The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Marine Honor Guard in ranks at parade rest during the ceremony. Ship's bandmaster and the band play near the hanger bay. Boarding guests include Governor Harrison of Virginia, Chief of Naval Operations followed by Admiral H.P. Smith and others. Vice Admiral Thach and others board the USS America. More Naval officers and ladies board the ship saluted by two navy men.
The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Governor Harrison of Virginian addresses the officers and guests at the hanger bay. Sailors stand in files alongside the hanger bay. Interior of the hanger bay, bunting hangs from overhead, many people seated during the ceremony. Flower spray on a table. A cake built in shape of the ship USS America.
The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Secretory of State, Dean Rusk and Chief of Naval Operations move on to a stage. Sideboys stand facing each other, saluting the arriving guests and naval officers. Cars drive at harbor at distance can be seen. Photographers take photos
Various types of vehicles use the road, in United States. A number of parked cars at a public parking lot. Vehicles move on a busy street outside a motel. Motor truck and a trailer moves on a road. Flatbed car carrier truck parked on side of road with several new Ford automobiles on it. Two women leave their house, sit in a car and drive away. Cars, trucks, buses and a horse cart on a road. An early Greyhound Bus bound for Washington approaches on a highway. A late 1920's or early 1930's automobile passes a horse driven cart at high speed.
A Ford Model A Tudor car circa 1928-1929 drives along a country road, past a mail box and turns, driving past a fenced farm. Cluster of farm buildings in background. Next, the car drives up to a farm building and the driver (a farmer) gets out carrying a bundle, that he takes into the house. A roadster convertible car, with its rumble seat removed and a large trunk installed in its place, stops in front of a house. A boy and a girl, on bicycles, ride past on the sidewalk, accompanied by a large black dog.The driver, a vacuum cleaner salesman, removes a demonstration vacuum from the car trunk and goes to the front door, where he shows the vacuum to a lady who answers the door. Change of scene to a 1929 Ford Town Sedan car arriving at the picnic area of a park. A little white dog jumps out as the door is opened, followed by a man and woman carrying things for a picnic. The woman, with others, prepares the picnic table, while a man tends a fireplace in the background. Young folks sit on rocks by a stream in the park. Scene shifts to a roadside sign reading,"Hunter's Old Spring Tourist Camp, Rooms-Cabins, Shower baths, Heated, Drive in, All Modern." View of the cabins in a grove of trees that have their trunks white-washed from the ground level to about 8 feet. Next, two women and two children leave a house and get into a Buick phaeton automobile, and drive away. Weekend sightseers in automobiles, fill the road leading to some attraction.
Number of cars drive on a road to a stadium, United States. Cars arrive at a horse racing track to witness a horse race. Man pays admission charges at entrance at sign that says $1.50 admission for grandstands and paddock. Spectators enjoy horse racing. Large number of cars in parking lot of horse racing track, with farm fields seen just outside the parking lot. Jockeys compete with each other as their horses race toward the finish line, and spectators watch and cheer from the stands.
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