Title:
May Festival participant Wayne Sherrill with the first Pacel Post push-cart delivery vehicle, Orange, California, 1954
Subject:
Postal service
Orange (Calif.)
Parades & processions
Carts & wagons
May Festival Parade--Orange (Calif.)
Sherrill, Wayne
Description:
May Festival participant Wayne Sherrill with the first Pacel Post push-cart delivery vehicle, Orange, California, 1954.
Image shows Wayne Sherrill dressed in striped coveralls with a three-wheeled push-cart bearing signage that reads "FIRST PARCEL
/ POST DELIVERY / VEHICLE / 1924." He is behind the United States Post Office, located on the corner of South Lemon Street
and West Chapman Avenue, Orange, California. Behind him, looking west, are three white and blue postal vehicles: an automobile,
a van and a scooter. The scooter has a sign that reads "FUTURE / CITY CARRIER / SERVICE / VEHICLE" The May Festival, which
began in 1933 and also included the May Day Parade, continued to be held until 1991.
Photographic print
b&w
21.5 x 30.7 cm.
Publisher:
Orange Public Library
Date:
1954-05
Type:
Image
Identifier:
OPL2930
10511263
Language:
eng
Relation:
Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Historic Orange Online
Rights:
For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.