San Francisco Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season (1950s)
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San Francisco: Dead Whale Opens Seafood Season
Dead whale appeared on Market Street
Dead whale (42 feet long) is driven down Market Street as promotional stunt for opening of seafood season. "Miss Seafood" on trailer. Cops (policemen) hold noses at the smell (odor). Big barnacles on whale.
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Dead whale appeared on Market Street
Dead whale (42 feet long) is driven down Market Street as promotional stunt for opening of seafood season. "Miss Seafood" on trailer. Cops (policemen) hold noses at the smell (odor). Big barnacles on whale.
We digitized and uploaded this film on behalf of the Prelinger Archives. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
Transcription
it's a whale of a catch for Miss seafood and quite a plug for San Francisco and the opening of the seafood season City fathers sense that something was going on when a dead whale appeared on Market Street 42 ft and 42 tons of blub and Barnacles too any cop knows that a dead whale won't make a city smell like Chanel number five but they let it pass Moby Dick may not be pretty but look at Miss food The Season's best catch and that's the end of my [Music] Tale
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