Businesses - Copper Harbor

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Title: Businesses - Copper Harbor
Photographer: Gazette Photo
Subject Headings: Buildings - Commercial Buildings - Stores, Retail, Human Settlements,
Condition: Good
Description: Business is brisk in Copper Harbor these days. Never before has there been such diversity of store offerings which range all the way from meats arranged in supermarket style to the most exquisite gems carved with north country skill. The photo below shows the agate shop with its slanting window effect. [Please see comment section for further information.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article June 14, 1957 Edition [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Bob Skuggen
Date of Photo: June 14 1957
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10.1 cm x 15.1 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-013-001-001
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• This was a much smaller building that was living quarters in the back, and a grocry store in the front.
11/26/2010 2:53:25 PM by Anonymous
• The original building was smaller with living quarters in the back. The front was a grocery store plus cabins back of the building. It was built by Eldred DeMarois, who purchased the property after he got out ot the service. He later had a small take out of pasties made by his sister's Ione Johnson and Laurin Mills.
11/26/2010 2:57:02 PM by Anonymous
• Surprising indeed are the number of motels, stores, soft drink stands, etc., which have sprung up in the last two years. And further building is still proceeding. The Kauppi motel is rapidly sizing up as one of the largest in the Keweenaw Country. The former Miss Violet Johnson, daughter of the late Holger Johnson who for a long period of time resided on Isle Royale, has a thoroughly modern agate shop. As Mrs. Eino Miller, she is operating the Keweenaw shop at the Harbor. During the regular season, it functions in Ahmeek. The Pontiac Hotel is making improvements and the Fort Wilkins State Park has added more acreage in the vicinity of Breezy Point. Eagle River has a small unit motel being readied for business by James Swank. He already posseses a dainty coffee shop on the beach. Fred Niemi of Laurium is in the cabin business at the River and John Bausano has an attractive motel arrangement at Jacob Creek and Falls. Commercially, Copper Harbor appears the largest and most lively of the three Keweenaw resort towns. Eagle Harbor is a place where one may relax and rest. Eagle River retains its identity through its bible camp, along Lake Superior beach and county seat. Sand Bay, between Eagle River and Eagle Harbor, is one of the county's famed picnic and bathing areas. [Daily Mining Gazette Article - June 14, 1957 Edition]
4/2/2009 9:59:30 AM by Christine Holland, Archives
• This was the business owned by my parents, Eino and Violet Miller. In 1957 I was five years old and lived in the back and upstairs of the agate shop.
4/20/2012 2:39:38 PM by grannysage