HAIR FRINGES ON MEDIA LIONS CLUB MEMBERS – Nine members of Media Lions Club are sporting beads for the Media Centennial Celebration in June, and rightly so, for this club is the sponsorship unit for the beard-raising contest that has set the razor industry back three months in the county seat. I. Frank Lees, treasurer of the beard committee, cannot raise a beard, so he holds the Lions emblem for his hairy friends. The shrubbery growers, from left to right, are: Maurice Bevan, Donald L. Snively, Erich Bubat, Frank Berry, A. Fred Manno, chairman of the beard committee; Dr. Emil A. Lintzmeyer, Francis Gray, club president; George Jeffries, and Percy Roberts. [Caption from Chester Times, May 13, 1950; spelling of some names corrected based on other newspaper searches.]
Newspaper caption reads: "The bushy "all-over" type beard of Dr. Alton F. Evans, Media dentist, is the result of only one month's effort." (Centennial Scrapbook 34)
Newspaper caption reads: "The bushy "all-over" type beard of Dr. Alton F. Evans, Media dentist, is the result of only one month's effort." (Centennial Scrapbook 34)
Frank Lees purchasing Beardless Permit No. 1, which allows him go beardless without paying a fine and risking a dunking. Media Real Estate Co. office is on left, at 111 South Avenue. The men are standing in front of 115 South Avenue. These buildings no longer exist. The back of the First National Bank is on the left. An addition to the bank now (2020) stands where these buildings were.
