Caption:
The South Wing of the Southern Furniture Exposition Building opened for Market on July 10, 1950. The ribbon-cutting was performed by Jacque Mercer, the reigning Miss America. Also present were Governor William Kerr Scott, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Thomas Blaisdell, Southern Railway President E. A. Morris, and Eddie Rickenbacker, America's leading World War I fighter ace and head of Eastern Airlines.
Object ID:
50-488