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Yeah hey so, was I too busy and hot and everything to continue the trip report and just filling my blog with another photo dump? Yes. From visiting Cedar Point in mid-June now, here:
We went to the musical revue, titled Come See About Me ... hm. I wonder what kind of music this might showcase?
Some of the set decorations for the Come See About Me ... show, helping to sell the idea that we're looking at Moe's Town Records used vinyl store.
Not to spoil things but there isn't actually a Hitsville USA street in Detroit, it's a fib.
Doesn't it always happen that you're a shy clerk at a used record store and the hottest band in town descends on your shop and tries to argue you need to show off those great Motown songs by singing them?
And here we go into the store! (The storefront props turn around and they wheel the drum kit and a couple of shelves of records in.)
Won't stop the music, though! I assume Sharky's Market is a spot easily recognized by people more familiar with Detroit and Motown than I am.
Anyway the impromptu concert is so successful that not only do people come in off the street to buy records but even the letter carrier is confused what's going on.
And finally our hero's overcoming his shyness and his band is performing and everybody's having a great time with decades' worth of hit songs.
I am amazed, given the lighting, the smoke, and the dancing, that this picture just came out right.
Our poor record store clerk thinks hard about whether to accept the invitation of that band who dropped in to come to their show and maybe be their opening act or something. Will he accept?
I think he might just be up for this fun and success through popular music thing!
Big finish! With lots of shiny objects and lights, just like you'd hope. Fun show.
Trivia: At the outbreak of World War I around 77 million dollars worth of New York City's bonds and notes were held in Europe. Source: The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History, Edward Robb Ellis. (For scale, in 1913 the entire Woolworths chain did about $66 million in business, also something I source to this book, though an adjacent chapter.)
Currently Reading: The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meaning of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Tubes, Thomas Hine.
