Submitted by the WOOD COUNTY DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY
With the Bowling Green Holiday parade just a month off, take time to look back at parades from an earlier time.
In August of 1938 and 1939, Bowling Green hosted a first and second Tomato Festival.
The Wood County District Public Library has just posted 64 photos from the Jim and Joan Gordon Collection of the two festivals at: https://www.facebook.com/WCDPL/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10154189749274671.
Photos feature marching units, floats from local businesses and the contestants for the crown of Tomato Queen.
1938 Tomato Queen contestants pose with bushels of tomato at Heinz loading dock. (Photo from Jim & Joan Gordon Collection)
