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- When Fred Green ran for governor the second time in 1939. The float is a platform truck, compliments of Grand Rapids Varnish Corp. The bed of the truck has been made to look like a garden, with white picket fence and greenery. Several young women in white are riding on the float. The banner below says “Keep Michigan Green."
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man in white coverall and young boy standing beside a truck made to look like a locomotive with a sign tied on, "The Iron Horse."
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Picture taken in front of Berkey and Gay's. A pickup truck with an oversized stake rack bed bears the sign “Hoover and Curtis, Green for Governor, VandenBerg for Senator, Vote the straight Republican ticket.” Six men in suits and hats holding saxophones stand by the cab of the truck, facing the camera.
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of a procession of pickup trucks carrying ovens, men on horses, and a stagecoach, during a parade down Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- In the parade during Gov. Green’s first campaign for governor. A man in a cloth hat driving the stake rack truck of the Builders Supply Co., Ionia, Mich. In the cargo area is a donkey. A banner on the side reads “This fellow won’t vote for Green because he is what he is.”
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Flatbed truck for Winegar Appliance Shop carrying a cowboy, a horse statue, and gas ranges, during a parade on Monroe Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Motorcycle cop leading parade of trucks of scrap, down Monroe Avenue.
- Date Created:
- 1941-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of a procession of pickup trucks carrying ovens during a parade down Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of a procession of pickup trucks carrying ovens during a parade down Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Truck pulling a trolley car advertising Centlivre Beer, served since 1862. "Order a case from your distibutor: Kent Distributing Company"
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)