The expansion of the area and the number of vendors was a total plus from the past years before the pandemic. Most of the vendors that I spoke with were from the regular arts rolling vendors that begin in Texas and move north to the Great Lakes to where once, Ann Arbor was the grand finale. Since I don't live in the Great Lakes now, I can't confirm that Ann Arbor Street Fair is the same as I once remembered it. What I can say is that Dallas' Deep Ellum was every bit an Ann Arbor fair. It was a fun time today beginning with three young people that made the day.
While walking both sides of Main Street looking at display, I say an amazing quality of merchandise, much of new technology in the arts. What I saw was outstanding. The new businesses were amazing and right on key to what I had predicted to a Fortune 50 company after spending six months walking the streets of Deep Ellum for a study that ended up with a presentation of a grant to the Deep Ellum Board for the Associations use. Hurdy and Michael, you would be impressed today after seeing how much this Festival has grown over the years and how the old painting of the School Bus and the old tunnels that now have a Dart train station sitting on top of them today is still a place of paint---old water tower.
These three great sports were so much fun. As I was walking this "wing" off the Main Street run, I spotted the guy on the left eating a sprinkled whatever. To the left of where the three are seen in this image, I stepping into a vendor's tent. Telling her what I was up to with these three. I wanted to be a true paparazzo for once and waited until he started to eat another bite and swing around the corner and snapped the Blog's Number One Spot--the front page. He was totally caught by surprise and the expressions were well worth the effort.
The guy in the back said that he would like to be in the image with his friends. It was totally possible because they were such good sports about the situation. Thanks to you all. I really appreciate being a paparazzo-in-action. If you read my website "about us" you will see that while we use the name (and how we got it) this type of picture is not the general rule.
This is the image of all three when expressions were more back to normal.
