreciated to the logging industry.
For the fellas!
Do you still live there?
I grew up in the UP, and graduated HS in 1975 then went into the army. In 2014 I found myself back living in the UP. Summer and fall are magical (Except for satan's air force, the deer, black, and horse flies. Oh and the mosquitos are miserable too.)
The kayaking, hiking, biking, fishing, and hunting are great. September and October are my favorite time of year.
Do you have relatives in nordic countries?
@@johtajavayrynen3183 no, my relatives were mostly German. From Rothenberg area.
Hey you forgot to mention the ticks 😂
@@robsonoma4839 and the ghats
Had a place in Bruce Crossing, sold it 2001 and haven’t been back since. I regret selling it and the video really makes me miss the place... spent a lot of my childhood up there fishing and hunting... gods country
Greetings from Finland, the landscapes and hobbies are similar.
That’s why there’s so many Fins in the UP
I'm from Crystal Falls, what a neat video to watch. We used to hang out in the church parking lot in high school. Was the only thing to do on a typical small town weeknight. Great memories.
We had a great time in Crystal Falls. Worked hard all day, and made it a point to visit every bar in town during our week long stay. The Diamond Drill even did an article about us. Always loved my trips to the UP
@@johnowens963 CF used to be so lax on things. I used to shoot pool in the bar when I was 14 bc there was not much else to do. Couldn't go up to the bar though, not even to buy pop. Play pool, mind my own business and get out by 10. Lol. Such fun memories. I left the yoop in 2009 and I do miss it. Glad you get to visit and have a good time going. ☺
Brings back a lot of memories of visiting my grandparents in Iron River. This program is deadly accurate in its portrayal of life in the UP, especially in the 1970s. Love the UP. Absolutely love it.
Reminds me of living here in interior Alaska. It's the same kind of folks. It's a hard, simple but fulfilling life.
Simply marvelous. A beautiful piece of art. Thank you.
Saw this a while back but has resurfaced again. Born there and left after high school. Still have family there and visit but boy has it changed. Great place to be from and so many faces that are no longer alive. Sad but also a nice time capsule. Rosemary Paulsen Guerra
Thanks for posting this very special document.
Surviving winter in the UP, is only for the fittest! It get freezing and then some! Wonderful video, little more than 3 years ago, just looking at the cars. ❤️🇺🇸☃️❄️🌅
That man used to cut me and my dads hair right in thos same chairs he’s 84 now
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Another Yooper, born and bred. Grew up there in the 50s and 60s and went off to Ann Arbor to university in 1970. Haven't lived in the UP since 1976, but the best friends I have in the world are the people I grew up with there. I live on the ocean in FL now and don't miss the cold, but the UP still is home.
My blood relatives are from the u p. My mom and dad were born up there. They were from Calumet. I love it up there.
Harold Gill would enforce the law even when none were broken.
Thank you so much for posting this! An amazing document.
Thanks for preserving and uploading this
I remember taking a Greyhound Bus from Detroit to Hancock.
The, Bus would leave at 1:20pm the bus would go to Duluth, Minnesota, I have to change busses in Escanaba.
The bus was a Chicago-to-Calumet run it would arrive in Hancock about 5:30am the next morning.
P.S.,
The, Indian Trails bus company, took over the Greyhound bus routes in Northern Michigan.
I, even remember eating pasties up there.
I did the bus from Detroit to Chicago to Marquette. Never did that one again!
I graduated from Ontonagon Area High School in 1968.
RIP Bob Pisor. July 7, 2017
Rosemary - This is your cousin Paul Carlotto. I just saw this video for the first time a couple of days ago while searching through RUclips videos. Marsha and I were in Crystal Falls last August. Saw your brother and others. Had a great time. You are right though, so many are gone. I will never forget all the good times I had visiting there when I was young and especially the great times during hunting season.
Loved this, thank you.
Today the people of Crystal Falls are still very friendly I've been going up there for 40 years you think that I would retire and move up there I'm working on it
I grew up in flint and then moved to the U.P. when I was 18. I raised my kids there. Its beautiful there and will always be home in my heart!
