If you seek an Art Deco skyscraper...

                                                                                     (click on to enlarge postcard)
                          
                             The Guardian Building  is a must-see when visiting Detroit!

                             This 40-story skyscraper is one of the finest examples of Art Deco
                             architecture in North America.

                             Designed by architect Wirt Rowland, it was completed in 1929.
                             The Guardian Building is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

                                                      www.guardianbuilding.com

                                  http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/962/Guardian-Building
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If you seek an emerald isle...

    PORT OF ST. JAMES

on Historic

BEAVER ISLAND

                                                                                                                -Bob Miles Photography 

                                                                                                  Postmarked 1970

                                            Dear Pat,

                                            Having a great time staying in a motel.  Trees are

                                            huge here and still lots of color.  I won $2.40 in a

                                            Buck-up game.  Love, Mom   

                   

                   Beaver Island, "America's Emerald Isle", is the most remote of all the inhabited

                   islands in the Great Lakes.  A large percentage of the 600 year-round residents 

                   are of Irish descent.  The Beaver Island Boat Company starts its ferry season on

                   April 1st...

                                                              

                                                                 www.beaverisland.org

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If you seek the muse divine...

  NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP

Interlochen, Michigan

         This is the famous Interlochen Bowl during the season's final concert.  Here over 1,000

         campers perform Liszt's Les Préludes before a huge audience.                                       

                                                                                                                          -camp photo                                          

                       This postcard was sent by a camper to her parents on August 12, 1966.

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Oh, sound the call

To dear old Interlochen,

Land of the stately pine.

Where stalwart hands

And Loyal ever greet thee,

Faithful for Auld Lang Syne.

Old friends you'll meet,

New ones you'll greet,

A welcome you'll ever find.

So sound the call

To dear old Interlochen,

Shrine of the muse divine.

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                                                                www.interlochen.org

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Postcards of a Pleasant Peninsula

   (Postcard folio from the 1960s by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, N.Y.)            

Welcome to CIRCUMSPICE MICHIGAN:  Postcards of a Pleasant Peninsula

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The State Motto of Michigan will explain the title of this blog: 

Si quaeris peninsulam ameonam, circumspice.

"If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you."

Please enjoy the eclectic nature of this collection and check back often for new postings.