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East Grand Rapids is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,371. [4] The city is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, including Grand Rapids and Grand Rapids Township, but the city is administered autonomously.
D&W Fresh Market was founded in 1943 by Roy Woodrick and Sid DeVries. The first store was opened in Grandville, Michigan as an IGA retail grocery store. [1] It was one of the first grocery stores in Grand Rapids to sell USDA Choice Beef exclusively.
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It was bordered by Wealthy Street on the south, Lovett Avenue on the west and Lakeside Drive on the east. Gaslight Village, strip malls, condos, apartments, and D&W Grocery store now sit where Ramona once was. The East Grand Rapids branch of the Kent District Library has a room dedicated to the amusement park with artifacts.
The lamp was donated by Milt and Barbara Otto, longtime residents of the Eighth Street neighborhood who helped organize the city's first Gaslight Festival, held in 1973.
Wood became a philanthropist for northern New York state through his Charles R. Wood Foundation, donating money to libraries, hospitals and providing seed money for a theater in downtown Glens Falls, New York, which was later named for him, as well as Charles R. Wood Park, a nature park and restored wetland area on the site of Gaslight Village.
Gaslight Village was a Vaudeville themed amusement park in Lake George, New York. The park was located along New York State Route 9N, U.S. Route 9 and Warren County Route 69 (West Brook Road) in the village. It opened in 1959, designed by Arto Monaco and built by amusement park builder Charles Wood.