![]() It was also in 1996 that Rick and Lori Dubro purchased Papa J’s & Roosters Chicken in Grawn. Today there are 15 Grand Traverse Pie shops scattered across Michigan and Indiana with more than 300 “pie people.” It added other bakery items and a café in 2000. The first Grand Traverse Pie shop opened July 19, with six employees. The two were tired of their corporate lives in San Diego and after visiting meeting and working with the owner of Julian Pie Company in Julian, California, they returned to their home state. In 1996, Mike and Denise Busley opened the first Grand Traverse Pie Company. Today Home Depot, Walmart and Staples remain there Toys R Us, Office Depot and Borders Books are gone. The building wound up in the hands of Rotary Charities, which donated the theater to the Traverse City Film Festival in May 2007.īig box stores arrived in Traverse City in 1996 with the opening of the Grand Traverse Crossings shopping center on South Airport Road across from Grand Traverse Mall. Seven years later, the State Theatre Group and Interlochen Center for the Arts announced a partnership to renovate the theater. ![]() During that time, it was purchased by Barry Cole and the State Theatre Group, with plans to convert it into a performing arts complex. The screen remained dark at the downtown fixture for over a decade. It was a quarter century ago that the State Theatre closed its doors. And in the last year of the decade, the Traverse Area District Library opened its doors, welcoming readers to its new location on Woodmere. The National Cherry Festival was named a Top Ten Event by USA Today in 1997, ‘98 and ‘99. Grand Traverse Mall and the Horizon Outlet Mall opened in 1992. In Traverse City, the ‘90s saw a host of developments, changes, and newsworthy events, and The Ticker explores all in our third and final Sunday lookback. Seinfeld, ER and Friends were all the rage on TV, and Bill Clinton was reelected President in 1996. In the mid-90s, the worldwide web was coming into common usage, with the debut of eBay, and email becoming a familiar everyday tool. The world was a very different place just 25 years ago. Run by smart volunteers, this place is a work of art and love.Traverse City A Quarter Century Ago By Ross Boissoneau How many can say that and all for nothing but attendance and pleasure. I got to ride a Ferris wheel in nearly white out conditions. This year, there happened to be a blizzard during the chief weekend. The street in front of the theater is blocked. During the February comedy festival, there are many family and child centered ice activites. Concessions have a real variety and sometimes the popcorn is for free. ![]() Besides, you can wait by tilting your head back and look at constellations on the celing. Be pleased the small town looks on the outside pack real power on the inside. There is a summer film festival gaining national attention. The best of commercial runs plus Oscar contenders and excellent but barely known films are carefully selected to educate as well as entertain. I have seen two free international animation series that were excellent. Local celebrity influence and updated small town theater makes this a must go cinema in Traverse City, MI.
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