Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PERIODICALS.) Idlewilder's Magazine. Numerous illustrations. [12] pages including wrappers. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), staple-bound, original red and black illustrated wrappers; light soiling to rear wrapper, minor wear. Idlewild, MI: K.D. Davis, 1 August [1962]
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Idlewild was an all-Black resort community in the woods of northern Michigan which was launched in 1912 and became the vacation home of countless notables from Madam C.J. Walker to Joe Louis to Zora Neal Hurston to W.E.B. Du Bois.

This appealing newsletter is an artifact of Idlewild's prime, just before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed access to other newly integrated resorts. Photos include several local businesses, two new homes, 16 women gathered for a luncheon, a young Detroit mortgage broker off to Mexico in his Thunderbird with a "special built in telephone which will keep him in touch with all happenings," and the cover girl, a 19-year-old Marion College student who summered at Idlewild. An advertisement features R&B star Brook Benton's upcoming residency at Idlewild's Paradise Club, hot off a string of top-ten hits. Other ads promote a variety of Idlewild-area and Detroit businesses. A singer named Teri Francis contributed a full-page review of the community's entertainment scene, and another page is devoted to events at the local youth center. Not in Danky-Hady or Lomazow; OCLC shows only one other issue of this magazine preserved in a library: a 1958 issue held at Yale.