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April 28, 2018, 7:54 am
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(Image: Wikimedia)
By Betsy J. Green
On April 6, 1918 — the first anniversary of the U.S. declaration of war on Germany — Santa Barbara held a 90-minute parade. The “Flying A” film crews contributed the most spectacular float in the parade — a 50-foot replica of a British tank.
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Sorry for the confusion, folks. The illustration depicts a British tank that I found on the website Wikimedia, as I mentioned in the credit line. I wanted to illustrate what a British tank looked like, since the parade float was supposed to resemble a British tank.
Unfortunately, there are almost no actual photos of local people or events in the Santa Barbara newspapers in 1918, and I spend almost as much time looking for images on the Internet to illustrate my articles as I do looking for the local news items themselves on microfilm.
The sceptic who wrote the “fake news” comment can go to the microfilm collection at the SB Central Library, and read the complete article about this parade in the April 6, 1918 edition of “The Daily News & Independent.”
Dear Betsy,
Please know we enjoy your Way Back When contributions immensely.
As TAGDES recently pointed out, there seems to be an ongoing reading
comprehension deficiency among numerous Edhat commentators.
When did this site draw such a plethora of nit-pickers and fault finders who don’t even read the whole posting? Or is it a matter of comprehension like the ones who down-vote whatever they don’t understand or don’t agree with? They are a definite pain in the posterior.
Rats from the Indy/NHawk sewer cleaning, when they banned comments.
Good gravy, Betsy, as hard as you work doing research you get these “I know better” arm chair historians. Thanks for this interesting information on the “parade float”. Obviously the photo is simply to show what a real tank looked like, and “not on State Street”.