  Polaar Member Username: Polaar Post Number: 22 Registered: 10-2006 |
I found this in some recently unearthed home movies shot by my grandfather, and posted it to youtube today. Some nice color scenes of mid-40s downtown Detroit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Yk0UU9T9pD0 | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 1159 Registered: 08-2007 |
How cool is that? Color film, too! Loved the floats, thanks for posting that. | ||
J_to_the_jeremy Member Username: J_to_the_jeremy Post Number: 37 Registered: 03-2007 |
Around the :15 mark there's something that looks like a photo someone was trying to identify a few weeks ago. I can't find the thread now, but I know someone suggested it was at the World's fair...Apparently not. | ||
J_to_the_jeremy Member Username: J_to_the_jeremy Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2007 |
Found it, here's you're answer, Caquail. https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/120788.html?1196338958 | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 2419 Registered: 01-2005 |
Good work, jeremy. That jumped out at me, too. I was at that parade, but don't remember much about it. Guess I'd of been 10 at the time. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1479 Registered: 04-2006 |
My mom was in the parade. There was a big cake set-up in Grand Circus and she danced on top of the cake with the other little girls from her ballet school. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 4057 Registered: 12-2005 |
Serendipity2! | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 2452 Registered: 07-2004 |
Golden Jubilee of what? | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 2645 Registered: 10-2003 |
What else, but the Automobile!! Last year the Detroit Public Library hosted an exhibit on this subject at the Skillman Branch downtown where their National Automotive History Collection is housed. Their website devoted to that exhibition is still accessible at: http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/G oldenJubileeExhibit/GJ%20WEB/I _1946_Jubilee.htm Here's the introduction: "1946 was a year of tumult and excitement in the Motor City. The Allies had prevailed in World War II, in no small part due to the extraordinary efforts of Detroit's industries. The year also marked the 50th anniversary of the American automobile and the 150th anniversary of the raising of the flag over Wayne County. Detroit was booming and filled with justified pride. This enthusiasm culminated in the Automotive Golden Jubilee. The Golden Jubilee was a salute to the city's wartime industry and its transformation to peacetime bounty and abundance. The Jubilee planners arose from the business community, especially the auto industry, and they planned the massive celebration in just two months. The Jubilee was full of flashy cars, futuristic technology, celebrities, and entertainment representing all of the city's ethnic groups. The economy was in the midst of difficult adjustments from wartime production back to a peacetime consumer economy. Strikes were militant and rampant, especially in the heavy industries of the Midwest. Detroit's unresolved racial tensions and social growing pains seemed more profound than other cities in the industrial belt. The Jubilee was to be a gala event on the scale of a world's fair, which would demonstrate to the entire world Detroit's civic unity and continued prosperity. This is the forgotten story of the awe-inspiring twelve-day spectacle which amplified Detroit's strengths and some of its weaknesses. ..." Subsequent webpages include: Introduction: The 1946 Automotive Golden Jubilee Wartime Detroit: The Arsenal Of Democracy Politics and Pressures: Racial Tensions & Post-War Strikes Planning the Golden Jubilee A Detroit First: Peacetime Atomic Power The Motor City Cavalcade The Automotive Pioneers Detroit's Road to Unity | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 2455 Registered: 07-2004 |
Would it have been too much to ask that the thread had included the word "Automotive" before the words Golden Jubilee? | ||
Gingellgirl Member Username: Gingellgirl Post Number: 99 Registered: 04-2007 |
While searching YouTube, I found this color footage of Detroit, 1954. There are three parts. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =QQxrhiraoUg&feature=related | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 514 Registered: 05-2006 |
Gingellgirl: In that video at about :53 there is a bar called the Brass Rail. I thought it looked familiar. The carvings were relocated and are now the front of Kruse & Muer in Rochester.  | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1323 Registered: 12-2005 |
1948 advertisement:  | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1941 Registered: 12-2005 |
GM sure had a large hand in the event--although the rotating tilt-top table with the car on top looks to be a Nash, at the beginning of the clip. I noticed the Grinell bros. float with the dueling Hammond Organs! |
