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Title: Huge Parade
Post by: Towntalk on March 21, 2011, 11:45:55 AM

No offense to anyone, but today's local parades are pathetic when we consider what they were like in earlier years.

When Youngstown Had Huge Parades Downtown

April 24, 1938

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eUJKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VIYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2213%2C6938720

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eUJKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VIYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1420%2C6980596

Title: Re: Huge Parade
Post by: sfc_oliver on March 21, 2011, 12:40:36 PM

For all occasions they were bigger and better.

Title: Re: Huge Parade
Post by: Towntalk on March 21, 2011, 01:01:40 PM

Can you ever invision a Youngstown parade now ever getting 80,000 people downtown to see it? And that parade was at the height of the Great Depression.

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Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley => Youngstown in General => Topic started by: Towntalk on March 21, 2011, 11:45:55 AM