"Tame Deer To Chew Ribbon, Open Bypass"

[kurumi]

This Nov. 3, 1960 article in the Hartford Courant turned out to be concerning a road just outside the Nutmeg State... the Nov. 4 opening of the US 10 bypass in Midland, Michigan. If the deer didn't chew on schedule, "four pretty girls dressed in hunting outfits" (the article's words, not mine) would cut the ribbon, presumably with scissors, though that wasn't made explicit.

The bypass would serve a lot of deer hunter traffic in-season... hence the hunting theme of the opening.

What unique ribbon cuttings have they had in your neck of the woods?

[hbelkins]

Nothing that fancy, but we did stretch a ribbon across a parking lot a few years ago instead of the actual road, because it was deemed too cold to have the entire ceremony outside. We had the ceremony in a community center gym and then tied a ribbon to two gold-painted traffic cones for the officials to cut.

[Terry Shea]

This Nov. 3, 1960 article in the Hartford Courant turned out to be concerning a road just outside the Nutmeg State... the Nov. 4 opening of the US 10 bypass in Midland, Michigan. If the deer didn't chew on schedule, "four pretty girls dressed in hunting outfits" (the article's words, not mine) would cut the ribbon, presumably with scissors, though that wasn't made explicit.

The bypass would serve a lot of deer hunter traffic in-season... hence the hunting theme of the opening.

What unique ribbon cuttings have they had in your neck of the woods?

At first I thought this was a recent project that I had somehow missed...and then I saw the date. 

[Sykotyk]

Funny, at first glance I thought "Tame Deer" and "Chew Ribbon" were towns somewhere.

Haha

Sykotyk