Battle of Flowers – Home Movie Registry

The Porter Click Family, no. 1 – Battle of Flowers Parade (1941)

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This home movie captures scenes of the Battle of Flowers Parade in downtown San Antonio on April 25, 1941. Representatives of many community organizations and schools ride on elaborately decorated floats, and military corps and high school marching bands from all over Texas march in uniform. The Battle of Flowers parade began in 1891 and

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The Porter Click Family, no. 1 – Battle of Flowers Parade (1941)