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- Bryan-Stevenson
- Skinny is as skinny does
- How do you rest in peace
- Riding the footboards
- Alas, hidden from view
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- Exclusive pump
- Bananas, Oysters and Smokey Joe
- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
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- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
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- Yeah, it was cold
- Love those coats
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- Cold
- No expense spared
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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
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- Oh that stove!
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Immigrant Children Meet Santa
Even though my cousin Kathy gave this photo the title "Immigrant children meet Santa for the first time," we were not immigrants, even though it looks like we had just escaped war-torn Warsaw. And we had met Santa many times, despite brother Billy's concerned expression. Taken in 1959 at the Ford Rotunda, Detroit, MI. View full size.
Remembering that day.
It's funny that I remember that day so well. I remember that the LAST place I wanted to be was at the Ford Rotunda Christmas display. I wanted to be home, because the Harlem Globetrotters were going to be on ABC's Wide World of Sports that day, and I wanted to watch. Sadly, we returned home just as the program was ending.
Twilight Zone
Looks like Art Carney's portrayal of Santa in The Night of the Meek from the Zone.
Ford Rotunda in Kodachrome
From my collection of old Kodachrome slides, here is an exterior view and an interior view of the Ford Rotunda. Santa wouldn't be making his 1955 appearance at the Rotunda for another 5 months. The sign in front of the 1956 Ford Fairlane Station Wagon in the interior shot reads, "MICHIGAN leads the nation in the number of state parks and prepared campsites available to the public!"
Bucky Fuller and the Rotunda
Many a home in the tri-county area have photos with Santa at the Rotunda. I never got to see it; it burned down when I was a toddler, although my parents told me it was fantastic. Small consolation to a kid.
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