Christmas 1929
City Hall Spring St. entrance decorated for the community Christmas pageant.
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The 1929 Downtown Christmas Parade held Thanksgiving Day had a nursery rhyme theme.
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Heading up Olive St.:
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1949
The Christmas tree in Pershing Square in 1949 was 105-ft. tall (surpassing 1948’s tree, a shrimpy 95-ft) white fir from the Sequoia National Forest.
Heading over the Ridge Route at Mint Canyon:
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The lighting ceremony was on November 28, 1949. The star on top was 10-ft high.
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Virginia Mayo, as chair of the Marine’s “toys for tots” drive was expected to make an appearance.
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