My Grandpa's Bait Shop (Fank's Bait Shop)

This is how I remembered it about 1964 when I was 5, maybe even 4

It was at the end of Erie Rd where it dead end into the Lake, Luna Pier, MI

I used to play with my cousin David here after my Dad moved back from Monroe

where he was born to Luna Pier, when he was less than 8 because of the

depression, Luna Pier was a place of Summer cottages before the depression

that had a dance Pier and people would come to play in the summer, big names from 

as far away as Chicago would play there as well as the mob, there was a Trolley Car

That ran from Toledo to Monroe through Luna Pier, His Bait Shop was next to

or in the middle of a wild life refuge surrounding a coal burning Power plant.

People, I remember a lot of Black's, from as far away as Detroit would come to fish 

"The Hot Hole". the fish liked the warm water that came from Lake Erie into the plant 

to cool the turbines, then back to Lake Erie, My cousin's dad and mom ran

it after he passed and now it's long gone as well as an orphanage summer camp

"Our Lady of the Lake" where Orphans from Florida came and camped on the Lake

but we were not allowed to play with them, the nuns had a tight rain on them

although we did use there raft and play in the buildings in the winter,

when I say we I really mean my cousins and a hand full of kids, Luna Pier

is the smallest or was the smallest city in Michigan my dad had 4 brothers and 

one sister raised there all five boys were in the military, at one point

one of my uncles his wife and four kids all about 10 and under lived in

the Bait Shop, all they had was EACH OTHER