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Santa Claus Arrives by Air For Forest Park Parade
Clear skies Saturday noon over Forest Park as Santa Claus landed his airplane and led a parade along Madison street from Harlem to Desplaines. Merchants awarded prizes to children, with drawings conducted by the petate committee and theater party drawings for bicycles.
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Santa Claus
Forest Park
Madison Street
Harlem Avenue
Desplaines Avenue
Bettzanna Konietzka
Burkhardt Court
Ernest Halred
Ashland Avenue
River Forest
Marvin Schlicting
Wilcox Street
Dean Nuld
James Pusateri
P. Bowden
Eleanor Lapanese
Marengo Avenue
Mary Hoyne
Joseph Rizzo
Sue Meyer
Circle Avenue
Dorothy Stange
Thomas Avenue
Eleanor McDinald
Elgin Avenue
Donald Peaslee
Marilyn Ward
Ferdinand Avenue
Alan Jacobs
Hannah Avenue
Iver Prescott
Park Avenue
Glen Schulz
Marenga Avenue
Ronald Hornischer
Louise Frank
Loretta Heuck
Norbert Buchholz
Jackson Boulevard
Harold Cohen
Audrey Wiehe
Martin Rand
Gaden Bredenbeck
Monroe Street
Anna Hinda_ Lippman
Mozart Street
Chicago
Harriett Kuhn
Bensenville
Pari Lot Ite Forest Theater
Evenepede
Blue Flame
Petate
Missara Peyton
Licht
Sutton and Thorson
Lloyd Lehman
Hildegard Knaack
Deslaines
Hildegard
Peyton
Atic
Smith