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Post #615178 by TikiTomD on Thu, Nov 24, 2011 2:42 PM

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For another TC thread that delves into Monte Proser, see http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41646&forum=1.

I ran across this web site that has images of memorabilia from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair:

http://cartoonsof1939.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-york-worlds-fair-1939.html

Among them was this souvenir of "Monte Proser's Zombie, The Meeting Place on the Midway"...

Another finding was this 1940s postcard image advertising the Copacabana:

This 1940s video collage has some wonderful vignettes of the Copacabana at the beginning and end, including images of Monte Proser and Jane Ball:

http://3a.17.1243.static.theplanet.com/video/copa-characters-1206578060

-Tom