U-Matic
Neighborhood Shopping Days - May Ca Ren Cen
U-Matic S tape containing footage of Mayor Coleman A. Young giving a presentation at the Renaissance Center on July 11, 1985, as part of the Neighborhood Shopping Days campaign spanning July 18th to the 21st. The tape opens with the City of Detroit Department of Public Information Video Production logo. Afterward Mayor Coleman A. Young is shown surrounded by representatives of neighborhood shopping areas. He discusses the importance of neighborhood merchants, and urges people to shop in their neighborhoods. He lists some of the shopping districts participating in the campaign: Bagley Avenue (Mexicantown), Civic Center East (Kelly/Whittier/Hayes), Dexter-Davison, East Warren Avenue-Outer Drive, Grand Green, Gratiot Avenue-Seven Mile Road, Livernois Avenue-Seven Mile Road, Redford Is (Grand River Avenue and Lahser Road), Vernor Junction, Vernor-Springwells, and Virginia Park. After the footage, the Four Tops' "Be a Part of the Heart of Detroit (Do It In Detroit)'' plays against a black screen.
The video is on an unlabeled 3M MBU-18 U-Matic S. The tape is housed within a black plastic 3M UCA 20s U-Matic case with a handwritten note within providing the title.
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U-Matic
Mayor Coleman A. Young (PSA)
Do It In Detroit Neighborhood Shopping Days
July 18-21, 1985
Taped: 7-11-85
3:30 p.m.
