An Interesting Afternoon Downtown

In my adventures in Downtown Royal Oak, this afternoon I experienced the amazing Pizzeria Biga, just north of the railroad tracks on Main Street, across from Oakland Community College.  I also experienced George & Daughters' Hairport, which is also on Main Street, across from Holiday Market.  After these two stops came the Royal Oak Public Library.  Each stop was fascinating in its own right, and each has a history of its own.

Take, for example, Pizzeria Biga which actually used to be the building that housed Billings Feed Store, if I can recall correctly.  This was the days of the 1970s and 1980s.  Then George & Daughters' Hairport, where the woman who cut my hair told me about how long that building has been here in Royal Oak...thirty plus years.  Then, finally, comes the Royal Oak Public Library, in and of itself an historical building.  All three buildings have been around for a long time...two of them I can remember as I had been in them so many times before. 

Yes, Royal Oak indeed has some decades-old architectural treasures, and here begins my journaling of experiences in and history of Royal Oak.  Welcome to how I see the city in which I was born and raised...