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Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

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Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Jack Kelley, Jr. (in plaid) and Tom Worrall (one of the Keystone Kops)

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3459.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Bearded men pretending to play brass instruments, while Elwood Benson pretends to conduct.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3461.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Keystone Kops dunking beardless John Valenti, using a winch normally used to raise telephone poles.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3474.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, presenting award to Bill Turner, who won a drawing for the Wawa Dairy Farms go-cart. John Finley, Wawa Dairies manager, is holding his hat and waring a dairy-themed necktie, is at the right. The Chester Times…

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3475.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
A. Fred and Elizabeth Manno (dressed as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara from the movie, Gone With the Wind) dancing to music of the "Bearded Men Brass Band." The men only pretended to play; Media High School players behind this group were actually…

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3476.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
John Valenti, center, and other beardless men accosted by Keystone Kops,

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

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Date: 1950-06-07
"Centennial Chorus of 100, led by Miss Grace l. Porter, made a hit with its Battle Hymn of the Republic, Just A Hundred Years Ago, It's Spring and Country Style." (Chester Times, June 8, 1950)

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3481.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Fawns All Girls Junior Drum and Bugle Corps. This all-girls group was sponsored by the Media Youth Center and the local VFW Post 3460.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3482.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Dancing children in skeleton costumes. They were probably part of the Media High School Marching Band's rendition of "Dry Bones." (Chester Times, June 8, 1950)