AMERICA! “THE PLEASURE PENINSULA” 1964 MICHIGAN TRAVELOGUE DETROIT GROSSE POINTE MD10064
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This 1964 color film episode of the NBC weekly syndicated series “America!” from provides a travelogue view of the state of Michigan hosted by Jack Douglas, highlighting natural wonders and tourist attractions in a colorful tour of the Great Lakes State (TRT 24:51).
Opening titles: “America!” over a montage of United States tourist attractions (0:08). Host Jack Douglas introduces himself. A map of Michigan appears in green, with the surrounding Great Lakes in blue (0:43). Autumnal lakefront forests, sunsets, snowy cabins, skiing. Title card with a lighthouse: “The Pleasure Peninsula” (0:57). The map returns. A montage of lakes, cliffs, rivers, and waterfalls (1:30). Girls play catch with a beach ball while running along the coast of Lake Michigan near Muskegon (2:10). The privately owned Old Presque Isle Lighthouse, originally built in 1840, overlooks a harbor on Lake Huron. Lighthouse keeper Francis Stebbins, who restored the property, speaks. A couple enters the lighthouse and takes in the view from the top. A fresnel lens in closeup (2:33). Welch’s Dock in Sault Ste. Marie. A ferry loads passengers for a sightseeing tour. The Soo Locks, which join Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes via the St. Marys River. A cargo freighter passes through the locks (3:58). A log boom of floating wood extends into the horizon. A Welch Lock Tours ferry (4:31). A ghost town, Fayette Historic State Park and Harbor, nestled along a bluewater cove. An iron ore sample and former smelting sites. A tourist takes in the sights (4:52). A wood carved sign with a racist depiction of a Native American Indian chief for “Black River Valley Parkway.” Ottawa National Forest in the Upper Peninsula’s Bruce Crossing. A family at a scenic overlook. The Black River and waterfalls: Gorge Falls and Potawatomi Falls. A swinging bridge and viewing platform (5:57). Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains State Park. A couple hikes a footpath along a cliff (6:55). Tahquamenon Falls in the U.P. (7:36). An aerial view of Isle Royale in Lake Superior (7:52). A sea plane with a propeller-driven engine (8:02). Rock Harbor Lodge. Rock Harbor Lighthouse (8:26). A woman sketches a landscape of the lighthouse (9:04). A fisherman, Peter Edison winds a net and pushes a wheelbarrow (9:24). “Game Haven” a gift shop, trophy room, and wildlife corral in Wolverine, within Cheboygan County, hosts a buffalo herd, deer, antelope, reindeer, and elk (9:50). In Ironwood, a then-new 52-foot fibreglass and steel Native American archetype, known as “Hiawatha, World’s Largest Indian” (10:56). Dutch style wooden clogs. Holland Michigan’s roadside billboards for its “Dutch Village and Restaurant.” Blooming dahlias, a model stork. The pseudo-Dutch tourist attraction’s colorful architecture (11:41). The skyline of Detroit, seen from Windsor, Canada. Downtown Detroit. Woodward Avenue. Marshall Fredericks’ Spirit of Detroit statue (12:52). A sign: “Lakeshore Rd.” in Grosse Pointe. Residential mansions in the Wayne County suburb (13:36). Greenfield Village’s gated entrance, “The Edison Institute,” now the Henry Ford. The Ford Museum Building replicates Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. A London-style mechanical clock. A portrait of Henry Ford (13:54). Historical interpreters reenact candle making, a milliner’s store. A montage of women’s hats through the ages (14:37). The birthplace of Henry Ford, relocated with a placard (15:54). The brick garage where Ford built his first cars. An 1898 automobile with kerosene headlights (16:04). The Wright Brothers’ Cycle Shop, relocated from Dayton, Ohio. Photos of Ford with Wright, Thomas Edison. Edison’s laboratory (17:06). Models of Edison’s first light bulb, telephone microphone, and cylinder phonograph (17:48). A paddlewheel riverboat, the “Swanee” (19:13). The touring steamship South American leaves Detroit for Lake St. Claire, Lake Huron, and Mackinac. Cargo vessels (19:38). On-ship entertainment. Mackinac Island: A horse-drawn carriage, Little Bob’s Restaurant, Ryba’s Fudge Shop. Narration mentions “Fudgies.” Rental Bikes. A Borden’s milk truck, covered in balloons. A carriage ride past the Chatterbox Restaurant (20:28). The Grand Hotel’s red carpet (22:20). A montage of stills (22:53). Historic Fort Mackinac, cannons, historical reenactors. The Grand Sable Sand Dunes. End credits: “Produced by George Flournoy” (23:27).
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Visited the UP on our summer holiday in 2008 when my children were young. Not many British visitors to the U.S. ever go there (most stick to the big coastal cities or Florida) so we got an amazingly warm welcome. We still have the copper Xmas tree decoration we bought in Houghton, where we also ate at Joe's Famous Fish & Chips. Many happy memories!😁
Come back! The UP hasn't grown in population, especially houghton, so it'll be fairly similar
I'm so happy you and your family, took the time to come explore Northern Michigan!! Please come explore our state some more!
