Fourth of July parade in 1876
Archway for the Spring Festival
Spring Festival in 1902
Spring Festival parade
Parade honoring Teddy Roosevelt in 1902
Parade on Broad Street in 1913
World War I parade
New Years Parade in 1951
Chattanooga parades from yesteryear are featured in the new book Chattanooga in Old Photos, sponsored by Chattanoogan.com.
The earliest shows a Fourth of July parade in the centennial year of 1876.
The Spring Festival was held in the late 1880s and early 1900s, and it always featured a parade with elaborately decorated floats.
Teddy Roosevelt was honored with a parade when he came to visit Chattanooga in 1902.
A parade down Broad Street helped celebrate the end of World War I.
Another photo shows a New Year's parade here in 1951.
Chattanooga in Old Photos is available at Zarzours Restaurant on the Southside.
It is the fourth book in the collection called the Chattanooga Photo Books. The others are The Remarkable Stokes Collection, Railroads in and Around Chattanooga and Paul Hiener's Historic Chattanooga.
The new book includes almost 300 pages. It features hundreds of scenes from downtown, local landmarks, rivers and streams, parades, medical, banks, churches, entertainment, hotels, motels and apartments, restaurants, parks and cemeteries and auto and livery.
Zarzour's is on Rossville Avenue behind the Fire Hall #1 on Main Street. Other books in the Chattanooga Photo Series can be purchased there from Shannon Fuller.
Cost for each of the books is $35, which includes the sales tax. Those who want the books mailed to them can send $40 to John Wilson, PO Box 2331, Chattanooga, Tn., 37409.
Please make checks out to John Wilson - not to Chattanoogan.com.