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RKO Parade Float
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RKO parade float, with people on the float and ushers standing beside, advertising "cool and comfortable as a summer vacation" for the Orpheum and Capitol theaters. Partially visible is a Coca-Cola sign painted on the side of a building on N. Murray St. just south of University Ave.
June 5, 1931
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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