My dad was born and raised in the upper peninsula, but moved to Detroit after he got out of the army, but half my family still live up there on our family farm (been in the family for 150 years) so I visit every year to help work on the farm
I was born in Michigan , my parents divorced when I was 12 and moved us to Texas . It took me over 40 years and a lifetime to make it back and it is as beautiful as it was when I was a child . Waterways are Crystal Clear these days and camping and outdoor activities are everywhere . I am so happy to be home .
whats up with the michigan-texas connection? I can't be the only one to notice.
@@wrongfootmcgee During the 80's when the automotive industry started declining rapidly, many people left MI for TX for jobs.
Hemingway loved Michigan and spent a great deal of time here from childhood on.
This is so cool. Born in Michigan in 93 and been here my whole life. Been to almost every place on this video and I love seeing how great things were! I don’t mind all the tourism if people nowadays would clean up and respect our land!
I grew up in Michigan during this time period. Never saw the Mackinac Bridge, UP, or Lake Superior. The farthest north I ever traveled was to Grayling and Traverse City. Back in the 1960s, most of Michigan's inland waterways were badly polluted, as were all the Great Lakes. Thanks to environmental laws enacted in the 1970s, water quality has greatly improved. Loved seeing the old Detroit skyline. Thanks.
Sure missed out on a lot! The Yoop is one of the most beautiful places on earth!
Lake Superior was never polluted to speak of. Duluth had a bit but that was about it. During the copper mining days up to about 1940 or so, mining slag (the crushed rubble left over after the copper was extracted) was dumped in some areas around the Keweenaw, such as in Liminga and Torch Lake, but that only resulted in local pollution of the down current shorelines, as the black slag rock had traces of arsenic in it. Still, people used the black beaches unhesitatingly and still do to a certain extent. The only real consequence was again in Torch Lake, where the local fish were unfit to eat in large quantities.
It was Lake Erie downstream from River Rouge that was severely polluted. Fortunately, as you said, it's been cleaned up significantly to where it's now a major walleye fishery. That's significant because walleye don't do well in polluted waters.
@@lawrencewall3431 Yeah, Lake Erie was the worst. I think Lake Huron was next worst. I remember lots of dead fish washed up on the shore around Saginaw Bay.
@@wtxrailfan The first time I ever flew, from Metro to NYC in 1968, we went directly over Lake Erie and I remember seeing these huge swirls of pollution across the entire lake, which looked like the oil swirls you might see in a mud puddle by a road, only on an immensely larger scale.
Definitely missed out!
Thank you for showing off my state. Even in 1964 it had a lot to offer as it does today, both peninsulas! Have been blessed to see all you showcased here and so much more!
This is so cool to watch! I'm a lifelong Michigander. I've traveled to all of the places listed while living in my van fulltime!
Michigan girl here. Proud to be a small town girl from the great town of Presque Isle, Alpena, Michigan!!! I lost my virginity under 4hat lighthouse and was just there again this summer. Lake Huron is the best! WooHoo! Go big H!
I grew up in Rogers City.
@@mimic7848did you? I miss it so much! I just sold my house on long lake in Nov. Miss it so much but living in phx. How are you? Hope all is well. When did you graduate? I. Old fart, 1976. Take care dear one.
@@doyoulovehimloretta1607 Phoenix? As in Arizona? Come home we have all the water you could want…
@@samiam619 on my way, hope to have a house on Long Lake by the summer 😎
So funny! They never highlighted or even mentioned most of the places we always visited in the summer when we stayed with relatives for a month in Otter Lake (Lower Peninsula) where my mother was born and my dad grew up until 1957 when they moved to Wisconsin. ! Naturally, we always went to Mackinack Island, and my mom even had a flat tire about halfway across the Bridge! We went to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the UP, just outside of Munising in the UP, where we always stopped for pasties (with rutabagas!) and Vernon’s ginger ale and also visited the waterfalls in the area. We stayed in tiny housekeeping cabins right on Lake Superior in a tiny village called Christmas, just down the road, where an enormous Santa Claus greets you, and my husband and I even brought our sons and dogs there for several summers. Anyway, we also loved to go to Frankenmuth (LP), a historic Bavarian town where the food was delicious and where there were several wonderful shops. Then, after my oldest sister and her husband and sons moved to Green Bay, we would take the car ferry from Ludington, MI to Manitowac, WI, right across Lake Michigan, where we would stay for a few weeks, and then head back home to Superior, WI. All of my Michigan relatives we visited years ago are all gone now, except for a few cousins, so my family now rents a townhome somewhere around Lutsen, Minnesota for our yearly summer vacation, bc it’s our favorite place anywhere on the Great Lakes. We live in southeastern WI now, in a city on Lake Michigan, but it’s not Lake Superior!
