Jesse Sloan owned the Media Odorless Excavator Company.

Frank Lees caption: Lines Motors and Walsh Ford later occupied this location. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Unidentified group of contestants and spectators. This is probably the night of the final judging, on the High School athletic field.

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.]

Identified from newspaper caption.

See Chester Times, June 5, 1950, page 10 for details of this event and full list of contestants.

Negative damaged

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)

Newspaper caption reads: "Ernie DiDonato, barber, is experimenting with a "French Type" beard." (Centennial Scrapbook 34)

Newspaper caption reads: "Ernie DiDonato, barber, is experimenting with a "French Type" beard." (Centennial Scrapbook 34)