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This garage stopped me cold while prowling the side streets of Lakeside, Michigan, a summer-home and resort area just over the state line from Indiana on Lake Michigan. Yes, it's just the garage, but it echoes the paint scheme of the rental cottage it belongs to several feet away, in the dark, under the trees. The swim-capped bathing beauties are reminiscent of tourism ad campaigns, now resurrected in nostalgia posters available at local shops. Frequented by both quick-getaway travelers and summer-long residents from the Chicago area, Lakeside is a community on the "South Shore," still accessible by a commuter railroad of that name. Lakeside is also served by the Red Arrow highway, which weaves across lower Michigan linking one classic village after the next. Around the corner from the red and green garage, on the Red Arrow, is a perpetually for-rent used-to-be gas station, made of brick and glass and about to be swallowed whole by ivy crawling up the back wall. Home decor businesses just off the Red Arrow include Lovell & Whyte, Pomegranate Home, Sprite of Hand. | ||||||||
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