What we imagine South Lyon looked like in the past?

Sit back and close your eyes and see a "dirt" Pontiac Trail and while going down that country road all you can see is farm land and woods until it touched the clouds in the background. That is how I see Lyon township and South Lyon back then, even in the 1950's when my family moved to Lyon Twp/New Hudson they told me stories of how South Lyon was just the four corners and nothing but woods and fields surrounding it. How have we grown since then, oh how have we grown. Now when you come down the "Paved" Pontiac Trail you see shops and schools and everything else between. South Lyon's main road has changed a lot over the years. Where Larry Foodland is now, that used to be the sledding hill for South Lyon before McHattie Park sledding hill was a twinkle in the town's eye. The depot use to be on Ten mile/Lake St. before moving to the historical village on Dorothy St. that is off of Pontiac Trail. Then there is the South Lyon Hotel and the center of downtown. Which in reality has not change that much at all. That is South Lyon, ever changing but not really underneath. Buildings and people will always come and go, but South Lyon will be here forever though the history that has been told.