U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
A baby crawling race over a 50-foot course at Palisades Park in New Jersey. Mothers arrive with their babies for the baby crawling race. The babies are weighed. They have candidature numbers. The participating babies on the ground. The babies crawl over the 50-foot course. The parents of the babies cheer for them. The winner's mother holds him.
Home front activities in New Jersey, United States. A bridge on the Hudson River. Vehicles driven on the bridge. A sign : 'Clearance, Tunnel to New Jersey'. Vehicles drive through the tunnel. A bus driven away. A sign in the background: 'Highway Directory'. Vehicles on Pulaski Skyway. A square and a hospital building. A police man directs traffic. A medical center seen. Pedestrians on a street.
Post-war home front activities in New Jersey, United States, shortly after the end of World War II. Locomotive train running on railroad tracks through the main street center of Passaic New Jersey. The Great Falls of the Passaic River is seen (now part of the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park) with a power generating facility in the foreground. Views of various industries in the Passaic area, some deriving power from the falls. Factory workers seen outside a large industrial factory as they enter it. Narrator notes that the factories are being converted to peace time production. Women seen working in a textile mill. View of bolts of cloth, sewing, and looms. Steel mill activities. A factory making wood veneer or cardboard or thick paper. A man operates an industrial machine. Women sew clothes. Workers work on machines. View of street signs, buildings, pedestrians, and traffic with 1940s era automobiles and buses at the intersection of Broad Street and Market Street, in the Four Corners District of Newark, New Jersey. Narrator describes it as the 3rd most busy intersection in the world. Boats in Lake Hopatcong. A boat launch area at the lake and some people on the lake shore. A woman wearing a swimming cap dives into the lake from a dock.
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.
Home-front activities in New Jersey, United States. A sign: 'Historical Museum'. A couple looks at the bed in which George Washington slept. A statue of a man on a horse. A soldier looks at a memorial stone. A sign on the memorial reads 'Washington and U.S. Army'. The soldier looks at a lake. A woman knits. Signs on shops and stores. Offices of lawyers seen. Old men gather in a village square. Men play a game.
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