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Get Beach Ready at the Mt. Elliot Park Fun Shop in Detroit
August 4, 2014·By BLAC Editorial
The new riverfront store has everything you need for some fun in the sun
August 4, 2014
verything about the Mt. Elliot Park Fun Shop says "fun in the sun"-in Motor City. The Detroit RiverFront store offers beach bum kitsch-including water guns, hula hoops, kites and bubbles-and Detroit-emblazoned bags, towels and T-Shirts so, at your next visit to the shore, you can stake your claim in the sand as a Detroiter.
Before your next trip, make a stop at the Mt. Elliott Park Fun Shop (located at 200 Mt. Elliot, Suite 116) in Detroit and pickup one of these items:
- Better Made Chips, $1
- Hula hoop, $5
- Fleece picnic blanket (not pictured), $19
- Aloe sunscreen, $5
- Creatology bubbles, $1
- Adora Bella porcelain cup, $18
- DetroitGT buttons, $3
- 'Bitch, please. I'm from Detroit' T-shirt by DetroitGT, $20
- Flip flops $15
- Beach bag, $40
- San Pellegrino, $2
- Sunglasses, $12
- Wristwatch, $35
- Rebel Nell necklace, $135
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