Different in his background, growing up in Depression-era Traverse City that was nothing like the sprawling town of today. Unusual in his blunt, straightforward and unsophisticated style. I tried to do what was best for everybody. Weese finished fourth in the three-seat city election race earlier this month. We've got new people in the city.
People are only concerned about their own homes and their own front yards.
They don't really worry about the city as a whole. It's a whole different society today. Weese remembers when the city was, indeed, a whole different society. Born in 1929, Weese remembers how his grandfather traveled by train throughout northern Michigan selling Pillsbury flour. For a time his family lived at his grandmother's fox ranch along Garfield -where they sell Buicks today.