- Date
- circa 1977-06
- Kind
- Business
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- economycommercetourismcommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The June 1977 Beaver Beacon reports three summer business changes: Castaways opened under Jack Martin; Archie and Mark LaFreniere leased the former LaFreniere Store for a second gift shop; and the Dick Burris family operated the purchased Stanley Floyd Car Rental as “The Livery,” a rental and taxi service.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper business notices, not deeds, licenses, leases, financial records, or complete operating histories.
Sources
- Reports Castaways opening for the summer under Jack Martin, Archie and Mark LaFreniere leasing the old LaFreniere Store for a second gift shop, and the Dick Burris family purchasing the Stanley Floyd Car Rental and operating it as “The Livery,” a car-rental and taxi service. It does not provide deeds, licenses, leases, financial records, or complete operating histories. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1977-06_Beaver-Beacon
- The held ten-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the business notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-06_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “New Beaver Island summer businesses open or change management, 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-new-businesses-summer-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1977, “New Businesses.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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