I kinda had an idea that this one would be popular. I just didn't have an idea as to HOW popular it would get.
As you know, we're in the middle of rolling out a new series of “Pieces of the Past”, the videos I do for the Marquette Regional History Center. There are all sorts of topics being covered this time around, and they run the gamut from the founding years of Marquette to a little more modern history. Knowing that one of the videos would be coming out on New Year's Eve, I borrowed from one of my recent walking tours for the tale of how some people may have celebrated the holiday in the recent past.
17,000+ views (and counting) later, I'm glad I did it.
When we put out these videos, we consider it a success when we get a couple of thousand views on various Facebook and You Tube pages. But knowing how people love bar stories, and how people really loved the old Alibi in Marquette, the number of views we got really doesn't surprise me. I mean, it really makes me glad (and some of the comments on the video made me laugh), but I had a notion that it might be one of the most popular of this current series.
It's nice to know I can still get a few things right on occasion.
The funny thing is that there's not much to look at in the video. The only pictures that seem to exist of the Alibi are two separate and very poor shots of the building that appeared in newspapers. So I had to figure out a way to keep reusing those two shots, along with a bunch of newspaper ads, to make the video visually interesting. Thankfully, the story of the bar is so compelling, and the humor I was able to get out of it rather funny, that (for once) the visuals in the “Piece” really didn't matter.
Whatever pictures I might have used really don't matter. It's the tale of the bar and the people--many of them under aged—who used to frequent it that make it such a cool video.
So cool, in fact, that it's up to 17,000 views (and counting) on Facebook.
Wanna see it yourself?
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