This is a home movie of the Watermelon Fest in Mineola Texas. This film was shot in 1953. Watermelon Festival beginning in 1948, the city of Mineola hosted the annual Watermelon Festival. The festival included a parade, a pageant culminating in the crowing of a Watermelon Queen, as well as free watermelon for the public. The festival was discontinued in the 1960s.
This is a program for the cornerstone laying at the T.L. James Memorial Dormitory at Centenary College of Louisiana. The T.L. James Memorial Dormitory a women’s residence hall built-in 1954. T.L. James was a lumberman, oilman, and investment banker, from Ruston, Louisiana his family made a donation to help build it. It is still used as a dormitory today and called T. L. James Residence Hall.
This is a letter sent home from Vietnam in May of 1970. The letter was
This is a home movie of the 1957 Red River Shootout at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas Texas. The game featured #1 Oklahoma vs. Texas and Darrell K Royal in his first Texas / OU game. Oklahoma won the game 21-7. The footage shows the University of Texas Band and the halftime show.
This is a home movie of Cub Scout Troop #1 in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1951. The boys start the film around a diorama set up on a table in the front yard. The boys start the meeting in the front yard saluting the flag and it looks like everyone had a great time.
This is a home movie of local soapbox derby qualifying from Shreveport Louisiana in 1951. It is a short clip but I really thought it was cool! This film was found at an estate sale in Shreveport last year.
This is a home movie of a little boy who wants to grow up and become a cowboy. He starts in the living room on his rocking horse with a couple of cap guns. The movie moves outside first on the rocking horse than playing with friends in the front yard. This film was purchased from a facebook group a couple of years ago, the other films in the group were in the Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan.
This home movie begins at the McDonald Observatory on Mt. Locke, we then travel through the Davis Mountains to the town of Presidio Texas. We cross the border into Ojinaga Mexico and see the town before traveling back for a quick stop at the Rio Grande.
This is a great home movie showing Big Bend National Park as it was in 1964. It shows all the major sights you would expect including Santa Elena Canyon and the Lost Mine Trail.
This is classic 1964 home movie footage of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and White Sands National Monument. The footage was shot in November of 1964.