title: [The Bicentennial Parade in Mineral Wells]
language: English
description: This photograph shows a celebrity car in the "Time Was"
 Bicentennial (celebrating the United States Bicentennial) parade, held April
 4, 1976. The passengers riding in the back seat of the 1976 Cadillac El Dorado
 convertible are The Mayor of Mineral Wells, Ellis White, and his wife,
 Janie. 
     The picture was taken at the intersection of Oak Street (Highway
 281) and Hubbard Avenue (Highway 180) in downtown Mineral Wells.  The car is
 moving south on Oak Street, with the Baker Hotel one block east in
 background.  The camera that took the picture is facing east-northeast.
subject: Social Life and Customs - Customs - Parades
subject: floats
subject: Places - United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
coverage: 1976
rights: Public
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_0893N.016
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16143/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth16143