"And it wasn't happening. So I decided that I better do it myself if it was gonna happen."
All these people on Twitter and social media talking about how change needs to happen never seem to say that.
Very cool stuff. My dad graduated from high school in Crystal Falls and we went there every summer. This has some of the most beautiful country you'll ever see. I love the area so much I bought a place there myself.
A great show showing the character and hard working folks of the U.P.
Remember Split Rock?
Hammerhead Cooking this is a cool video and you are so lucky to have a place in Crystal falls I'm 53 and live in Chicago born and raised here my parents bought lakefront property on Chicaugon Lake in 1970 I was so fortunate to have such a wonderful childhood and a place to go every year on vacation in 1987 my dad passed away but mom would still go up and stay for summer along with relatives she then started to suffer from Alzheimer's in the late 1990s with medical bills piling up we had to sell the property to take care of her then a nursing home in 2001 she passed away I returned to the area around 2004 along with my son who was 5 at the time and my cousin we came up to fish and stayed at the Chicaugon Lake inn we did this for a few years until my son started playing baseball in 2007 haven't been up since but plan on returning again someday soon my son now 19 is in college in Rockford Illinois he loves fishing and we want to come up hopefully next year 2019 , you have a beautiful area to live in PEACE !!
i moved out of Detroit in Nov "77" out of the army, straight up north to Black Lake, Black Mt, a little cabin, snow was 5ft deep, it was like moving back in time, no locked doors, everything was definitely different, i stayed raised my family here, Tip of the Mit, even though i go and worked in the UP for decades, nothing like northern michigan
My wifes from St. Ignace just across the bridge. Beautiful country.
thanks for this. almost moved to crystal falls in the ‘70s. what a beautiful place.
Great informational video. I live in Saint Lucie County Fl . It’s hot humid and crowded here A lot has changed in the last 20 years. Looks like a great safe area where you live in Northern Michigan
Greatest place on earth. The best people live in the UP!
Old video... Boy a lot of fun to watch. Even times have changed so much since then. But not up there. The upper peninsula it's basically like another country. People still have that down-home goodness that us downstate or lower peninsula Farmers have. The difference is finances. Like the man said in there, you got to be diverse living up there, able to finance yourself from different sources of employment, and it doesn't hurt to be a good hunter fisher or trapper. My grandfather Hunted in the irons County area from the 1890s, up into the 1950s. I've got a lot of beautiful old photographs of times they spent, log cabins they built by hand, and the Buck poles. This country is losing its grip but places like this hold on pretty well. Thank God for that
Your story and photographs would make a great book
You'd be (mostly) right about that. I live in the woods in the center of the UP. My dad, my grandpa (RIP) and me are always (and for my Grandpa, was) always pointed out in the closest city of Marquette for our accents because we still live like real Yoopers here. We dont use natural gas, we use wood to heat our home. And a wood stove to heat our food. But obviously we got electricity and internet and whatnot. The geography itself is all still the same, but the people are starting to change. The accent is disappearing, the flannel clothing is becoming less common, etc. However, the people are still the same. We're all still hearty folk, and we are proud to consider ourselves some of the toughest people in America!
"You have to be kinda versatile if you want to survive. You can't just depend on one thing."
Those are words from a man who always had a job.
I was a year old when this aired originally. Glad I found it on here. You know a documentary is good when you have watched it several times.
Very enjoyable video. Thanks for making it. My father worked in the woods in that area back in the 1930's. They used cross-cut saws back then. And of course horse teams.
Watching this on Jan 22 2021. Work for Timber Products Inc out of Iron Mtn. Nice video
Same day!! Gladstone area for me
I moved to the U.P. in 1977, and I still pass through Crystal Falls fairly regularly to and from northern Wisconsin -- not a lot has changed in CF since this was made other than like other towns, commercial activity has shifted to the fairly flat patch of terrain on the other side of the courthouse.
