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wenty-nine years ago, 1991, in Novi, MI is where it all started for Michigan SNOWMOBILE USA Show & Sale. At the hour of 5 o’clock on that Friday afternoon the show floor opened to 4,210 eager snowmobile enthusiasts! What was first used as a liquor warehouse was transformed into what is now the World’s Largest Indoor Snowmobile Show & Sale event in the country. If you attended that show 29
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It’s all in the family, a show and sale that’s become the largest in the nation.
years ago you will remember the feeling of something great happening. Very quickly the show saw massive growth and needed to find a larger venue. Fortunately, the owners of the Novi Expo Hall also saw growth in their business, and in 2005 finished building the first-class Suburban Collection Showplace that is now home to the World’s Largest Indoor Snowmobile Show. How did it begin you might ask?
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Well, Tom Anderson, owner and producer of the shows got his start in the snowmobile industry in a unique way. It started with the bedtime of his oldest child, Scott. Who ironically has worked for Tom along with his two siblings Lisa & Lori, for 30+ years. You see, as an infant Scott was just getting to sleep, when along came the neighbor on his 1965 and very noisy sled, racing through the
