Wow, what an interesting and TIMELY story....you need to check out the Facebook pages 'Memories of Bay City' and 'Putting Bay City Back on the Map'. It's a treasure trove of BC memories, anecdotes and photos!

I would love to see Bay County have an amusement park again or something like Navy Pier in Chicago. It wouldn't have to be huge - but I remember wonderful times on the bay as a child in the 50s & 60s - and I know my parents went dancing an dining at Wenona Beach. I love to visit "home" but sure wish there was more access to the beautiful Saginaw Bay in the Bay City area.

It's a start in the right direction. I think the best thing to come out of any of it would be to finally get serious about the issues with the bay's muck , pollution, overgrowth, and lack of public access while planning development along the shore. Not just talk about it but get busy doing something to fix it so our kids can enjoy what we have here again. It's about time for certain powers that be, who have shot down many very promising options for years to step aside for the doers and innovators. The idea of developing places like "Little Michigan" theme park, casinos, restaurants, ball diamonds and upgraded parks around here might help ease our reliance on big industries for survival (those who have helped to contaminate the water in the first place) and provide a new economic platform. We need to take a chance on creating a family oriented entertainment mecca for growth instead, for all income classes to afford and enjoy, not just a select few, including beaches. What a great way to bring jobs in for our kids just starting out, as well as for seniors and adults struggling to find any significant employment opportunities around here just to make ends meet. We have awesome potential here! What we discover researching our water here will hopefully benefit all of the great lakes. Stop building condos, create entertainment, providing jobs, attracting people, reviving BayCity.

This is the best news this area has heard in a long time. The issues listed have been ignored for far too long and I find it hard to believe that they were not addresses long ago.

The Face Book site of Memories of Bay City should inspire many in our community who long for what was once a vibrant growing community to push forward and bring this community together as it once was.

There were many many great ideas that came from this forum and I urge our "powers to be" to examine it and I challange you to not get excited of what could be here again.

It is time that our children be able to remain here by choice with great employment opportunities instead of being forced to leave because of the lack of job opportunities here now. Bay County and City Hall get moveing !

This is so overdue, that it is astonishing that it was not done 30 years ago. Wenonah Beach was one of the greatest draws to the State of Michigan and literally brought millions of people to Bay County. Think of all that money lost for busineses and the tourism it could generate again. If we get people once again out onto the Bay, the clean up will have to follow, as money makers generate and cause more improvements. The Saginaw Bay is our greatest asset and the most forgotten and abused. This is a step in what should be a plan to revive the entire Wenonah Beach. We needed a trailer park like we needed snake races. Let us revive our greatest attraction with a proven way. Look to the past in design and use. The history of our area is incredible if only we would use it. Gabe Sheridan

Everything at Wenona Beach was a memory by the time I moved to the area. I love the stories old time Bay City residents tell and the exhibits at the Museum downtown are great. The various books with post cards and other pictures just enforce that nostalgic view.

I've long wished for more public access to the Bay, without the need to own a boat. My family and I have walked the State Park beach many times. But it's not the same. A pier and parking on the water would be great. A restaurant and related facilities would be even better.

Is a restored Jackrabbit too much to ask for?

Articles like this make life so much smipelr.