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Rockaway Beach 4th of July Celebrations Through the Years


This 8mm home movie is of a Rockaway Beach community 4th of July parade in the 1950s.

Nancy Nuth portrays the Statue of Liberty at a Rockaway Beach 4th of July Celebration in the 1970s.
Rockaway Beach Improvement Association 4th of July Nail-Driving contest, 1970s.
Jackie Nickel on her decorated bike prepares for the 1952 Rockaway Beach 4th of July Parade.
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Nickel Family Home Movies


Nickel Family Home Movies, 1940s-1960s

These home movies screened as part of Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Baltimore Home Movie Day 2015” during their “Imagining Home” Opening, October 25th, 2015.

Clips include “Rockaway Beach Volunteer Fire Department Training, 1947,” “Rockaway Beach 4th of July Parade, 1952,” and “Ancient and The Honorable and Ancient Nobles of the Hardshell Crab Feast, 1948.”