Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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.,...,.,,-...wg-.nm.,.-...m..- may--,msswssm 0nee upon a time f not all that long ago - there was a sleepy little Dutch town near a lake. and the merchants there had a curious and quaint tradition. Every Wednesday at noon. they would snap out the lights. hang up the CLOSED signs and take the rest of the day off. Never mind that it wasn't very good business. This was how it was done in this town. And back then, the city closed down not just Wednesday afternoons. but also Sundays. when the devout observed the Sabbath not once, but twice. This was :1 community of quiet streets and white-steepled Christian Reformed churches. of small-town concerns traded over coffee and cookies. where time marched at the measured pace of an old-fashioned hymn. A Times have changed, l-lolland. the sleepy little Dutch town, has awakened - and there's no turning back the clock. That clock, in fact. seems to be stuck on fast forward. The city's in the middle of a full- Hedged boom that has made it one of the fastest growing areas in Michigan and the Midwest. Like tulips in spring. apartments and con- -w......Cmf l - L -S-ji'-Elf- E 'Z ' 'vit T fy 'TT 7 il- f- .uf-. fe' Q..-ac' . t TfY.,.'. frfag 7 dominiums and fancy new housing devel- opments are popping up all over town. .it large industrial park on the eity's south side. open land 25 years ago, is now filled with more than 50 in- dustries. ff. second industrial park just north of Holland is beginning to fill. all of which helps to keep unemployment down in the range of 5 percent. Now retail stores proliferate along the east side. along US. 31 and along Waverly Road. The S25 million Westshore Mall. not far from the newly opened Hill's and Witmark depart- ment stores and the new Holiday lnn. is sched- uled to open this fall, You can almost hear the sound of dollars piling ever higher, And some say. you can hear the echo of problems Holland never faced before. The city now has a rush hour. as streets like River Avenue and parts of 16th and Eighth streets become snarled with traffic as workers make their way in or out of town. Ris- ing enrollment has crowded thc city school sys- tem. forcing officials to adopt a plan that would place all district sixth graders in a single school. The new mall at the edge of town, although sure to be an economic boon. threatens the city's L. m S S C 'xt L : 'u sl Jaylem uamerl - ---- -------1 ---- 1 --we-se.-sexesszwww.vawrxmmx.fn:.w.em.mA-t-was-RW- w-,- ---. . --Vsvv.s-ft-:av.e-me-was-s,.,,.-Q downtown. Even the character ofthe place is different. l-lolland. although stilI stitched together with churches and tradition, no i.f u stays open on San- dayffou can eat out. bo' .'v' l. Candi buy a loaf of bread , . . here on Sunday. Holland is more and more a city of change. where growing numbers of Hispanics live side-by-side with their Sutch neighbors. where new money and new residents push the city and surroundings into a new era. A lifetime resident i ,'v ondered about the di- rection of things as she shared lunch with a eo- worker one day at a Russ Restaurant. ft started out te be a Sutch community and everybody was alike, says Sylvia Kalman. -1-5. a word processor at First Michigan Bank in irloliand. it-low we are getting a lot of different types of people. fm not saying that's bad, bat it is different. iialrnan still thinks Holland is great place to live. -- Ted Floelofs Eooth itxlews Service Opening 9

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