By Ken Graham
The Washington Post
YouTube Video Promotes Shopping Local in 1938
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These images are screenshots taken from the YouTube video showing Dayton merchants and school students in 1938.
DAYTON – The students laugh and squirm and look generally unnatural as they stand in large groups in front of a slowly panning movie camera. Business owners also look stiff as they pose for a short moving picture shot, some of them smoking cigarettes.
These are all citizens of Dayton in 1938, shown in a short 15-minute movie created to promote patronizing local merchants. Also shown in the video are many scenes showing business fronts on Dayton's Main Street and surrounding areas.
Several of the businesses portrayed are still around, including Elk Drug, Suffield's Furniture, Dayton Hardware St...
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