A rare — and remarkably clear — piece of footage that was recorded at a parade on Wichita’s Douglas Avenue on May 1, 1924, was recently discovered in an Arkansas City junk shop and shared with the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum under one condition:
Make sure everyone can see it.
The five-minute clip, now posted on the museum’s YouTube Channel, shows a snapshot of life in Wichita 95 years ago. In it, hundreds of people in dresses, suits and hats fashionable in the day are lined up along the 100 block and 200 blocks of East Douglas watching as men and boys in suit jacks, ties and page boy caps proceed down the street representing various groups, including schools like Hamilton, Allison and Horace Mann and groups like the Lions Club and Boy Scouts.
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