This candid street photograph captures a quintessential small-town American parade of the mid-twentieth century. A marching band and attendants process down the main thoroughfare past a Cities Service filling station and brick commercial buildings, while townspeople gather along the curb to watch. Period automobiles and period architecture help date the image to the early-to-mid 1950s. Photographs like this, taken from a personal collection, document the civic and community life that framed the postwar American home front. Project: 218589