The Snowy Streets of Calumet Michigan | Yooper Life
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- Calumet, Michigan. Often refereed to as...Copper Town U.S.A. is a beautiful village located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Even though I live in the UP, I was still amazed at the snow of Calumet.
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Welcome to my channel, Life in the UP. My name is Angela and I live in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula, the U.P. Life in the UP is about more than our winters, which can be long and harsh, but so beautiful. I love to bake and I may share recipes. I also love to travel and I plan to take you along. Thanks for joining me on this journey.
My husband loves cold weather, loves hunting and fishing, and so when he retires we plan on moving to MI. We will have to visit during the winter so he can see what it will be like.
If you like lots and lots of snow, you should check out the UP...if you just like regular snow, the rest of Michigan is beautiful and would make a great home.
Where do you live now
IF YOU IN UP IN CALUMET,, YOU GOING TO NEED (( LONG JOHN's )),, or TWO..
We are near Seattle now so maybe a day or two of snow most years. When we were up in Canada in the winter he was wearing shorts outside in like 3 feet of snow.
Nuttin beder dan snow daze at dah Grey Hackle! Man I miss the 1970's
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Loved this! You missed the Calumet Theater though, and George Gipp's memorial (Win one for the Gipper!)
Thanks. I think we will have to make the drive back to Calumet someday soon to see the things we missed.
I'm so homesick even with all the snow this year I would take it any day
It really is someplace special, eh.
I know what you mean. Last year I spent two weeks in Texas while snow was raging here.... I love traveling, but I missed it and was glad to come back.
my great grandfather worked in the copper mines. Thanks for the tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've been to Calumet just as tourist many a years ago! Another beautiful town if the U.P. I so love the U.P. except for all that snow!
It is a beautiful city...the snow makes it look like a winter wonderland.
I'm from Boston but my father & I have been to the U.P. several times for deer hunting season, absolutely love it there.
The snow keeps out most people and that's a good thing. Stay away
:)
It takes a strong person to live in such a harsh climate.
Lol
@@LifeintheUP harsh? What is harsh about some snow? Yet, I don't care because as long as it keeps people from moving here it's a good thing.
I was born and raised in the UP. People from down below are ruining it. I agree.... stay out.
You are very welcome to keep it, ALL OF IT! 😊
My husband and I love Calumet! We usually visit in September, but this snowy video is fantastic! If I were younger I would love to live there.
It was so fun to visit in the winter.
Some people there put up wooden walkways in the winter to go for the front door, over the snow, to the road or sidewalk. Gets to be a lot of snow to deal with .When you go there again, check out some of the little shops, and also restaurants there. :)
That is so interesting about the wooden walkways. I would love to visit the shops in Calumet. We will have to plan a trip just for that. Thanks!
Thanks for the ride.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'd love to see Calumet in the springtime. I bet those old buildings look really beautiful.
I think I should take a spring tour of the Upper Peninsula this spring, eh.
@@LifeintheUP That'd be amazing! :)
Looks like a fun place to visit but living there full-time is a different story.
I think most people feel that way...but what a beautiful area of the country, eh.
@@LifeintheUP Absolutely! It's gorgeous!
Enjoyable drive Dutch and Angela☺ Youse guys stay warm up there eh?
You found an older video. That was a fun drive, we should go again soon.
I grew up off and on in the U.P. , went to Highschool in Lake Linden for a bit.
Sounds like you got a good start in life.
Shoveling roofs is a b___h. Don't ask me how I know! I started very young, so my dad gave me a short handled coal shovel.
The reward afterward was jumping off the roof over and over into the snow that was almost to the roof gutters!
At least you were rewarded with fun after all of that hard work. Thanks for watching!
Where did u live
Slip slide up to the. Snow gage. Show America how much snow we get 😦❓ Too bad ya didn't get in those church's. Would've
Liked to seen the insides ✝️😀
Looking forward to seeing the snow gage 🌡️
www.pasty.com/snow/
Lots of snow means lots of winter fun.
Yes, fun and sometimes a lot of work. :)
Really cool
Thanks!
I think the Copper Dog sled race starts in Calumet. I would love to see it!
retiring in 2 years and considering calumet---looks beautiful---def will need a snowmobile if i moved there though
Yes!
Snowblower, too. Have someone tell you about the doors on the 2nd floors. In case you get snowed in deep.
This is officially my first winter video of Calumet. Wow, those are some snow banks.
The snow banks were crazy big!
Is the Parkside Bakery still open? The most wonderful food ever.
Burned down along with most of the block in May
To think that at one time there were nearly 30,000 people between Calumet and Laurium. It's around 2000 now.
That would explain the number of abandoned buildings we saw last year, especially on the west side of town.
Calumet almost became the state capital in 1850's when copper was king. Go down thru Laurium then down past the stamp sand mounds in the lake
The church which is now the Restore was a Finnish church which held funerals for many of the victims of the Italian Hall disaster in 1913 Christmas Eve
That is interesting. I did not know that. Thank you for sharing.
@@LifeintheUP There are pictures online of the funeral(s) inside the church with multiple caskets near the altar
@@TRKEWEENAW So many lives lost. Such a sad time for the community.
