Contributor Post: Rite Aid #4466, Garden City, Michigan
The following is (mostly) a SMR:MCRH Contributor Post. This post will look at retail in Garden City, Wayne County, MI. Rite Aid #4466 29447 Ford Road, Garden City, MI Driving distance and time from downtown Detroit: 17.0 miles, approx. 25 minutes Our second consecutive Rite Aid post keeps us in the past, and indeed so inside and out. Located in downtown Garden City, just a short walk from the former site of the world's first official Kmart (recently razed for an LA Fitness) and right behind Michigan's first dining-room McDonald's (seen undergoing a complete rebuild in the foreground in the above photo, the only one in this post that I took), sits this Rite Aid, which still looks pretty much like it did when it opened here on September 11, 2000, replacing an ex-Perry Drugs (in a former National Supermarket building) less than a half-mile away on Middlebelt Road. To get the grist of how unique this Rite Aid's exterior is from others of that era, we turn to Former Reta...