March 17, 2009
St. Patrick's Day Parade [8mm 1949 Rolla, Missouri w/ 'I'm Looking Over a 4-Leaf Clover Soundtrack]
Captured from an 8mm movie of the Missouri School Of Mines, MSM, St. Patrick's Day parade in Rolla, Mo. I added the music that was on the hit parade in 1949.
40,000 March in St. Patrick's Day Parade [1936]
"New York City: Forty thousand sons and daughters of Erin march up Fifth Avenue in a stirring revival of the annual St. patrick's Day parade. Half a million Gothamites watch the tremendous spectacle from packed curbstones and vantage points in high buildings."
2) Jafsie Back Home For Quiz "New York City: Dr. Condon, famous Lindbergh case witness, returns from a sudden Central American vacation to face further questioning, by Governor Hoffman, in the Executive's struggle to sift Hauptmann's actual part in the horrible crime."
3) "Boy Finds Piece of Meteor that Startled New York, at Malaga, NJ"
4) "Hibbing, Minnesota: "Pupils Go to School in Glass House
5) "Il Duce Puts Italian Children through Vivid Gas-Attack Drill, at Turin, Italy
6) "Ice James Threaten Country Towns and Bangor, Maine"
7) "'Iron-Headed man' makes Little Impression on New Safety Glass tested in New York City
8) "Air-Line Hostesses Pass Rigid Tests at San Francisco, California
9) "Champion Trotting Horses Limber Up for New Season at Seminole park, Florida
10) "Fantastic Wrestling Bout Rouses Fans at Seattle, Washington
11) "Terrific Floods Sweep Cities In Western Penna. (Special Release: To be Shipped Separately) Pittsburgh PA: Rapidly-rising water covers fifty blocks in the heart of the city, causing damages mounting to $10,000,000 as the menace of inundation hits a wide area. Communication lines broken, isolating Lewiston and Johnstown where a repetition of the horrible disaster of 1889 becomes a terrifying possibility to 66,000 residents. Scenes of horror multiply as swirling water crushes all barriers, leaving untold thousands homeless or unable to resume their jobs." (complete newsreel)
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