Markle’s Grocery & Motel in Au Train, Michigan, is pictured here as a classic U.P. roadside stop — groceries and a “modern motel” on one side, and a Texaco pump island and a small post office window on the other (early 1950s; exact year not confirmed).
Before big-box convenience stores, places like this were the lifeline between Munising and Marquette: gas, mail, basics for camp and cabin, and a room for travelers heading toward Lake Superior, the Au Train River and nearby forests.
Do you remember stopping here — or what you always bought when you passed through Au Train?
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