Booth for Girard-Miller Coal Co. featuring the automatic "blue coal" burner and a jar of pea coal with "blanks for guesses on the total number of pieces in the jar. A savings bond will go to the persons coming closest to the actual total.” (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)
Keystone Kops punishing beardless victims. See introduction to Zimmerman Photograph Collection for full explanation of the beard contest and the Keystone Kops
Keystone Kops punishing beardless victims. See introduction to Zimmerman Photograph Collection for full explanation of the beard contest and the Keystone Kops
Keystone Kops punishing beardless victims. See introduction to Zimmerman Photograph Collection for full explanation of the beard contest and the Keystone Kops
Keystone Kops punishing beardless victims. See introduction to Zimmerman Photograph Collection for full explanation of the beard contest and the Keystone Kops
Keystone Kops, members of the Media Lions Club, punished beardless men during the festivities. See introduction to Zimmerman Photograph Collection for full explanation of the Lions Club beard contest.
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, as other Keystone Kops photos in this collection show.
