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Atlantic City New Jersey USA 1952 stock footage and images

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Participants of a beauty contest walk on ramp and Jacquelyn Mayer receives title of 'Miss America -1963' in Atlantic City.

1963 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Participants of the 'Miss America -1963' beauty contest pose and walk on the ramp. An audience watch the beauty contest. A panel of judges give remarks. Miss Ohio Lass, Jacquelyn Mayer receives the title of 'Miss America -1963'. Jacquelyn Mayer is crowned. Photographers take photos. On the next day, Jacquelyn Mayer smiles and waves.

Date: 1962, September 10
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071408
Fire fighters tackle with forest fire near the Atlantic City in New Jersey, USA.

Wind swept forest fire destroys thousands of acres of woods near the Atlantic City in New Jersey, United States. Fire fighters work day and night to fight the blazing forest inferno.

Date: 1951, May 10
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050154
Hotels, shops and tourists (many in Rolling Chairs) enjoying the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Hotels and boardwalk of Atlantic City. Men, women and children walk (or "promenade") on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey in front of the Ritz Hotel. The Hotel Traymore is also seen in the background. Many tourists are seated in 3-wheeled small vehicles or Rolling Chairs to take a tour of the boardwalk and city, each vehicle pushed by a man on foot. The tourists are well dressed in early 1900's fashions. Large billboard high in the background reads "Fatima". Groups of women walk arm-in-arm. Boys take interest in the camera and play near by. Store front sign for Adams Baths among the shops in the background, located on the Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue.

Date: 1917
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023084
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157
Contestants of Miss America beauty contest wave at people and walk on a ramp in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Miss America beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants of Miss America on floats as they pass along the streets of Atlantic City. The contestants wave at people. Veterans in wheelchairs watch the parade. The contestants standing and posing. They walk on a ramp. The winner of the 1945 Miss America pageant, Bess Myerson, wears the crown and cape. Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America, comes from the Bronx, New York. Bess Myerson smiling.

Date: 1946
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072228
Twenty year old Evelyn Margaret Ay of Pennsylvania wins the Miss America pageant.

Contestants pose at 1954 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants in swimsuits walk on the ramp. Twenty-year-old Evelyn Margaret Ay of Pennsylvania wins the contest and is crowned Miss America.

Date: 1953, September 9
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040161