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Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

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Date: 1950-06-09
Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, with an unidentified Shriner. Donald G. Shook, owner of the Media News, is seated in the bottom center of the photo.

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-40.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right: Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, George Jeffries (with Shriner hat), ad Frank Lees.

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-41.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right, seated behind bunting: Mrs. Crosby L. Smith, Nan Dutton, Walter N. Hagerman (with LuLu Potentate hat), Frederick Brumble, and Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media. Frank Lees is seated in the lower right corner. Patty married Fred…

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-21.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Keystone Kops, left to right: Tom Worrall, unidentified beardless victim, Jack Kelley, Jr., and Francis Gray

Media Centennial Celebration

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-26.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Refreshment booth on High School field

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19198-07.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Banner reads: Ridley Township High School Band and Fire companies. Vauclain - Folsom - Milmont - Holmes - Woodlyn - Leedom

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
Accompanying the Glenolden Fire Company was "one of the most elaborately attired outfits in the parade, the Fire Fighters string band, composed of Philadelphia firemen, led by Battalion Chief George E. Duffy. The men had uniforms of light blue,…

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19198-09.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Accompanying the Glenolden Fire Company was "one of the most elaborately attired outfits in the parade, the Fire Fighters string band, composed of Philadelphia firemen, led by Battalion Chief George E. Duffy. The men had uniforms of light blue,…

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3256.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Coronation of Miss Greater Media, Patty Highfield, by J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor).

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3257.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Coronation of Miss Greater Media, Patty Highfield, by J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor).

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3258.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Coronation of Miss Greater Media, Patty Highfield, by J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor).

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3259.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Miss Greater Media, Patty Highfield, takes a lap around the field in an automobile, with J. Fred Schultz (right) and Walter Wood, who chaired the Miss Greater Media Contest.

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3260.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Coronation of Miss Greater Media, Patty Highfield, by J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor).

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3261.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Media Fawns All-Girls Junior Drum and Bugle Corps. (This is the identification on the negative envelope, but according to newspaper accounts, the Fawns did not compete in this event; this may be another unidentified group, or perhaps the Fawns…

Media Centennial Celebration. Military and Veterans Day. Evening program on High School athletic field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3262.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
"The Seahorses," the drum and bugle corps of the Willis Gale Post 215, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Atlantic City, N.J.

Media Centennial Celebration. Keystone Kops with beardless man in handcuffs.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3263.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03
Francis Gray, right. These "Kops" were members of the Media Lions Club, and in charge of "enforcing" the beard rules in town during the celebration. Beardless men needed to buy a beardless permit or risk being fined and ducked in a bathtub of water,…

Media Centennial Celebration. County Day. Pennsylvania State Police exhibition on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3330.jpg
Date: 1950-06-05
State trooper with police dog jumping through hoop. Image made from scan of 8x10 print.

Media Centennial Celebration. Youth Day. Program on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3349.jpg
Date: 1950-06-06
Children square dancing. Media Friends School and Media Elementary School presented similar dance performances.

Media Centennial Celebration. Youth Day. Program on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3350.jpg
Date: 1950-06-06
Children square dancing. Media Friends School and Media Elementary School presented similar dance performances.