Show 2000 Miles To 10 Squares Square Dance By MERRITT I E. E BRADLEY RADLEY We Vc have just returned home from the largest square dance convention ever cr held It was in Detroit Michigan 1 2000 miles from here and besides Jessie and myself there were dancers dancel's in attendance These people came from all parts of the United States 44 of the 50 states being There were 2000 from Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada and many from other foreign foreign foreign for for- eign countries Added to this were spectators who the same admission adm paid the same as the dancers We Ve dance dined and parked parked parked park park- ed in the new ultra-modern ultra Cobo Hall-Convention Hall Arena in the center of Detroit's business business bus bus- iness mess district and on the shore of the Detroit River Built in parking space for 2600 cars is provided on the rooftop rooftop rooftop roof roof- top via a spiral driveway and at two levels underneath the building Meals leals were served continuously from morning to tonight tonight tonight night in th which overlooks the Detroit River the busiest waterway in the world We Ve could watch the Great Lakes boats sailing by so close we the could almost reach out and shake hands with the captain We Ve Round Danced on the teakwood floor of Cobo Halls Hall's beautiful ballroom We Ve participated par par- in work-shops work in the fabulous Cobo Hall Arena a circular shaped building feet in diameter with the ceiling ceiling ceiling ceil ceil- ing just less than feet above the floor The construction construction construction tion of this circular wing of Cobo Hall is such that all pillars pillars pil pillars pil- pil lars beams and structural supporting members are on the outside leaving a large unobstructed area for seating spectators plus a large dancing and workshop area in inthe inthe inthe the center We Ve square danced in the largest room of them all a ahall ahall ahall hall which when the center partitions was raised would accommodate 1600 square A square is a set of four couples There are 48 speakers built- built in the ceiling of this hall and ad adde de to this were 42 more for this three-day three convention Although Although Al Although Al- Al though it was really hot weather outside It was almost too cool Inside Cobo Hall hail is truly Colossal Colossal Colos sal This shaped L-shaped building covers 17 acres of land and z I houses 51 acres of floor space On the thc floor space In the main halls of this building nine football games could be carried carried carried car car- ried on simultaneously or the Sanpete County Fair Fall horse and auto race track would quite easily fit into it This is Detroit Next year the national convention is tobe tobe to tobe be held in Miami Florida But closer to home next Saturday July 22 Sanpete County's Heart of Utah Square Dance Club is to be host to a jamboree jamboree jam jam- boree borce held on the tennis courts of Fountain Green Square dancers from all allover allover allover over the thc state are invited Spectators are also invited and for spectators there is no admission charge Why dont don't you plan to come and see and hear the thc Fun of Square Dancing You are arc always welcome Squarely Merritt 1 E. E Bradley Communities like people do not or 01 cannot remain the same Either we grow or we slip backward As with any vital living thing there is no status quo qua qu The Northwood Iowa Anchor Many lany people stand up when the national anthem is s played and fall down when they try to sing it The The Onawa Iowa Sentinel The most substantial people V r. are the most frugal and make the least show and live at the I least expense Francis Francis Moore 1 |