Billboard announces program of free outdoor concerts by New York Philharmonic, including Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), and Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), conducted by Leonard Bernstein, in Prospect Park, New York. . Crowd gathered for the free outdoor concert. Families sit in the park. Several people carry chairs and carpets to sit. The orchestra plays on a stage. Microphones on the stage. The crowd cheers and applauds.
Crowded South Broadway street shopping district of Los Angeles California in 1950. Intersection of 7th Street and S. Broadway Los Angeles. American Red Cross flags hang from many buildings and a sign "Give more than before" as part of a blood drive. Desmonds department store sign visible in distance on South Broadway. Traffic light on the street. Pedestrians crossing the street. Vehicular traffic of cars, trucks and streetcar trolleys on the street. Passengers step down from a streetcar at a stop. It is number 59 with a sign that reads, in part, South San Pedro. View of shops on S Broadway including Bullocks Department Store on the corner of 7th Street and Broadway, Le Roys at 633 South Broadway, Harris & Frank's. A policeman stands at the intersection and directs traffic. Near ground level view of legs and feet of pedestrians with late 1940s and early 1950's mens and womens fashions. 1940s and 1950 truck, bus, and car automobile traffic clogs streets and highways of Los Angeles. Clothes hanging in front of residential garden apartments. Two babies standing in doorway of ground floor apartment, and a young boy sitting on the building steps.
After World War 1, in accordance with Article 88 of the Treaty of Versailles, residents of Upper Silesia are deciding by ballot, whether to be attached to Germany or Poland. Citizens in Kattowitz (Katowice) milling about in front of a building with a sign that reads ' Deutsche Sammelstelle. ' A horse and wagon passes them. Armed French occupation troops climb aboard an open truck. A small boy watching is chased away by a soldier.The truck drives away, past crowds of people on sidewalks. Three uniformed French soldiers pose in front of crowd of spectators. Three uniformed men with Red Cross arm bands stand under red cross flag flying from building. People massed at entrance to a building move into it under sign reading "eingang." A French officer (General Henri Le Rond) standing with a British officer (Colonel Henry Percival) and an Italian officer (General Antonio de Marinis), reads a newspaper and converses with the others in garden at Oppeln (Opole). Views from moving train of industrial complexes with numerous smoke stacks and factories, in the Oppeln region of Upper Silesia. A map showing area of plebiscite, and the coal reserves and coal mines of the region.
South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces being trained during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese Regional forces or Popular forces trainees run in assault formation in mock village during a simulated attack. They enter a hut in the mock village. Trainees run across the bushes camouflaged by leaves. A trainee in a trench fires a rifle. Men lined up on parade field at the graduation ceremony. Guidon bearers holding flags. Regional forces training center emblem at the base of the flag post. A soldier plays a bugle. Soldiers blow bugle with a banner over head that reads ' Le Man Khoa '
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Vietnam. Opening ceremony of a newly constructed telephone building. Mr Dung,Assistant Secretary of State speaks over microphone. Mr Dung makes a first call and dials number. General Le Yan Ty receives call at the extension phone.
Army troops are welcomed in Seattle, Washington as they return from the Korean War. GIs return to Seattle after rugged services on the Korean Front. GIs and troops aboard USS General LeRoy Eltinge at sea. The army transport USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) arrives at a harbor and gets a harbor welcome. An officer waves at civilians. Women standing with bouquets wave at the GIs. The GIs disembark from the ship and are greeted by their families and wives. A convoy of trucks loaded with GIs pass through the streets of the city. The citizens of Seattle standing on both the sides of the road welcome the GIs. People welcome them by giving them flowers.
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