Love the old films
The woodward dream cruise is still a yearly thing drawing thousands , but pretty much any nice weekend you will see the guys out in their classic cars cruising the strip....
Draws about a million people (tho I think this and last year were exceptions).
The Ducks in the Wisconsin Dells were military vehicles designed for amphibious landings during WWII. They still exist at the Dells and are fun to ride through the woods and in the water.
I am a born & raised Michigander, and I a learned a couple of things I didn't know. Cool.
I went there; stayed in Marquette; at my ex wife's, childhood home , for 6 summers. That is one beautiful relaxing place to be.
Stayed??? Ronald Sippel....
@@Jaque1961 Yes it's a spelling error. I edited it for you. Thanks.
@@RSSIPPEL.ART. You are welcome. I'm a Michigander too.
I love Michigan 💘
My family was already living here in Michigan, when it became a state January 26th of 1837. I was born and raised here also.
Spanning globe shining sea to sea all points in between America shows world Beautiful state of Michigan an its importance..even showcasing Woodward ave where the cops turn a blind eye at big 3 testing their high powered muscle cars 9to5 in broad daylight and for WORLD TOO SEE..thanks periscope
Cruising Woodward was the thing to do on weekend nights in your late teens. Being Detroit, guys would build cars that would pop wheelies or burn rubber for blocks. Drag racing was the thing to do, not to mention meeting girls. Lots of drive-ins up and down Woodward.
Born in san Diego California but moved to Michigan at age 3 and been here since it is the HAND OF GOD I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT A HAND SHAPED STATE..💯💯💯👽👽👽🌏🌎🌍🙏😇🪯💜
I love going up north. We hardly make it all the way into the UP though honestly. There's so much to get distracted by in the north of the lower peninsula
I live 60 miles South of the Bridge. Their trees ain’t much different from OUR trees! And my wife works at Boyne Mountain ski/golf resort.
$2.50 for a boat ticket thru the Soo locks seems like a bargain. Even for back then. In reality, that's over $22 in today's dollar, which seems pretty steep to me. But then again, I'm a tightwad.
The fare for an adult is $33 now.
I've gone on that tour twice. Can't remember what I paid. Did it once as a kid and later in life took my own kids. It was beyond awesome both times and highly recommended.
It's actually pretty dope
I'd like to think think that mr Steppens, lighthouse keeper, is still alive
He passed many years ago. When I stopped there in the 80's his wife was living there.
I looked up Jack Douglas. It sys he also produced a series entitled "The Golden Voyage." I can barely remember those, when I was about 3 or 4 years old, on our old Packard-Bell B&W TV set. Have you found ANY of the old eps of that show?
Born here in 1975. Will die here I'm sure. Been all around both peninsulas
"The Pleasure Peninsula" sounds like quite a different kind of video than this is....
Ten more years and it'd be the title of a porno where all the men have more chest hair than a shag rug.
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@@Doodlesthegreat Not even. I bet there are several like that today...you just have to google 'em.
Is that a lighthouse in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
@@CEOkiller 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Water everywhere. Ice cold, freezing water.
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You can visit the factory and mansion of Thomas Edison in NJ. Him and his wife’s graces are there too. It’s a museum and well worth going.
Birthplace of Thomas Edison, Milan OHIO, can also be visited
Environmentalist tell us that this peninsula will be the most unchanged in the next 20-30 years, compared to the rest of the world during this global warming era.
Kinda, we will definitely be one of the least effected compared to other states but will still have more frequent flooding, higher humidity and longer summers, cold harden plant die off, and erosion of coast line. Though besides that the climate of LP will shift to something similar of the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Appalachia while the climate of the UP will probably be similar to the LP of now but maybe stay the same because of the Lake Superior cooling effect but in general things will change and we might have a second population boom
@@kopfsalat4918 And we have WATER.
@@samiam619 just depends on if we can properly get running clean water without an high lead crisis every couple years but I have hope the water infrastructure is repaired so that'll be a thing of the past
Ryba's Fudge was still there in the 80s. Probably still is, for all I know!
It is, and so is Murdick's Fudge
@@souta95 Glad to hear that! I hope to return to that beautiful island someday.
Gee.. no urban decay.. I guess people lied to me about "the motor city"😅
I thought that Pat Pending was America's greatest inventor...
That volleyball is gone 4 sure
Speaking of Pleasure Peninsulas…
When I think Detroit, I think friendly vacation place. 😹
🪓🤡 southwest ghetto zone
Jeez, what changed? We'll never know..
Unrelated, I don't think many plan on visiting Congo for a calm, pleasant family vacation. But, the Netherlands, maybe.
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2) Why did I get recommended it???
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Fun to see some of this history, even if it was pure propaganda
I love the nature of the U.P but not the culture of Small minded majority White USA which is what’s mainly up that way.
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The title sounds almost pornographic.
mi is not pleasant
I disagree.
Russian Bot. She joined YT only a year ago!
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