The CreeMee story began in the early fifties in a cornfield on the corner of Grand River Ave. and Bridge St. Harold Borgess and Fred Meade were the original owners of the business and after a few years found it conflicted with their main businesses of running a flower shop (Harold) and a Pharmacy (Fred).
Over the winter of 1955-56, Marv Thrasher purchased the CreeMee. In the spring of 1956, he quit his job as shop floor supervisor of quality control at TRW, cashed his last paycheck to put change in the register, and began his journey.
For the first few years, the CreeMee was open from late March/early April through October. The rest of the year Marv worked as a model maker for Lans Corporation and Aero Detroit carving out full-scale mahogany models for the dies used to make auto bodies.