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1936 Calendar

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:30 am
by head2north
Found this and couldn't resist purchasing.

November 1936

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:05 am
by Ingo
Very cool! Just the one month, or a whole calendar?

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:44 pm
by head2north
The entire 1936 calendar is intact so I figured on posting each month corresponding to present. It will keep me dreaming about
The Island every month this winter - not that I don't alreaady

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:38 am
by Tightlines01
Great find thanks for sharing

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:51 am
by Tom
That's very cool. 1936 was a leap year, so your calendar can hang on your wall and be perfectly accurate in 2020.
(Calendars repeat every 28 years, for sure, sometimes more often.)

Looking forward to December!

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:28 am
by head2north
What a Holiday Gift it would be to spend time on Isle Royale this temperate December.....

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:47 am
by head2north
Why not look at January, it the holiday season.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:43 pm
by Midwest Ed
I noticed a few interesting things.

1) Tobin Harbor is spelled possessive - Tobins
2) Siskiwit Lake is labeled Lake Siskowit (with an o not i)
3) On the map, Belle Isle is located at the wrong end of Amygdaloid Island. (Most likely just a human error)

I hope this means we'll be getting a new page posted each month.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:49 pm
by hooky
Any idea where the January photo is taken?

For that matter, what harbor do you think is in the November photo?

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 9:30 pm
by Midwest Ed
hooky wrote:Any idea where the January photo is taken?

For that matter, what harbor do you think is in the November photo?
November could be almost anywhere. Even an inland lake.

January looks like the isthmus "point" on the SE corner of Snug Harbor (the small harbor that many people mistakenly call Rock Harbor). There is still an old, closed dock at that point but clearly far newer than what would have been there in 1937. I am pretty sure I have read that The South Americas (and maybe her sister ship North Americas) would visit "Rock Harbor" where a large lodge was located. If this is referring to Snug Harbor there is no way the nearly 300 foot Americas could fit inside Snug Harbor. It would have to dock at someplace such as the point. But, that's all just a guess.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:15 am
by head2north
New addition to the waiting out winter Calendar..

February

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:42 pm
by Midwest Ed
Thanks for the addition. Camping on Ryan Island, a pleasure now lost to US Park Service rules. And there's the reminder that coyotes once were present during the first half of the 20th century.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:49 am
by head2north
The picture that caught my attention was the Ryan Island. The island has passed my peripheral vision on many occasions. I never really have observed with a discerning look before, but I swear that Ryan Island is larger than that shown in picture.

I am probably wrong. I do not have a personal picture to compare to.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:00 am
by Tom
head2north wrote:The picture that caught my attention was the Ryan Island. The island has passed my peripheral vision on many occasions. I never really have observed with a discerning look before, but I swear that Ryan Island is larger than that shown in picture.
I thought the same thing, too, upon first glance... "That's a mighty big tent."
Then upon re-reading, I noticed it says "a rocky spur of Ryan Island."

I figure it's either the little Island off the North side, about mid-point, or perhaps what is now called Tea Kettle Island. That said, it wouldn't be beyond a calendar publisher in 1936 to take a photo of any Island around Siskiwit Lake, lay claim as Ryan Island, and move on.

Re: 1936 Calendar

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:42 am
by head2north
Tom wrote:... "That's a mighty big tent."
So this Ryan Island tent is the largest tent on the largest island in the largest lake in the largest island in the largest lake in North America.

No apologies....I couldn't resist.
I feel like I was set up on that one!