Parade float with space rocket and TV stars,Thanksgiving Day Parade, Philadelphia, 1951

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Thanksgiving Day Parade, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 1951, float features Tom Corbett Space Cadets on Polaris (spelt 'Polarus') space rocket, characters from original science fiction book by author Robert Heimlein, was later a comic then a TV series that began in 1950 on CBS moved to ABC finishing on NBC in 1955, here left: Jan Merlin played Roger Manning, right: Frankie Thomas Jnr played Tom Corbett Americana, kitsch, an amusing vintage nineteen fifties photograph

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Size: 4594px × 3041px
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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