Spikehorn Meyer
Posted by Troy | Filed under Travel, Traverse City
I discovered Spikehorn Meyer this week in an old travel-film clip my grandma sent me
It’s really cool to see mid-century footage of my home here in Traverse City and the Sleeping Bear Dunes, but Ol’ Spikehorn steals the show.
He seems like a guy I’d want to know… or maybe even a guy I might have become…
Spikehorn said that the company of bears was much preferable to that of other people… he might be right, but I guess I’m lucky that I haven’t yet become so cynical about people that I’ve taken to avoiding them altogether…
I was hoping to check out the biography from my local library, but I haven’t had time… each nugget of information I scrounged up online just made Spikehorn more and more interesting though…
like when he made national news in 1945 after sending wires to Truman, Atlee and Stalin announcing a personal offer of $50K for the capture of Adolph Hitler.
I like him…
Photo from Don Harrison’s Up North Memories Flickr collection. I thought some color might give it a little life.
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2 Responses to “Spikehorn Meyer”
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t.c. worley Says:
March 24th, 2010 at 11:06 amCool. I dig old-timers. I fancy myself making a dandy one someday.
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RobF Says:
August 1st, 2011 at 3:28 pmI remember when i was a kid my parents went to Houghton Lake to one of their favorite restaurants – The Blue Jay. We would always stop a Spikehorn’s Deer Camp and feed tthe dear potato skins that my mom had saved. Those were the good old days.
