PARTY ON; Exhibit recalls Detroit's Golden Jubilee.(Revs)

Byline: JACOB LINGEMAN When an entire exhibition is about remembering a party, well, it must have been a good one. The National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library (www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/nahc) is hosting an exhibit featuring memorabilia from the 1946 Golden Jubilee in Detroit.

The Golden Jubilee was a party set to World's Fair proportions, complete with fancy cars, above, huge crowds and the first peacetime use of atomic energy. The party began with the lighting of an automotive sculpture, using a stick of beryllium, in Grand Circus Park downtown. ...

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