September 30, 1940

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser

Detroit, Michigan, United States

An article about The Detroit News Home Show.

​Home Show Given a 4-Star Rating by First Nighters
(See Full Page of Pictures on the Back Page)
By Garnet Warfel

Like a great picture in technicolor, The Detroit News' fourth annual Home Show played to a full house all day Sunday at Convention Hall, from the exact moment the doors were opened at 2 p. m. until they were closed at 10 p. m. And listening in on comments at any point in any of the long, long lines of visitors, it has been given by its first severest critics a four-star rating.

There is no doubt that the show in its immensity and beauty leaves one a bit groggy if it is viewed from the first cottage, up the boulevard, around the whole room of appliances and furnishings, back down the boulevard to where you came in. But the unsteadiness is the kind that comes from multitudes of ideas running pell mell about one's head, and the kind that gives food for constructive thought for weeks to come.

The show will run all week and close next Sunday night. Hours are from 2 to 10 p. m. and there is a charge of 15 cents before 6 o'clock and 25 cents after that hour. Children accompanied by parents are admitted free.

Divided Opinion
In different camps there will be a diversity of opinion regarding just what is the talk of the town - today. Some will say the gentleman from Indiana by the name of Wilkie. Others will vouch for the triumphant Tigers. But a good many thousand will be talking Home Show and if they can't find anyone to listen, they will be thinking in terms of Regency, of modern furniture, of draperies and carptes and pianos and washers (some of them so perfect they do just about everything but iron the clothes and put them away). And there will be a great deal of wishful thinking.

For Detroiters love homes. They are buying more homes here than in any city you can name. And with that love of homes comes the natural urge for backgrounds to gracious living. And the dhow has them.

There are kitches so top-notch you hardly have to stir a lazy bone to produce a meal. Everything within reach and so gleaming and inviting it is easy to picture them the most lived-in room in the house.

The one outstanding note of the show is the Regency influence, which, by any other name (and...See Home Show - Page 4...clipping cut off

At the Annual Detroit News Home Show in Convention Hall
A beautifully landscaped boulevard in Convention Hall is lined with 22 furnished houses (over 90 rooms in all) at The Detroit News Home Show, which will remain open from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m. through Sunday. In addition, there is a large radio and appliance section. There is an admission of 15 cents before 6 p. m. and 25 cents after 6 p. m. Children under 12 are...clipping cut-off.
An unique room with dusty turquoise-ground flowered wall paper on one wall and three walls in light rose and beige. The rug is a honey color.
A room reminiscent of New England. It has maple furniture..clipping cut-off.


Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.