Just saw a 500lb mom black bear with 6 cubs cross the road in Iron river
U.P. rules
boy, the styles really are older in this video. Not just the clothing, eyewear is very different too. All in all, this reminds of simpler times, hard work and good (really good) people. Kind of like my own small hometown
"So, what are your gonna do then?"
"Well, I am gonna cut it down fast and run."
What a wonderful time piece!! Thank you John that was beautiful! What year was that filmed? It looked like the late 70's.
Thanks for the kind words. Filmed in the winter of 1983...lots of fond memories of that trip.
Thank you...
THANK YOU JOHN OWEN 👍👍👍👍🙏
Great choice!
Ralph Towner's "Blue Sun"
One of my favorites!
Amazing that you recognized Ralph Towner. Most of music came from Northern Song by Steve Tibbetts…worth checking out
@johnowens963
My now deceased older brother was a fan of Oregon, and we both come from a family of musicians. (Everybody except me, I always had to be different... I preferred the playing fields)
One ancestor famously played in the Nat Cole Trio in the 1940s.
I will check out your recommendation tonight when my surroundings are quieter.
Thank you.
My dad's side of the family is out of ontonagon.been there since the beginning.
That's where I settled. Love it!
@@backwatersandbackroads it's truly such a gorgeous place I love visiting I always feel like I'm home. I hope one day to retire there. I got roughly 35 years though lol.
@@craftycactus3965 We don't have 35 years! The time is NOW :)
I am from the Iron River area, back in the 60 late 50 inorder to get a job in the mines you had to 21 yrs. old with 35 year experience
The 906
I love Crystal Falls
CFFP used to have a good football team in the 90's & early 2000's I used to go to the Superior dome to watch the play off's . Do they still have a good team? The coach was Santorellie or something like that back then
This is very similar to northern Maine
I went to torch lake township, its a great place… the whole UP is nice
Just saw a 500lb mom black bear with 6 cubs cross the road in Iron river
What a great life and deer camp would be so fun
How about an update?
Remember split-rock south of town?
It is still there. The tree is dead now.
The UP is the best place ever.
"We know our neighbors. We'd be takin' care of 'em."
Somehow we went from that to the government telling us that we need them to take care of us.
Make sure you go to Fob's for breakfast.
I’m wondering if the Bob Pisor is the same person that created the stone house bread originally in Leland?
That is the same Bob Pisor. After retiring from reporting, he moved up to a house he built in Leland and started Stonehouse Bread, a reference to an old stone house on his property. He eventually sold the business to some Detroit bread makers he helped train. Bob passed away a few years ago and I will always fondly remember the times we worked together, and our adventures in the UP
I live in the up and it’s a nice place
Same here. Have all my life
why don't you do a Video of Iron River
I LOVE COPPER HARBOR
Spent a week there on our honey moon. Back in June 1982. Beautiful place!
My mom is from Calumet
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NOICEEEEE!!!!
From Ishpeming
God it still looks almost the same now as it did back then. Just new stores, but buildings n main street look the same!
Rexall Drug Stores should be preserved and made national monuments where they still exist. Saw one in this video.
This was aired a year before i was born ........im 36
I was driving one early winter morning on main hwy. Had to be a foot of snow on the road .had to keep the throttle down to maintain speed . Very stressful will never forget. No traffic
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i love the U.P. june through september. not so much the rest of the time.
I'm from ohio but I love the UP.
John ... if you were to title this video: "Living in Upper Michigan" you would get a lot more views.
I live in crystal falls
I live on the Bristol mine, randy loves and takes great care of this area
....where men are men, and women are glad of it.
I wouldn't want a guy who's afraid to get mud on them. Can't shoot a deer. Afraid of the woods. And doesn't know what a face cord is.
Looks like the 'Fargo" movie!
Minnesota is mostly flat farm land. They don't get nearly as much snow as we do in the U.P. and we have a mostly rocky terrain... At least the western half of the Peninsula.
Aye.
Look UP! See blue.
