Driving Don

Driving Don

Take a ride with us. My grandson and I like driving around & exploring various places in Towns, Cities, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Beaches, Rivers, Festival Events, Etc. Mainly focusing in Berrien County But I also will make videos of other places out of town if I'm headed that way. In the videos you may have previously lived there at one time, or just want to visit someday. Also for posterity the videos will be around for many years to view on this Channel. I use a hands free dash mounted Go Pro Camera Hero 9. for safety and upload them in 4K HD format for and quality viewing. I just started this Channel on January 11th 2022 So, please help my channel grow by like & subscribe and a thumbs up. I will certainly appreciate it and will keep more of the videos coming. I try to use royalty free back ground music if my grandson not distracting.. :0) Thanks for watching and enjoy the drive. Don Aldrich

Kmart Shoppers Memories

Kmart Shoppers Memories

Sodus MI Fire Station Siren

Sodus MI Fire Station Siren

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  • @mbart5113
    @mbart51134 күн бұрын

    What happened to the Humpty Dumpty/Humpty Alexander Dumpty thing at 12:11?

  • @kennyearl6527
    @kennyearl652727 күн бұрын

    Is there still a tavern on semi northern part of river rd?

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon329227 күн бұрын

    No taverns anywhere in this area.

  • @roserader2977
    @roserader2977Ай бұрын

    Where's Badts Drugs store?? Gee I don't recognize anything in town. What's that white shite all over the ground?

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292Ай бұрын

    Times has changed. Snow.lol

  • @roserader2977
    @roserader2977Ай бұрын

    You know our property backed up to it and I of course worked there a a kid. I heard Leonard is ill you hear anything? Hugs Rose.

  • @williamretseck1592
    @williamretseck1592Ай бұрын

    Just did this same drive last week- stopped at 3 antique malls and bought some goodies at the Harbert Swedish Bakery

  • @BrianBrownDr
    @BrianBrownDrАй бұрын

    Actually, you drove around the CITY of David as reorganized by Mary Purnell, or commonly called, [Mary's] City of David. All the property east of the iconic star belongs to the City of David, a separate entity, which was a break-off sect of th House of David when co-founder "King" Benjamin "Ben" Purnell couldn't keep in his pants, so co-founder and his wife, Mary, split off. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!

  • @BrianBrownDr
    @BrianBrownDrАй бұрын

    Should make sticky.

  • @morrisp
    @morrisp2 ай бұрын

    My hometown!

  • @PamelaZandarski
    @PamelaZandarski2 ай бұрын

    Lived in one of those cabins MANY years ago

  • @BrianBrownDr
    @BrianBrownDrАй бұрын

    Hi Pam!

  • @PamelaZandarski
    @PamelaZandarski2 ай бұрын

    lets not show the real Hoods!!!

  • @teecee9854
    @teecee98543 ай бұрын

    Wow..!😮

  • @tamanthamckinley3504
    @tamanthamckinley35044 ай бұрын

    I used to live 1041 Euclid in 1999 and went to Martindale school, I had some of the times of my life living in Benton Heights. We moved back to Louisiana in 2001

  • @tamanthamckinley3504
    @tamanthamckinley35044 ай бұрын

    I remember moving from Louisiana in 1996 and going there then leaving and coming back in December of 1999 and having the best teacher Mrs. Reese and drinking coffee every morning with hazelnut creamer which is my favorite till this day

  • @chasedadjones6859
    @chasedadjones68595 ай бұрын

    A lot of memories in that mall! Thank you for showing the pictures, seen alot of friends and family!

  • @benghist1451
    @benghist14515 ай бұрын

    Looks like you started in the mono ceramics parking lot i used to work there

  • @user-gs5gn6fo5j
    @user-gs5gn6fo5j6 ай бұрын

    I grew up in Watervliet and Deer Forest is where I had my first job at in the summer of '76

  • @TheOtteroo
    @TheOtteroo6 ай бұрын

    If you ever get back there again, tell Barbara that Richard From Park Inn, said Hi. She’s probably in one of the bigger buildings, maybe even the Museum, I just know her house was really big.

