Dixon May Day Parade - Dixon Milling Co. float
Dixon May Day Parade - Dixon Iron Works float
May Day Parade - Horse and rider
May Day Parade - Grandstand
Pre-Fiesta Days: Back row Frank Tortosa, John Rico, James McCrory, Nestora Lyon, Otto Meyers, Alfred Johnson, Kathleen Heffernan. Front row John Lorenzo, (girl unknown), Maria Dolores Lyon, Eleanor Nelson, Robert Heffernan
Suisun waterfront. Early 1900s photo shows its decay since its early days as a water shipping port..
Dixon May Day Parade - Grace Summers, Queen, Year 1910 - Western Grain
Pocahontas Float - May Day Parade
This little amount of "Early Days" has not a great deal of literary merit nor is it of particular interest to anyone coming to Vallejo during the past few years, but it is an accurate picture of the town itself in the 40s, 50s and also from information he derived from family, friends and members of the old Hook and Ladder Co. So since there are still in Vallejo some descendants of the original settlers they will, no doubt, derive some pleasure in reading of the social activities of their ancestors..
Dixon May Day Parade - Choice Market - Lamb float