Sweet summer trip: Where to get your blueberry fix in southwest Michigan

Mike DeGrandchamp's boast is as big as his sprawling blueberry farm, about half a mile east of Lake Michigan.

"We were in the drive-thru business before McDonald's," he said.

In fact, in the late 1950s - more than 15 years before Mickey D's sold its first burgers from a drive-up window - DeGrandchamp's mom was selling blueberries to vacationers, most of them from the Chicago area, who'd veer off U.S. Highway 31 on the outskirts of South Haven.

Motorists didn't have to get out of their cars at Beatrice DeGrandchamp's roadside stand. A driver would simply roll down the window, hand her a dollar