Photo 25-ZBE-27

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Nothing there any more.. I loved to go to Farmer Fridays.

This brings back so many memories. My family owned the Dave's Texaco gas station which is on the opposite side of I-94 as Farmer Friday's.

I grew up in Coloma and was very familiar with Farmer Friday's! My Mom did all her meat shopping at Fred's Meat Market, which was inside!! Loved if there...great childhood memories!!

I remember pouring the concrete for Fred's meat market. Thank's for the memory!

I loved Farmer Friday's too! My Mom, Joan Cleveland & Dad Clem Cleveland, loved it too! It was still there in the the 1990's. We weren't "from" this area but I met my husband, Gary Cooper , in this area when I was 15 in 1979 I was 15 years old. We were married on this day, February 11th on his 21sy birthday 1984. Today is his birthday & our 32nd anniversary. Nobody in my high school, Lake Michigan Catholic, thought we'd stay married because we were so young but here we are 32 years later with 3 grown kids & 6 beautiful grandkids & he's my rock & takes such great care of me & our oldest daughter Sophia & her 3 kids!! He's a wonderful man & example of what a man & father should be to our 2 boys Gary J Cooper, now married, has 3 girls & Jacob A Cooper & kept every promise he's ever made to me. I love his whole family & we love going back to the Benton Harbor St Joe area & drive by our old houses & see his family. I never see any of my old friends from LMC but I would LOVE to!!

Loved the GIANT WHEEL OF CHEESE

I recall that was an interesting store!! The Friday family has roots in Coloma, Watervliet and Bainbridge Township area in Berrien County back to the late 1840s. I wonder if any of the family still lives in the area? I am an area historian.

isnt the smaller structure ( on left side ), still there ?

I used to work overhead creating their Bugle ad paper. It's completely gone. The land around has been cleared and it looks like it's ready for a new development.

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