{"id":6250,"date":"2018-01-28T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:05:30","slug":"from-the-archives-balloon-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/28\/from-the-archives-balloon-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: Balloon Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ParadeIt\u2019s always a good time to celebrate Purdue!\u00a0 In this image, we see a large group of people parading along a West Lafayette street.\u00a0 Can you identify the location and the time period?\u00a0 Where might they have been going?<\/p>\n

Share your guesses in the comments and check back on Friday when we reveal the full story behind the photo!<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The October 20, 1923, football game was a special event not just for Purdue but also for the whole Lafayette community thanks to a \u201cLafayette Day\u201d theme.\u00a0 At 12:30 p.m., a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered at Sixth and Columbia Streets in downtown Lafayette to form one of the largest parades in the city\u2019s history.\u00a0 Led by the Purdue Military Band, they marched over the bridge, up the hill, and across campus to Stuart Field and a specially reserved seating area for parade participants.\u00a0 This photograph captured the parade moving up the hill on State Street in West Lafayette near the intersection of River Road.<\/p>\n

\"Purdue
The Purdue Military Band leads the parade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bleachers
The Lafayette section of the bleachers on Stuart Field, next to the Armory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to a ticket for the game, everyone in the parade received a gold-colored balloon emblazoned with the words \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Purdue!\u201d\u00a0 The words are just visible some of the balloons in this close look at the original photo.<\/p>\n

\"Close<\/p>\n

On the field, Purdue and Wabash were evenly matched and ended the game with a 7-7 tie.<\/p>\n

Organizers hoped that Lafayette Day would become an annual tradition that would encourage Boilermaker spirit on both sides of the river.<\/p>\n

University photographer J.C. Allen captured the images of the parade and they are now part of the J.C. Allen negatives and photographs collection.\u00a0 Information about Lafayette Day comes from the contemporary news coverage in The Purdue Exponent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We’ll be back on February 12 with our next From the Archives challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s always a good time to celebrate Purdue!\u00a0 In this image, we see a large group of people parading along a West Lafayette street.\u00a0 Can you identify the location and the time period?\u00a0 Where might they have been going? Share your guesses in the comments and check back on Friday when we reveal the full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,64],"tags":[3863,6977],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spec","tag-archives-and-special-collections","tag-from-the-archives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-1CO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}