Parade float for a telecommunications company at the 1963 National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC
Parade float at the 1963 National Cherry Blossom Festival, held each spring in Washington DC, USA, marks original gift of 3000 cherry trees from Tokyo Japan in 1912, side of float says: Stairway to Success, The C&P Tel Co features models in evening wear, fur stoles and mortarboards carrying academic scroll, staircase winds around a globe of the world with telecommunications pylon and satellite or sputnik, C&P were Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company founded in 1883, later part of Bell Atlantic Operating System and AT&T communications, kitsch Americana, an amusing vintage nineteen sixties photograph
Size: 4571px × 3056px
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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