Black and white photographs of: 1.) A sign "Traverse City Welcomes T.C.T. Always" (T.C.T. is Tin Can Tourist) being painted, 1942. 2.) "Traverse Travelers" Swap the Ride Club. 3.)The Tin Can Tourist Inc. officers, 7/21/1941.
Cars and house trailers gathered at the county fair grounds (now the Civic Center) on East Front Street. The tourists would come to the area for "reunion" each year. Text on back of photo in second image