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Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-34.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, on float. Her sister, Donna Highfield, is the small girl in front.

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-33.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Miss Greater Media float sponsored by the Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Patty Highfield, in back, surrounded by her court.

Media Centennial Celebration

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-23.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Media High School Marching Band.

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-15.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Paterson-Hause Post American Legion, Jr. Drum-Bugle Corps, Leedom Estates, Ridley Twp. Pa.

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-14.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
World War II veterans from Media

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-13.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Unidentified color guard and marching band

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-12.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Unidentified color guard and marching band, from Philadelphia

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-10.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
"Detachment of U.S. Marines from the Philadelphia Naval Base." (Media News, June 8, 1950, photo caption)

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-08.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Army equipment - trucks and guns.

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-43.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Media Fire Company. The group wore new uniforms for the parade.

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-42.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Nan Dutton in a Media Fire Company truck in front of judge's reviewing stand at Borough Hall.

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-32.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Sign on car: "Jefferson Harris [sic: Harrison], Delaware County's oldest Odd Fellow, 101 Yrs Young. Studebaker courtesy of Jessup & Pell, Inc." Harrison, of 214 Vernon Street, had lived most of his life in Virginia, where he had once been a slave.…

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-30.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Media VFW Ladies Auxiliary float, with a Colonial soldier watching over Betsy Ross as she sews the American flag. This float also appeared in the parade the previous day.

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-29.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Float carrying The Candlelighters, 12-voice choir from the First Presbyterian Church of Media. (Chester Times, June 9, 1950)

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-28.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
The float of the Campbell A.M.E. Church in Media had a replica of the original church building.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Twilight Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-24.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Unidentified veterans group.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Twilight Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-23.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Media VFW Ladies Auxiliary float, with a Colonial soldier watching over Betsy Ross as she sews the American flag.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Twilight Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-22.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Unidentified high school marching band, possibly Ridley Township High School.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Twilight Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-21.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
The tail end of the Habbersett Bros. Pork Products contingent. "The small boy hauling a live baby pig with his tractor was four-year-old Gary Habbersett, of the fifth generation" of the family. (Chester Times, June 9, 1950, page 10)

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-08.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Unidentified color guard and marching band

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-07.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Military personnel riding in Jeeps and trucks

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Military Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-05.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Delaware County Military Order of the Cootie, Honor Degree, VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars]