1950 - 100th Year Celebration
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July 2 - 8, 1950 |
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| W.W.I Memorial on S. 2nd Street. This memorial was about 25 feet north of Evans Funeral Home on the street in front of the then, American Legion. The Memorial was later moved to the Football Stadium to make room for two-way traffic on that street. | Parade heading South on Second St. |
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| School children marching South on 2nd St. | Sister of Swish* in front of the town's Borough Hall and clock. |
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| "Shotgun Wedding" Part of the parade. Notice the father with the shotgun pointed at the groom | Saint Clair High School Band |
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| Norman Kull with pie on face and in the stockades | Forget to wear your Centennial Hat! Then you must walk down the main street (2nd St.) in your night clothes!!!!! |
The Sisters of Swish wearing their "gay nineties" costumes*. Some members of the Sisters of Swish were Marcella Shovlin, Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. Edith Morris, Miss Elizabeth Kull, Mrs. Marie Smith, Mrs. William Brady, Mrs. Michael Stranko, Mrs. Kathryn Montalto, and Mrs. Simmons. * |
During the Centennial celebration who would you see promenading around Second Street on Saturday evenings? The Sisters of the Swish. If you were a man who didn't grow a beard, where would you end up? In the stockade. The "Brothers of the Brush" would see to that!
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* My mother, Edith Morris, was one of the "Sisters of Swish". I still have the dresses she wore. They are nearly 100 years old. The Sisters would walk up and down the the main streets of Saint Clair in the evenings during the Centennial event.
For the April 6, 2000 celebration, my sister and I wore our Mother's Swish outfits for the 150th Anniversary Charter Reading Celebration. Over 40 people paraded to the Borough Hall in "period" outfits for this reading. Click here to see the Bicentennial Celebration