In 1967, the Lake Michigan waves were causing a lot of lakeshore erosion. A St. Joseph man created his own breakwall, shoving junk cars over his bluff. The rusty remains litter the lakeshore 54 years later

Back in the 1930s, work began in St. Joseph on the piers that protect the city's main channel. As that work took shape, it redirected the current of Lake Michigan, pushing it toward the shoreline which started the eroding of the bluff.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, the erosion got so bad, lakeshore residents began constructing breakwalls, hoping to hold back the lake's fury.

"All that did was push the problem to the neighbor next door," said Nathan Voytovick, 26, who grew up in St. Joseph and has become immersed in the city's history. "The people began panicking."

there are more than 150 scrapped cars piled up

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/michigan-life/car-graveyard-hides-below-bluff-linked-to-michigan-history-few-know-about/69-330e8d3c-babf-42ff-8a77-b99b19622125

via Motorius