Upper peninsula I've been up there before 😂
20:05 "if jesus christ ran on a democratic ticket he'd be an atheist". 😂🤣😂🤣
I wonder if he knew that he was a socialist. LOL!!
the date stamp says 2017---clearly not when this was produced. Must say, the reporter is DAMN HOT !!!
In the description it says this show is from December 31st 1983.
Stone cold actually. He passed away some time ago.
Crazy to think all of these people are dead now.
May all there souls rest in peace
Hahaha Crystal Falls is still on the south end of northern michigan. Hahaha try coming a lil further north to Marquette or Ontanogon maybe. Haha
Well, FWIW, The interior gets colder faster than the lakeshore.
Come up visit, drop some cash, and head home
Why does history always sound like the stories of an 8-12 year old boy. Meanwhile in this wildly remote town it somehow boasts matching "courthouse" and building architecture of every city the world over. lol
The U.P was a great place should have been the fifty first state . Now it's just a tourist attraction and every one lives in the past . Most people moved out in the eighties and what is left lives off government checks .
Ah, Superior the 51st state!!!
Live off government checks?
What an ignorant statement
Your a simple person, I’m a highly skilled Master Electrician. I make $ 70000 a year. My wife also makes about the same. We are pretty average people around here. To say we all live off government checks makes you look very jealous of what we have here. We are hard workers up here because if your not your not gonna make it. Our weather here might be less than desirable, but after witnessing the whole Covid scamdemic I wouldn’t live anywhere else.
If only this were the case. Kids are still being born and growing up in that Hellhole.
I escaped it at the age of 24, and I only ever want to visit Escanaba or Marquette because that's my old home. - I'm glad I left, even if I'm functionally homeless now. I've finally been growing as a person again
@@mysticmongrel1289 Why do you think it's such a hellhole?
i live in marquette county michigan/ crystal falls is right down the street. i moved here many yrs ago after listening to all the b.s. on the internet about gods land lol what a joke. the truth about the u.p. yes its beautiful and it snows and nature blah blah blah. ever been fishing up here? they have a manual on what lakes you can fish what you can fish with and on and on. so remember to bring you manual on fishing in the u.p. thats if you can find a place to fish. yup thousand of lake barley any you can fish their either private or so overgrown you can only fish on boat loading and you cant do that at most lakes. lake superior is freezing yr around all those pics you see are of college kids only. im not a politics person but to give you a idea. marquette county voted 82 percent for bernie sanders. enough said. most people up here are lazy as hell or always looking for a hand out. hell you can make 55k a yr hear and still go to food pantrys????? people are always finding ways to scam someone some out of something. people up here abuse the system so they can be lazy and do nothing. yeah yeah they say no jobs up here. moved up here from nowhere new no one and had 2 jobs in a matter of2 days. took me almost a year to get a job for my degree, but it is doable. so if your worthless like doing nothing and always looking for a handout marquette county is the place to be. utilities are they highest in the nation. rent is anywhere from 900 to 2000 for a 3 bedroom really closer to 1500 on average. same price you can get a house on the coast look at zillow.
@@BHauck-os9sy We are leaving July 1st. would of been sooner but the experience my wife got from work was to good to pass up
@@BHauck-os9sy lol so true only democratic county in entire u.p. lol
@@BHauck-os9sy That's good to know. My ancestors were from the u.p. we are a very close to moving back but politics worries me having lived in the south for the last 20 years. Ready to come home but would like to keep my freedom.
It has gone steadily downhill since I left in 1982. I saw the same things you are talking about . My home town is Trenary. A town of less than 500 . It supports 2 bars but their grocery store went bankrupt..on their local Facebook page I see local businesses close for a day or two at a time because of " staffing issues" I.E.. nobody showed up for work that day. And don't forget the number of addicts up there mostly alcoholics but drugs are prevalent also. And the liberal attitude just makes me want to puke
Great now that everybody watch this they're going to move up there and it's going to turn into a another Detroit.
they arent moving up there, its too cold, cut firewood? who me? nope takes hard work to live in the UP, thats not them.
They do like to retire here though
The humongous fungus!!