Happy Thanksgiving from the Detroit Historical Society! Enjoy this home movie of the 1947 Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade. The film shows the Thanksgiving parade on Second Avenue, filmed from the street's southwest side, south of Prentis Street. Kroger, the Bronx Bar, a laundry service, and S. Kanners and Company stand in the background along the opposite side of Second. The majority of the floats have a nursery rhyme theme and are labeled with titles either along their sides or on the banners o
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It’s that time of year when lots of families head out to the area’s many cider mills. This Feature Friday we’re taking a look at a pair of home movies from our collection that show Yates Cider Mill and the neighboring Clinton River in the 1950s. The first is scanned in high definition directly from the original 8mm film, while the second survives as an amateur VHS transfer from the original film. Check out both films in full through our online collection: https://detroithistorical.pastperfectonl
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Check out this week's Featured Friday⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🎟This clip is from a 1959 16mm film called "The Long Ships Passing," highlighting freighters on the Great Lakes. This clip shows a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker in action, breaking up ice near Mackinac Island. You can watch the full film on the Detroit Video History Archive📲https://bit.ly/3r4kqL0 Feature Friday is our weekly series spotlighting material from our Detroit Video History Archive🎬 | Detroit Historical Society
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In 1924, the J.L. Hudson Company held Detroit’s first Thanksgiving Day Parade! This Feature Friday, thanks to an undated silent 16mm home movie, we travel back to one of the very first, if not the very first parade. While the modern parade is synonymous with Woodward Avenue, this film offers a glimpse of the original route of the parade that began at Second Avenue and Amsterdam Stree, running south along Second to Vernor Highway (Where I-75 now runs). The parade proceeded east along Vernor to Wo
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