Local Reach Michigan · Checked September 17, 2026
You do not need a time machine to begin exploring Walled Lake’s former amusement park. The city library’s local-history resources collect material about the park and Casino, including postcards and newspaper accounts.
The collection points readers toward reporting about the Casino fire and a later “Last Ride” retrospective. Looking at the items together is more revealing than a single photograph: an advertisement shows how a place presented itself, while a later newspaper story shows how people remembered it.
Try a small family-history exercise: choose one image, note its date if provided, and compare it with an account from another year. Keep the source and date with any notes you make, especially when sharing a story about how the shoreline changed.