  • @paulietteburnett7270
    @paulietteburnett72707 ай бұрын

    Taffy T needs! help there's trying to kill me, Terra Novo

  • @user-bm7by3mu7m
    @user-bm7by3mu7m8 ай бұрын

    Who cares about this town 😂😂😂

  • @danielfrancis3736
    @danielfrancis37368 ай бұрын

    I lived here for many years as a child and then a teenager/young adult. Haven't been back in over a decade. Glad to see it hasn't changed much.

  • @golfer1932
    @golfer19329 ай бұрын

    It would be nice if you would inform us what roads are on. Where was the supermarket at? Were you going too fast and went right by it?

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon32929 ай бұрын

    It was on Territorial

  • @dustinhellstern7728
    @dustinhellstern77289 ай бұрын

    Usually people put some kind of date…anything like that.

  • @tnelson4593
    @tnelson459310 ай бұрын

    Dowagiac is a small city. But it has a lot of history. Once called the Furnace Capital of the world. ( Stove Town) Most of the furnace and Stove manufacturers were in Dowagiac,Mi. Fishing Lures also Heddon baits. James Heddon lived in Dowagiac in the late 1800s. He invented the artificial fishing lure. Heddon had a factory in Dowagiac until 1984. The History Museum is definitely worth the drive to see.

  • @tobyradenbaugh8965
    @tobyradenbaugh896510 ай бұрын

    Salt of the Earth people They had a superior and more sustainable model for society back in the early 20th The .01% were threatened by this model and its raging success THATS why it ended rather abruptly

  • @MaryEvans-ut2qy
    @MaryEvans-ut2qy10 ай бұрын

    I worked at MURPHYS CAREER FASHIONS IN BENTON HARBOR SHE USED ME TO MODEL HER CLOTHS I WAS 42

  • @user-ov8gw1wd2f
    @user-ov8gw1wd2f10 ай бұрын

    Drive-thru Covert Michigan and make sure to stop by the beach there.

  • @joshbriggs7759
    @joshbriggs775910 ай бұрын

    I finally got to try the new bypass today, I love it!

  • @atsavvy6.0
    @atsavvy6.010 ай бұрын

    I adopted a little Donkey named Popeye who was taken from that property 13 years ago .

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon329210 ай бұрын

    Oh the memories...

  • @tycobb2580
    @tycobb258010 ай бұрын

    wow, I use to live there . . but I can't remember

  • @robertprestonsr2453
    @robertprestonsr245311 ай бұрын

    Hey Don... next time maybe go on out to Scottsdale... and take a peek at the Mark III restaurant... then backtrack just a bit and cut over (west) on Glenlord Rd.... Takes you eventually past Santonello's Italian restaurant... and next cut by Tosi's restaurant on the back road by the beach... and cut farther back on the beach road to "Grande Mere" exit by I-94 and then go up the hill to see the Racine's Grande Mere Inn... now there is some great eateries... (and you are not far from Tabor Hill) or the Cubbie's Getaway in Bridgeman.. enjoy

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon329211 ай бұрын

    Sound like a great idea. Thanks

  • @shadowofchaosfpv4683
    @shadowofchaosfpv468311 ай бұрын

    6:50 Lakeland Health Park, from above. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHeOzcyoo92zhMY.htmlsi=hN8--TJDAZ0gYDAz

  • @shadowofchaosfpv4683
    @shadowofchaosfpv468311 ай бұрын

    This is me flying over Downtown by the tracks. Next to the cop shop. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZ2kxriHdae2k5s.htmlsi=VS0FLKvrWPdY8_3D

  • @thehunter9430
    @thehunter943011 ай бұрын

    Benton heights is where I was raised and it will always be home. I went to Martindale school k to 6 in the 90s .

  • @thehunter9430
    @thehunter943011 ай бұрын

    I went there k to 6th in the 90s. Good times.

  • @MisterMikeTexas
    @MisterMikeTexas11 ай бұрын

    I think I'll go to the K Grille, and get that $1 turkey dinner! Then see if there's another Blue Light Special at the front of the store. The old Kmart had more character than today's Walmart. What was that Creedence Clearwater song? "Let the Blue Light Special shine a light on me"? 😊

  • @mdgraystone
    @mdgraystone11 ай бұрын

    Wait, go back to page three! I think I saw something I need.

