#Pontiac Michigan

[shaunaj48340]

Happy Thanksgiving Days!!!!

[themothmancassettes]

So the property tour huh?

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Lafayette Grande Banquet Facility - Pontiac, MI

[vintagecamping]

Heading to the lake for some camping and canoeing

Michigan

1952

[20th-century-railroading]

"GTW Pontiac, Mi."

Grand Trunk Western SW900 7266 rests between assignments in front of the Pontiac, Michigan administration building. That building also housed the signal and engineering departments, dispatchers offices and with the yard office up top - October 24, 1975.

[detroitlib]

View of the Stout Memorial Library in Pontiac, Michigan. Printed on front: "Pontiac, Mich. Stout Memorial." Printed on back: "The Hugh C. Leighton Co., manufacturers, Portland, Me., U.S.A. Made in Germany 5583."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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[shaunaj48340]

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone, but My parent love Valentine's Day and I love it!

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

June 2nd, 1763: Pontiac's War. Ojibwe warriors in the Great Lakes region capture Fort Michilimackinac by using a game of lacrosse as a diversion.

[zombilenium]

Qatar in a few years!

The old Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan,

Former home of the Detroit Lions

[elvis1970s]

The first of two New Year concerts Elvis performed was 1975-76; one night at the Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, to a record in-person audience of over 62 000. Newspaper reports of the time conveyed the excitement with headlines, 'Elvis Still Shakes 'em Up', and 'The Legendary Elvis Dazzles New Year's Eve Stadium Crowd'. The $800 000 gross for the night also attracted widespread publicity, at that time a record for a single performance by a solo artist.

The time of year, and the unprecedented size of the venue, created a number of challenges. The weather was freezing, described by a concertgoer as 'the worst ice-storm ever', and there was an unfamiliar stage rig; Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick suggested that there was no way Elvis could have pre-approved the design which left him isolated on a catwalk several feet above the main stage, making the usual eye-contact and unspoken communication with the band impossible.

It appears the audience remained generally patient and did not allow the sense of excitement to be undone by ticketing mix-ups, troublesome sound and the freezing temperatures, as well as a seemingly endless pre-programme which on this occasion also included a group named Bodie Mountain Express, a side project of Colonel Parker who was trying to get them signed with RCA.

The Detroit News;

"...Inside the stadium, there were some hassles over tickets. A few fans complained of duplicated seat numbers. Others, most of them $15 stadium floor seat ticket holders who were unprepared for the booming acoustics of the arena, complained about the sound. Others weren't happy about their distance from the stage, but many Elvis fans seemed content to watch 1976 come in through a pair of binoculars...Presley hit the 50-yard line stage - a platform 10 feet off the stadium floor, surrounded by speakers and connected to his dressing room by a 70-yard tunnel - At 11:10 pm; women in glittery dresses and billowing pantsuits joined kids in a rush toward the stage. Lots of screaming. Everything flickered as a generation of flashcubes meets oblivion..."

Early in the show, Elvis tore the seat out of the 'rainfall' jumpsuit and had to leave the stage to change into the 'white V-neck', on his return joking about being a 'quick change artist'.

It was the most ambitious single performance since Aloha, and once again, after some nervous moments, and in almost impossible conditions, Elvis rose to the challenge.

The Pontiac Silverdome was demolished in 2018.

[renaissancedreams]

This was one of the best rap albums to drop last year. I’m grateful to have been able to do the art direction/visual marketing for it. Make sure you hit play on this.

[frenchcurious]

Pontiac GTO 1964 devant la Royal Pontiac d'Ace Wilson à Royal Oak, MI. - source Michael Noun.

[detroitlib]

From our picture files: Oakland County Law Library, Oakland County Court House, Pontiac, Michigan. Pioneer Spring 1966