Main Street in Atlanta, Michigan, looks like a postcard here — big fenders at the curb, tidy storefronts, and a bold sign for M.C. Doty General Store advertising groceries, dry goods and a meat market. Coca-Cola signs hang out front, and a service station sits down the block, giving this scene that classic “downtown does it all” feel.
Records show an M.C. Doty Store operating in Atlanta by at least 1930, years before this photo was taken. Atlanta is the seat of Montmorency County, and pictures like this capture how small-town business districts served locals and travelers alike.
Do you remember Doty’s — or the businesses that used to line this stretch of Main Street?
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