  • @lindastone8294
    @lindastone8294 Жыл бұрын

    My Dad Coy Tyndall is in it.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Nice! .. you seen the pic from video?

  • @lindastone8294
    @lindastone829411 ай бұрын

    Yes he was a Senior that year. @ 4:38. Btw love your driving vids! @@drivingdon3292

  • @howardradford1985
    @howardradford1985 Жыл бұрын

    Seriously Kmart Australia expand into the US. Transformco is not going to revive the brand and you'll have instant name recognition.

  • @tcidolfan
    @tcidolfan Жыл бұрын

    I miss Kmart!!! My family used to shop there on the regular!!

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @DriftyAlison0
    @DriftyAlison0 Жыл бұрын

    I miss it to. Shame we will only have Miami and new york after Sept.

  • @oldscratch3540
    @oldscratch3540 Жыл бұрын

    I went there K through 6th in the 60's and 70's.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Nice! ...You been there awhile then for sure.

  • @oldscratch3540
    @oldscratch3540 Жыл бұрын

    😢 sad

  • @charlottegrams8196
    @charlottegrams8196 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video, but really crappy music background.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the input. Looking to change it. It sounds too depressing.

  • @tycobb2580
    @tycobb2580 Жыл бұрын

    yes, thanks for uploading . . . I remember the churchs, and that's about it

  • @ES-mc3cc
    @ES-mc3cc Жыл бұрын

    Lived in Lakecrest Ravine Manor there on Cleveland Ave from 1979 'til 1983. Brings back memories!

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    My sister in law did as well late 90's had some good times there with friends.

  • @tobyradenbaugh8965
    @tobyradenbaugh8965 Жыл бұрын

    HOME ❤️ Been gone too long living in SC - 30 yrs I know why you are doing this and its a great idea Thank you Don 👍

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, But why do you think i'm doing this? Just curious to know. I shall let you know afterwards. Thanks

  • @tobyradenbaugh8965
    @tobyradenbaugh8965 Жыл бұрын

    For posterity is my guess

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    @@tobyradenbaugh8965 Exactly.. it would be nice to see how things were on video 100+ years ago of this area. I already made videos of buildings that are now gone or soon will be, Motels/Church. I am working on some schools that are empty as well.

  • @tobyradenbaugh8965
    @tobyradenbaugh8965 Жыл бұрын

    Yes! I still marvel at the foresight of people who took the old videoes also on youtube of the streets of Chicago and NYC - decades ago. You are that person👌 You will be legend 100 yrs from now ( if we are still around as a species) Its critical we understand everything about the past, right? And keep records on it HISTORY matters Orwell knew

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    @@tobyradenbaugh8965 You are correct. history matters. Thank you sir for your input. Also I do hope humans as species will be around to enjoy them 100 yrs from now as it seems, but very true.

  • @tycobb2580
    @tycobb2580 Жыл бұрын

    03:55 I remember Ruth . . . what a bitch . . .

  • @oldscratch3540
    @oldscratch3540 Жыл бұрын

    Wow man, that sucks for somebody.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, was a total loss.

  • @brendalofton4761
    @brendalofton4761 Жыл бұрын

    So sad, I lost my home to fire in 2009 and my grandson who was 3.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    I am sorry to hear that. That is so sad. I can't even imagine how that must of been. I think I would of lost it.

  • @brendalofton4761
    @brendalofton4761 Жыл бұрын

    I did for a few years. But I learned to cope...most of the time...by the grace of God.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Amen to that. God is great.

  • @s10jam
    @s10jam Жыл бұрын

    This was planned or it just happened?

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    No it happened few days ago after this video.

  • @tomscheffler7046
    @tomscheffler7046 Жыл бұрын

    A sad day. Benton Harbor loses another land mark.

  • @drivingdon3292
    @drivingdon3292 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, I agree. I'm sure it will not be restored and hauled away.

  • @elsyefrans163
    @elsyefrans163 Жыл бұрын

    Tertip paradenya yg nonton ndak berdesakan .