i just love everything
about this 1955 michigan tourism poster
according to the map
it looks like ann arbor
is the place where you can dance.
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“you live as long as you dance.”
-rudolf nureyev
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poster source: michigan heritage and history
Jan10
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Lovely quote. I think we live as long as we learn. And laugh.
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so true, norah –
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I love the retro look of the poster. Took me a second to realize what she was carrying.
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yes, me too. these old posters and ads are my favs. lots of detail –
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That looks fun!
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it does make it look so fun
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Nice to have uch a fun poster featurng the place where you live.
I doubt Beetley has ever featured on a tourist poster. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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time for you to create one…
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Ollie would be the main attraction of course! 🙂
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As a Michigan native, I love this. Awesome post, Beth.
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thanks, and i thought you might…)
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The perfect American family!
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the picture of one….)
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He should expect a great deal of ridicule from “real” fishermen with that tiny excuse for a fishing pole.
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ha! )
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A joyful poster.
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yes!
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😍🥰
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And look at the old-style posters someone in Ann Arbor is making:
https://www.themightymitten.com/
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❤️
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A “Here We Go” contest
Make your own poster with pictures/quotes/words/whatever about Michigan or any other place/SITUATION. 😉
Wherever we are going ….. I wish we would hurry up and get there. Folks are getting impatient for some action!
(I love Michigan. Visited Ann Arbor and the university many many years ago. Beautiful!)
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That would be a fun contest! Glad you enjoyed your time here
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And just a minute after my previous comment, by pure coincidence I was led to this photographic essay about Ann Arbor:
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Thank you!
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Good post
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Thank you
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That’s awesome. I love those old posters and ads. I know there are many beautiful places out in the United States to see, but there’s so much beauty right here in our home state! Many of those sites I still have yet to see, but plan on it. I have lots of places outside of the state on my bucket list, but I certainly have a lot of places from our state on that bucket list too.
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Voice them too, and feel the same about seeing our state!
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That’s one groovy ad for sure, Beth!
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Digging it!)
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You don’t need legs to dance, you just need heart!
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So right!
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Love it! (♥ω♥ ) ~♪
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❤️❤️❤️
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Ah, the ’50s. Buck and bulk-end shoes, and hormones!
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Yes!!!
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The ad feels like art. And though I ‘can’t’ dance, I do. 🙂
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I think it is art and same with my approach to dancing
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I concur.
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And you can shoot things in Cheboygan and water ski in Charlevoix!
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at least you know where to go to do what!)
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I did carpentry on an estate one summer just outside Charlevoix. It was a great summer!
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that’s a beautiful area –
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I’m a very enthusiastic dancer which many people wish I wasn’t but once I hear the music I find it very hard to sit still.
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exactly the same here, peter
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I love studying vintage print anything. The colors. The fashion. The message. This is just plain fun and exactly what I needed to see on a sub-zero Minnesota Monday morning.
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i love vintage print as well, and happy the timing was good –
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Ah, those were the days.
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lovely, carefree….
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The older art was so perky and happy. 🙂 Lots to do in Michigan, that’s for sure.
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i so agree, it all looks so innocent and whimsical )
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“I should believe only in a God who knew how to dance” Also Sprach Zarathustra, Nietzsche.
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love it
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I am surprised the husband isn’t wearing a tie. Everyone looks so clean and fresh.
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they must have just come from a bath in one of the great lakes
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Fantastic…here we go…amazing how much they got in this ad
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It is really something
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Good poster, though I’m not sure about a tennis racket for the theme of a water wonderland vacation.
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you know, water tennis of course )
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Am I the only one that wonders if she looks like she’s dressed for a fishing or water vacation? I have always loved the old ads without all the glitz and flash.
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I just find them kind of quirky, how they try to throw it all into one picture, and not sure if she’d be wearing it to the beach )
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no need to ever come up with another ad!
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right, this covers it!
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And Tawas City is the place you can swim:)
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yes, that one location )
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It is wonderful. Beth!
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So happy
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