Summary

It Happened in Mayfair

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Title: It Happened in Mayfair
File Number: PA-0409 Beta SP; PA-4167 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational Industrial
Year: 1937
Description: It Happened in Mayfair: advertising film featuring northeast Philadelphia businesses, people and places during the Depression. Excellent footage of everyday life in the 1930s. Great period flavor. Well-dressed people throughout. Potts Ice Cream company - manufacturing ice cream, great shot of bunch of kids eating ice cream cones. People leaving Sunday church services. EXT Mayfair theater, with Art Deco marquee. Staff of Mayfair poses outside the theater. Happy people leaving the theater. Mayfair baseball team posing. Softball game in action. EXT Mayfair Sweet Shop (candy shop). Lawn party. Happy couple proposes they kiss INT and EXT bank INT jewelry store woman trying on ring. Northeast Home Furnishers (NE Philadelphia furniture store). Salesman demonstrating Westinghouse refrigerator to couple. EXT R.M. Waddington Realtor INT realtor business. New NE Philadelphia housing development on Wye Street (?) nice EXT of attached home. EXT INT beauty shop beauty parlor women having permanent waves and manicures. EXT wedding outside church. People stepping off streetcar trolley. Philadelphia street scenes with 1930s cars. EXT Unity-Frankford Stores (grocery store) INT grocery store, nice shots of people choosing produce. Woman buying Bosco Coffee. MS butcher department in grocery store. Kids running across the street after school recess boys wearing knickers. 1920s era fire engines leaving fire house firemen pose outdoors. EXT INT bakery (Hohnberger's Bakery) INT Mayfair Diner - great shot of mostly men eating at diner counter. LS WS hundreds of children posing outside school all the kids wave (great shot) EXT river falls women posing by falls. Pennypack Park. People fishing. EXT Borrelli's Tailor shop snappy Borrelli's panel truck drives off. Women and children waiting on line outside movie theater. EXT newlyweds, people throw rice at them as they run off people waving goodbye to the new bride and groom.
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