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The Coaster Craft Corp. in Port Austin, Michigan — that’s the label on this real-photo postcard, showing a busy factory floor with workers, heavy machinery, and stacks of parts.
Coaster Craft is remembered locally for making kids’ scooters and wagons in the 1940s, before the building was later used for other manufacturing purposes. This photo looks like a candid slice of that industrial era — the kind of work that quietly kept a small Thumb community humming.
The building’s story didn’t stop there. The 1943-era scooter factory later housed other manufacturers, then sat vacant for years before being restored and reopened as Pak’s Garage — a seasonal marketplace with independent vendors and a bike shop at 186 E. Spring St.
Do you know what year this was taken, or what product line they’re working on in this scene? Share what you’ve heard or remember.
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