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Sleeping Bear Dune Rides: Remembering the Dunesmobiles
Taking a truck loaded with people tearing around the Sleeping Bear Dunes would land you in jail. But long before the days of endangered pitcher thistle plants and piping plovers, back when most people thought that a fragile ecosystem was something you better pack with extra styrofoam, there were the Dune Rides.   read more »

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March 19, 2007

Set the Wayback Machine for Leelanau, 1949

Filed under: cherries,family,film,Leelanau,michigan,movies,sleepingbeardunes,video — Andrew McFarlane @ 9:24 am

Here's a nationally produced travelogue from 1949 featuring all kinds of Glen Lake, the Sleeping Bear Dunes (complete with Dunesmobile rides), cherries and Traverse City.

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  1. Oh! This is so excellent!
    Is there a copy of this gem in the libraries on VHS/DVD?
    Can I buy a copy?

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    Comment by Dave Cushing — April 15, 2007 @ 1:18 pm

  2. I don't know where you'd find a copy, Dave.

    Here's the page of the person who uploaded it.

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    Comment by Andrew McFarlane — April 15, 2007 @ 1:45 pm

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