The UP

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

IMHO the weather is identical in the two places with Marquette marginally colder for marginally longer. But at least you can fly directly into Marquette. There is a small museum in Houghton at Dee stadium commemorating the birthplace of professional hockey. It's worth a trip up.

This is all I know of Dee. Actually if it were not for the folks here it'd be all I'd know of the UP.

 

[Wisko McBadgerton]

Re: The UP

November 9th and 10th? Beware as that weekend is precisely 'When the gales of November come early'.

Hmm... you could go down to the harbor after the first game and look out for the lights of the Ghost of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as 43 years earlier on the night of November 9th, 1975 she was directly North of Marquette before turning down for Whitefish Bay. On the evening of November 10th, 1975 she foundered 100 miles east of Marquette, shortly after 7:00 pm

Good chance you'll see something as legend has it that she and her crew are doomed to repeat their ill-fated journey again and again for all eternity until the stolen Ship's Bell (which incidentally, is located at Whitefish Point in the Great Lakes Ship Wreck Museum.) is returned and they can finally rest at peace.*

The reason I'm aware of this though is that as a youngster in early September 1975 my family took a trip to the Soo locks. Having never really been anywhere up to that point in my young life, and never having seen a skyscraper or ship of any kind in person, it left quite an impression in general, but more specifically because 'Big Fitz' traversed the locks while I was there. I would have probably remembered her for a good while anyway because she was somewhat of a 'celebrity' ship, holding many, many speed and tonnage records on the Great Lakes. That, her immense size, and the fact that several of her crew came out on deck and interacted with the crowd as she was lifted in the lock only yards away from us, made her stand out far above all the rest. In my mind's eye I can still picture the fellas waving and laughing and talking with the crowd, just as I can still picture my Dad holding the paper with the headline: LAKER SINKS; 29 LOST over a picture of the mighty Fitz just two months later.

Here she is in the Soo locking down: Edit: Oops. Obviously copied the wrong pic, but I'll leave it as it's still the Soo locks. Instead here's an old video of her transiting the locks, which gives an impression of how close you are to the ship and crew there.

<img style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="https://www.saultstemarie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/is80-1242843195-24396-e1453413661730.jpeg">




*TBH I'm pretty sure that's a legend I just made up two minutes ago.

 

[Twitch Boy]

Re: The UP

Go to the Hilltop outside Marquette and get a cinnamon roll the size of a small child.

And if you want to talk topographical nightmares, head to Houghton and go for a spin around the Yooper Loop.

 

[geezer]

Re: The UP

Go to the Hilltop outside Marquette and get a cinnamon roll the size of a small child.

And if you want to talk topographical nightmares, head to Houghton and go for a spin around the Yooper Loop.

Ha, the loop seems a little easier for people since roundabouts have caught on elsewhere, but it still amuses me to come upon some unfortunate parked in the middle, wondering how to go north, while the commuters are dodging them at 40 mph.

 

[aparch]

Re: The UP

Ha, the loop seems a little easier for people since roundabouts have caught on elsewhere, but it still amuses me to come upon some unfortunate parked in the middle, wondering how to go north, while the commuters are dodging them at 40 mph.

I weep for the pour souls who's minds explode on Diverging Diamond Interchanges. Also, I believe it was MDOT who put a compilation video together that showed how to NOT drive through a roundabout after they put them in on US41 in Ishpeming. The locals seem to have gotten much better though.



Kep, I'll have a much longer post soon with some ideas for ya.

 

[burd]

Re: The UP

November 9th and 10th? Beware as that weekend is precisely 'When the gales of November come early'.

Hmm... you could go down to the harbor after the first game and look out for the lights of the Ghost of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as 43 years earlier on the night of November 9th, 1975 she was directly North of Marquette before turning down for Whitefish Bay. On the evening of November 10th, 1975 she foundered 100 miles east of Marquette, shortly after 7:00 pm

Good chance you'll see something as legend has it that she and her crew are doomed to repeat their ill-fated journey again and again for all eternity until the stolen Ship's Bell (which incidentally, is located at Whitefish Point in the Great Lakes Ship Wreck Museum.) is returned and they can finally rest at peace.*

The reason I'm aware of this though is that as a youngster in early September 1975 my family took a trip to the Soo locks. Having never really been anywhere up to that point in my young life, and never having seen a skyscraper or ship of any kind in person, it left quite an impression in general, but more specifically because 'Big Fitz' traversed the locks while I was there. I would have probably remembered her for a good while anyway because she was somewhat of a 'celebrity' ship, holding many, many speed and tonnage records on the Great Lakes. That, her immense size, and the fact that several of her crew came out on deck and interacted with the crowd as she was lifted in the lock only yards away from us, made her stand out far above all the rest. In my mind's eye I can still picture the fellas waving and laughing and talking with the crowd, just as I can still picture my Dad holding the paper with the headline: LAKER SINKS; 29 LOST over a picture of the mighty Fitz just two months later.

