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OFF THE WALL BALLOON QUEST/CAPTAIN PHOGG BALLOON RIDES Up, up and away…treat yourself to the ride of a lifetime, soaring over the picturesque Holly countryside in a hot-air balloon. Drift wherever the wind takes you on a relaxing one-hour ride. Packages available for groups of 2–12, including a champagne toast upon your return to terra firma, and a certificate you can show your friends to prove your exhilarating experience!
DISNEYLAND-MICHIGAN-U.S.A. Worth the back-alley skulking to view this folk art offering. A generation ago, Milos Silak, an Eastern European immigrant, began converting his backyard garage rooftops into something like a Rube Goldberg contraption by way of the Heidelberg Project. It is outsider art so “outside” that it’s in its own galaxy. Propellers, toys, gadgets, gewgaws and constructions grow out of lost and found artifacts of somebody’s civilization—maybe ours.
SILVIO’S ITALIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM AND BAKERY “Paisano, welcome,” says Silvio, the perpetually pleasant artist and owner of this party store/pizzeria that fronts a homemade museum. You might think it’s a bunch of junk, but to Silvio it has meaning, because it really is a museum and no laughing matter. Massive, mythical cement sculptures of people and architecture with religious and Italian overtones, studded with shiny, found objects that glow like jewels in the bakery light. Even better are the gigantic one-story monuments across the alley. Silvio’s Camelot features the fantasy marriage of John F. Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe, others celebrate events in Italian-American history from Romulus and Remus, the voyage of Columbus, right up to the Red Wings victories. Johnny Law put a padlock on Silvio’s old style brick oven, so don’t ask for a piece of pizza. Ask for the world, however, and your best paisano is more than willing to deliver, 10,000 words or more. © 2008 Guide to Detroit, LLC |