This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hFB.2ACE/1773.1 Message Board Post: You'll find that the downtown business district looks very much like it did when you left, but nothing else does. The names of the merchants have changed but the stores look pretty much the same. Dancers is now a "Goodwill" store, I think A&P is now a shoe store and the bowling alley isn't upstairs anymore - both are on W Maple St (street north of the court house). The dr office sounds like the old hospital that is now the Methodist Church parking lot on E Ash St. The building where the bakery across from the court house on E Ash St is still there. Keans is still there. The dairy queen building is still there at the corner of Columbia and State streets but it's not a dairy queen. The dairy hill on East Ash St near Rayner park and the fairgrounds is still there. The "new" high school is on S Barnes St. The "old" high school is now senior housing (the "new" high school is older than the "old" high school was when the "new" high school was built). The Thorburn (not Thurber) Lumber & Coal on N Mason St is now an "antique mall". Visit the city web site at http://www.mason.mi.us/cityhall/index.htm . You can also see some old photos here - http://gladstonephoto.com/store/scripts/imageFolio.cgi?direct=MICHIGAN_HISTORICAL_IMAGES/INGHAM_COUNTY . There's a local history museum at http://masonmuseum.com/ . They don't update their website very often. That building was a Christian Science Church when you lived in Mason. Enjoy your visit.