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Message # 43339.1 Subject: Re:UW Wedding, 1954 Style Date: Mon 01/03/10 20:29:37 GMT Name: MK Email: wamtec@comcast.net |
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Interesting.....cos I have film footage of this event on old VHS tapes, that came from a Pathe News Reel . I knew it was made at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas, but did not know about these Life Magazine photos. I guess I should dust off the old film footage I have of this event and enhance it and make a fresh videoclip of this vintage event.
The backstory to this is that I also have a lot of old home videos from the early 1980's that were also shot at the Aquarena Springs theme park....when they used to do underwater shows at that same water tank. It was basically a mermaids show, but also had cute girls in red indian squaw dresses performing in the water tank....and therein was "the problem".....i.e. after the 1980's, a disease called "political correctness" infected the country and suddenly it was no longer acceptable to use the term "squaw" and have cute anglo girls performing in red indian dresses, cos the native-american Indians found that all depictions of "red indians" was offensive, so they campaigned to shut the show down. And then there were the animal rights activists who were upset at "the diving pigs" in the show, and the environmentalists lobbied for all shows to shut down at Aquarena Springs, and by 1994 they won the court battles, and all the water shows at Aquarena Springs were shut down, and the park was turned into a "botanical gardens"....which is all that it is today....a boring place with nice flowers and no aquatic shows.
Anyway...from the 1950s to the 1980s there used to be lots of wetlook and underwater shows at that park, and the 2 people in that wedding were both performers in their shows...which is why they got married in the water tank.
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In reply to Message (43339) UW Wedding, 1954 Style
By Nado - Mon 01/03/10 18:57:31 GMT From Life magazine:
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