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Tahquamenon Falls

We first posted this picture on Sept. 3, 2015. It was taken July 4, 1935, when perhaps the second-largest parade ever to be held in the Sault occurred. (The largest parade was surely the one in 1955, during the big Centennial Celebration of the first lock built here).
The "Sno-Go" was from the Michigan Department of Highways. They must have had a bucket or two of small bits of cotton batting which they occasionally threw in to the blower unit of the Sno-Go to simulate snow. If you look carefully at the road behind the Sno-Go, you should see many clumps of white, and you can also see quite a bit of it floating in the air, and piled on the roof of the machine.
Note the name of the Sault's most famous hockey player, Taffy Abel, on the billboard for Foxhead Beer. He owned the Log Cabin Café, roughly across Ashmun from the Temple Theater. Note also the small "peanut wagon" behind the crowd, on the left side of the photo. I think I can remember when that little business was still operating, in the 1950s----but I'm not sure of that. Can anybody tell us anything about who ran it, and how long it continued to operate?
This is one of many pictures we have of parades over the years, taken from a bay-window in Walter Materna's second-floor studio above Rudell's Drugstore, corner of Maple and Ashmun. He started his business in 1929, so this picture was taken only six years after he started. Walter Materna Collection, neg. #705.6