Here she is in the Soo locking down: Edit: Oops. Obviously copied the wrong pic, but I'll leave it as it's still the Soo locks. Instead here's an old video of her transiting the locks, which gives an impression of how close you are to the ship and crew there.

<img style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="https://www.saultstemarie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/is80-1242843195-24396-e1453413661730.jpeg">




*TBH I'm pretty sure that's a legend I just made up two minutes ago.

Great post, Wisko.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: The UP

November 9th and 10th? Beware as that weekend is precisely 'When the gales of November come early'.

Hmm... you could go down to the harbor after the first game and look out for the lights of the Ghost of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as 43 years earlier on the night of November 9th, 1975 she was directly North of Marquette before turning down for Whitefish Bay. On the evening of November 10th, 1975 she foundered 100 miles east of Marquette, shortly after 7:00 pm

Good chance you'll see something as legend has it that she and her crew are doomed to repeat their ill-fated journey again and again for all eternity until the stolen Ship's Bell (which incidentally, is located at Whitefish Point in the Great Lakes Ship Wreck Museum.) is returned and they can finally rest at peace.*

The reason I'm aware of this though is that as a youngster in early September 1975 my family took a trip to the Soo locks. Having never really been anywhere up to that point in my young life, and never having seen a skyscraper or ship of any kind in person, it left quite an impression in general, but more specifically because 'Big Fitz' traversed the locks while I was there. I would have probably remembered her for a good while anyway because she was somewhat of a 'celebrity' ship, holding many, many speed and tonnage records on the Great Lakes. That, her immense size, and the fact that several of her crew came out on deck and interacted with the crowd as she was lifted in the lock only yards away from us, made her stand out far above all the rest. In my mind's eye I can still picture the fellas waving and laughing and talking with the crowd, just as I can still picture my Dad holding the paper with the headline: LAKER SINKS; 29 LOST over a picture of the mighty Fitz just two months later.

Here she is in the Soo locking down: Edit: Oops. Obviously copied the wrong pic, but I'll leave it as it's still the Soo locks. Instead here's an old video of her transiting the locks, which gives an impression of how close you are to the ship and crew there.

<img style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="https://www.saultstemarie.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/is80-1242843195-24396-e1453413661730.jpeg">




*TBH I'm pretty sure that's a legend I just made up two minutes ago.

I hadn't realized that the Edmund Fitzgerald went down on Kristallnacht.

 

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

Kep, I'll have a much longer post soon with some ideas for ya.

Well, mostly I'm just looking for people to drink and talk hockey with.

 

[St. Clown]

Re: The UP

Well, mostly I'm just looking for people to drink and talk hockey with.

Sadly, there's no good hockey talk found in the UP these days. That's mostly due to the lack of good hockey in the UP these days.

 

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

Sadly, there's no good hockey talk found in the UP these days. That's mostly due to the lack of good hockey in the UP these days.

Didn't both NMU and MTU have very good teams in the past few years?

Also: you didn't say there's no drinking.

 

[St. Clown]

Re: The UP

Didn't both NMU and MTU have very good teams in the past few years?

Also: you didn't say there's no drinking.

They're good by WCHA standards.

There must be drinking. Lots of drinking. MTU has no women, what else are they to do? NMU has women, but they've seen the men. What else are they to do?

 

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

They're good by WCHA standards.

NMU has women, but they've seen the men. What else are they to do?

The visitors?

 

[joecct]

Re: The UP

Take him surfing on Lake Superior.

 

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

Take him surfing on Lake Superior.

That's sounds fun!

(I have never been surfing.)

What's the water, 32.1 degrees F?

 

[MissThundercat]

Re: The UP

Well, mostly I'm just looking for people to drink and talk hockey with.

I'll probably be there.

Food ideas:

Donckers (great breakfast)
Portside Inn
Casa Calabria (the garlic bread)
Vango's (good gyros)
Border Grill

 

[burd]

Re: The UP

Is there such a thing as an honest-to-goodness blue-collar commercial fishing, sailing or dock worker's bar in Marquette, or is that a thing of the past?

 

[manurespreader]

Re: The UP

They're good by WCHA standards.

There must be drinking. Lots of drinking. MTU has no women, what else are they to do? NMU has women, but they've seen the men. What else are they to do?

Gee I thought you lost to a wcha team this year. Must be dreaming I guess. Never mind.

Cornell played UAH I believe last year, so they are already familiar with the WCHA.

 

[The Rube]

Re: The UP

Go to the Hilltop outside Marquette and get a cinnamon roll the size of a small child.

And if you want to talk topographical nightmares, head to Houghton and go for a spin around the Yooper Loop.

F THE GOD**** YOOPER LOOPER ABORTION PIECE OF SH* ABORTION INTERSECTION. THEY SHOULD CALL IT THE LOOPY CU*.


That was an exact quote the first time I ever encountered that monstrosity of engineering and road-planning.

 

[Kepler]

Re: The UP

THE LOOPY CU*.

As God is my witness, I don't know what goes in that asterisk.

 

[aparch]

As God is my witness, I don't know what goes in that asterisk.

nt.