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Industrial Parade, Chambersburg, Pa., 1914

Industrial Parade, Chambersburg, Pa., 1914
A watching photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

"#21. Industrial Parade, Old Home Week, July 26 to Aug. 1, 1914. Chambersburg, Pa. C. A. Laughlin."

Spectators fill Memorial Square in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, as they watch a large piece of equipment pass by as part of the Industrial Parade that was held during Old Home Week in 1914. Photographer and postcard publisher Clyde A. Laughlin captured several different views of the parade and published a number of other real photo postcards besides this one.

For another Laughlin photo from an earlier parade, see Hoch's Ice Cream Parlor Cow, Patriotic and Industrial Parade, Newburg, Pa., July 3, 1909.

Hoch's Ice Cream Parlor Cow, Patriotic and Industrial Parade, Newburg, Pa., July 3, 1909

Smiley Derleth, Deborah Lundbech have particularly liked this photo

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 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Funny how my instinctive first reaction is "ugh, they're too close and too many of them". Covid thoughts even if nonsensical. Same reaction I had to your Swedish boat photo.
It will be very nice to not feel this - hopefully fairly soon.
On another note, as always, seeing photos dated this close to the beginning of WW1, I feel sad for the terrible years that are about to occur and that the people pictured will live through - or not.
Other than those gloomy thoughts - great photo with the excitement of "progress" so clearly pictured.
Do you know this town, Alan?
5.5 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Deborah Lundbech club
Unfortunately, I haven't had much of a chance to visit Chambersburg, which is about 65 miles from where I'm located. Like Gettysburg (25 miles down the the Lincoln Highway from Chambersburg), it saw significant action during the Civil War and ended up being raided and burned three times.

The building that's partially visible on the right-hand side of the photo is the Franklin County Courthouse. The original courthouse building was destroyed during the Civil War. More recently, the buildings to the left of the courthouse were torn down to make way for a new judicial complex, which is now under construction (if I've copied the link correctly, this Google Maps view from 2019 shows the courthouse and its surroundings from a similar vantage point as the 1914 photo).
5.5 years ago.

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