MrPushbutton wrote:
Here is film of it in action, on the streets of Detroit for the world premiere of "Anatomy of a murder" shot in Michigan's upper peninsula.https://archive.org/details/Anatomyo1959[/quote]

Ahhh. Great video footage. Does my heart good to see the old United Artists theater back in her prime. This was a beautiful, beautiful theater inside. Last time I saw the theater, she was in terrible shape, boarded up, abandoned and unloved. Sad.

And nobody today seems to know it but the same building where the UA theater (shown here on Bagley Avenue) was located was actually the national headquarters of the AAA Automobile Club. I once ran computers for them in this very building which was a wonderful place to work.

The whole area was peppered with classy hotels, restaurants, theaters and night clubs. All gone now.

Directly across the street from the AAA National Headquarters building was the headquarters of the AAA of Michigan. Years later AAA pulled the plug and moved everything to Dearborn.

Just up the street was the fabulous Michigan Theater where Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. once performed... and where Disney's Peter Pan debuted. Incredibly, that beautiful theater was gutted, walls knocked out and turned into a parking lot. Heartbreaking to see.

Should I mention this was all just steps from where Henry Ford once tinkered with cars made out of bicycle parts?

Thanks for the time machine trip back to the glory days...