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No Pandemic Parades

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The U.S. Lighthouse Service at the 1924 Cuban ...


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The U.S. Lighthouse Service at the 1924 Cuban ...

Because so many parades across the country were cancelled this year, we thought we would pull a few parade float photographs from the Lighthouse Digest archives to share with you from a time when people in America could stand shoulder to shoulder to celebrate community events and show patriotic support together.

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The U.S. Lighthouse Service at the 1924 Cuban ...

If we had not saved these photos in our archives for easy access at one location, who would have?

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Maine’s Lubec Channel Lighthouse in a 1990 parade ...


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New York’s Oswego West Pier Lighthouse float in a ...


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This beautiful float featured Michigan’s Old ...


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Michigan’s North Manitou Shoal Lighthouse was ...


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The reviewing-stand float when Shirley Robinson ...


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Maine’s Nash Island Lighthouse was featured in ...


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Vintage photo of a United States Coast Guard ...


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This float in a 1946 parade in Groton, ...


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Model of Maine’s Little River Lighthouse on a ...


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Above left: This float at the 1924 Cuban American ...


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A parade in 1950 goes past the Biloxi Lighthouse ...


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This horse-drawn float featured Maine’s Portland ...

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