@@LifeintheUP Around 1979-1980 i actually went into the building looking for the owner
Noone was around
I walked up those stairs into the main room with the small stage where the party had been and imagined the scene
Eerie and melancholy feeling to say the least. I am glad that I had that experience as the building is no more
I been in the church for Grandpa and grandma's funeral.
Can you post videos of McLain camp ground and the damage from Lake Superior?
I would love to, but I don't make it to that part of the U.P. very often. I think I will have to plan another trip.
Hi there! Just saw your channel. We are from up here too and have a channel as well. Nice to meet you all. ❤️❄️
Welcome! I will have to check your channel when I get a chance.
@@LifeintheUP All good! No worries or hurries. 🙌🏻☕️
Calumet is where grandpa mikkola was born and raised. My great aunt Sylvia kessala my grandma' best friend used to live there. Grandma forst mikkola lived in Hancock. 💘
You betcha
:)
Where are you originally from? Obviously not originally from the U.P.
Midwest... nasal harsh tone, but no Fargo. So, not the dakotas.
Hard to believe you drove around Calumet all day and never made it to the brewery or the Italian Hall historic site. But, yea, there's lots of snow in Calumet. Or, as they say up there, "Nine months of winter and three months of bad sledding."
Thanks for watching. Maybe the next drive will take us to those stops.
So what I want to know is what was the date that day? 224.1” of snow was no doubt after Jan 1, but by what date had they reached that depth of snow?
That is a good question. Calumet got even more snow after we took that drive through that quaint little area of the UP.
Erie, PA had around 200 inches winter of 2002/03, which is about double the average for Erie. Looks like the UP gets at least this much most winters😀
Houghton, Michigan can reach 360" of snow
You missed the original beautiful Tiffany Canopy over the bar at Shute’s Bar.
Now I have an excuse to go back. Thank you.
This town is mom's childhood stomping grounds in the 1930's and 1940's.
lol..you should see the snow white pine gets.......
I'll bet!
You have a strange gleeful tone about the churches being closed. I think it’s admirable that when the mining shut down and the population dropped 90% they repurposed some well built church buildings.
I own a house in Calumet I hope to retire in. It’s a nice small UP community.
It has been two years since I shared this video, and found it confusing that you would say we sounded gleeful about closed churches, so I watched it again. I believe you have misunderstood us. Calumet is a lovely town with beautiful church buildings. We love to see old buildings, especially from the inside, if possible, which is why we went into the restore. We were not gleeful over the closure of churches. I will admit that we were almost gleeful over the sight of so much snow. While we live in the Upper Peninsula ourselves, and are used to dealing with a ton of snow, we do not get the snow that Calumet gets and found it fascinating. Thanks for watching and commenting. Best of luck to you in your retirement in Calumet. If you record your own video of the town, I would love to see it.
Some of the miner's houses in the UP are on the historic register.
Where is Lefty?
Wow, that’s a lot of snow!
No kidding, they get a ton of snow there.
"Wanna check it out?" Her reply: "Not really...." lmao.
Very interesting. A lot of snow for sure. I've never been to Calumet but many years ago I corresponded (pen pal) with someone who lived there who was quite the eccentric character. Even though s/he was transgender, he never transitioned to a female and as far as I know he still lives in Calumet.
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Thank you.
They can get 24 inches of snow overnight.
My brother lives there
Do you get to visit him?
@@LifeintheUP yup .
People up there fight were they push there snow
They do indeed.
I have friends in Cooper city the whole area is awesome😁😁
How do people make a living up there?
Specifically in Calumet, or the whole of the Upper Peninsula?
@@LifeintheUP Keweenaw area.
@@randykroells8049 idk. Decent amount of jobs in houghton. And logging
The last copper mine closed in 1968
Where is home for this videos authors? Troll, asking for a friend. 😊
In the great white UP
Not as much as some years. They can get worse then that.
That was last year. I should visit again this year, eh.
Well, not life in the u p. Your video should have been titled visit to the U P.
Hello Craig! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Great suggestion, and I will say, it is not always easy coming up with titles for my videos. I struggle with that at times. That being said, maybe you missed that this video is titled, The Snowy Streets of Calumet Michigan. I did debate calling it a Visit to Calumet, but there was so much snow on the roads at that time, it seemed an appropriate title.
You guys sound like you're from Wisconsin! 😂
That is funny. Wisconsin is a pretty close neighbor.
@@LifeintheUP I know lol I live in Munising
Gosh Angela and Dutch are u on strike too? People like you, so you have responsibilities now.👴 Where is THE NEW VIDEO lol.
Thank you for reaching out. I have been crazy busy and have not had time to edit any videos. I am hoping to get to it later today so that I have a video for tomorrow.
No hurries, I know: "passion brings a roses or tulips" (I hope, that I translated correctly).
Why would you expect churches to be unlocked? If services aren't going on, why would you go there? Churches have lots of expensive sound equipment, etc. They also don't need people tracking in muck from their wet snow boots.
We have visited many churches during non service times and quite often they are open and will welcome people in to look around or spend time in prayer.
I remember when even my city church was always open. Ok, it was 30 years ago. But, little towns could still leave side doors open.
Lady has bad attitude , badmouth their town .
No badmouthing going on. It is a great town.
I think she doesn't really want to move where there is so much snow.