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Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Media Centennial headquarters, in a building shared with Media Real Estate Company, on South Avenue (now Veteran's Square) behind the First National Bank.

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Parade of Fraternal Orders

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Date: 1950-06-09
LuLu Temple String Band of Philadelphia

Media Centennial Celebration. Sunday. Veterans Memorial Service at Delaware County Court House

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Date: 1950-06-04
Members of the United Spanish War Veterans (USWV) fife and drum corps in the American Legion hall, after the service.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-02.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Unidentified marching band color guard. Storefront paintings done by high school students are visible in shops on the left.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-03.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Unidentified marching band and baton twirlers. Storefront paintings done by high school students are visible in shops behind the marchers.

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
String band of the Garretford-Drexel Hill Fire Company.

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
The bagpipers of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band, Philadelphia, led the contingent from the Highland Park Fire Co., Upper Darby, Pa.

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
Firefighters String Band, of Philadelphia. According to the Chester Times, this captain's uniform included about 300 ostrich plumes.

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
Unidentified patrons of the Media Fire Company refreshment stand.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-16.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Media Fire Company truck with Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
Media Fire Company truck with Nan Dutton, longtime Media correspondent for the Chester Times.

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

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Date: 1950-06-10
Media Fire Company truck parked on Jackson Street and Jasper Street. Corner of original Media Free Library building is on far right. The houses behind the trees on the left were removed in the late 1960s, to make room for the current (2020) fire…

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Francis (Duke) Cunningham and unidentified man, contestants in the Media Centennial Beard Contest, in the refreshment stand of the Media Fire Company.