Main Street Calumet Window Display Contest Winners

Main Street Calumet’s Design Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Summer window Display contest:


1st place: Curves for Women 205 Fifth Street
Business feature ad in the Daily Mining Gazette ($650 value)

2nd Place: Red Jacket General Store 412 Fifth Street
Calumet Theatre 2009 Season Ticket ($215 value)

3rd Place: Calumet Mecantile 107 Fifth Street
Night’s stay at AmericInn, Calumet ($135 value)

This summer’s display window theme is Keweenaw Music Traditions and aims to celebrate the roll music plays in our community life. Downtown businesses were invited to create a storefront window display that highlights an aspect of the Keweenaw’s musical heritage while incorporating goods or services offered for sale.

In Calumet’s Historic downtown district, we are fortunate to be surrounded by music: live music and open mic. nights featured at bars and cafés; prominent performers on the stage at the Calumet Theatre; piano lessons in the front parlor of the Norwegian Lutheran Church parsonage and this summer, a concert series at the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne’s.

Fourteen merchants participated in the window display contest.
Windows were judged on the following characteristics:

Connection to Theme (Keweenaw Music Traditions)
Originality and Creativity
Use of Space
Cleanliness of Displays and Windows

The windows were judged by a panel of Michigan Main Street Managers and volunteers from all over the state attending the Michigan Main Street Quarterly Conference held in downtown Calumet on June 16-17, 2009.