{"id":9664,"date":"2014-03-13T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:19:43","slug":"memorial-day-parade-1923-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/films\/memorial-day-parade-1923-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Parade, 1923-1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jNxrN1oWGxQ?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day Parade in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1923-1929<\/p>\n<p>This film is from the period between the World Wars. The World War I manufacturing boom further expanded Bridgeport\u2019s already well established status as a significant industrial center in the Northeast and strongly associated the city with the munitions industry, aviation, and war-related production.\u00a0 During this period, thousands of men and women, including African Americans from the rural south and immigrants from Europe came to Bridgeport to work in factories like Remington Arms.\u00a0 Many domestic service organizations and the Red Cross trained people to knit socks for the troops and administer first aid; war bonds were heavily advertised and sold.\u00a0 But Bridgeport did not just support the war effort on the home front.\u00a0 Like other American cities with a large blue-collar labor force, Bridgeport also sent many of its own into service during the war.\u00a0 Thus by the end of World War I, the city\u2019s economic and social identity had become inextricably linked with the new role of the United States as an industrial powerhouse and an emerging world power<\/p>\n<p>Like many American cities whose economies were once heavily based in manufacturing, Bridgeport has seen many changes in recent decades.\u00a0 It\u2019s once vibrant downtown was packed with businesses of all sorts from department stores and law offices to banks, restaurants, and specialty shops.\u00a0 For commerce, social activities, and major events such as the Memorial Day parade, the city drew visitors from the less densely populated surrounding towns by all modes of transportation, including train, trolley, ferry, and auto.\u00a0 This film of downtown Bridgeport in the 1920\u2019s serves as testimony to a different time in the life of a city that is now undertaking a \u201crevitalization\u201d of that same downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day Parade in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1923-1929 This film is from the period between the World Wars. The World War I manufacturing boom further expanded Bridgeport\u2019s already well established status as a significant industrial center in the Northeast and strongly associated the city with the munitions industry, aviation, and war-related production.\u00a0 During this period, thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12922,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/12922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}