This week’s Back to the Present, from the Ford Archives, shows The Ford Commissary or the Ford Store, at the southeast corner of Woodward and Carpenter avenues in Kingsford in about 1925-1930.

The Ford Commissary opened Nov. 13, 1922, under the management of Richard E. Boll, who had been a businessman in Channing for many years.

The single-story brick building measured 115 by 50 feet, and had a full basement that contained cooling rooms for storing fruits and vegetables. The store was stocked with staple and fancy groceries, men’s and boys’ working clothing, shoes, and fresh and salted meats. The facility was open to the general public as well as the employees of the Michigan Iron, Land & Lumber Company, later a part of the Ford Motor Company.