Much material can be found on YouTube showcasing the narrative history, as well as personal reflections and home video, of Bois Blanc Island's amusement park, known to many generations born since the 1940s as Bob-Lo Island. This is a sampling of some of the videos found in a recent search.
As a general rule, please note these video presentations were submitted freely by individual YouTube members, who may or may not be members of the Facebook "Downriver Things" site, unless otherwise noted. Neither DownriverThings.com nor Weebly.com are responsible for the existing content in the videos, though proper discretion is taken when selecting them for our listing, in order to eliminate those with excessive profanity or less-than-flattering social commentary.
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Official Bob-Lo history video, narrated by legendary TV anchor Mort Crim.
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Rare Super-8 film to video transfer of a day at Bob-Lo in 1972 (silent).
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Scenes at Bob-Lo's Detroit dock near downtown Detroit, circa 1959.
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First-person view of a day at Bob-Lo in the closing years (1991).
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HistoricDetroit.org does a walkthrough of the Columbia, September 2014.
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Documentarian Katie Hawkins explores the remnants of the park (2012).
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