It is often true that one person’s disappointment is another’s success.
In this case it was a photographer who failed to focus the camera on the intended folks in the foreground; but succeeded in capturing the buildings in the background as unintended documentation for historians.
The occasion was a parade in 1941. Not just any parade, it was an event to remember with 17 bands and 15 floats marching down Park Avenue, around the Square and back out Fourth Street.
They were capping off the 12th Annual State Moose Convention held in Mansfield.
The camera lens was intending to record a drum corps paused in the street. Instead it focused on the east end of the Ohio Theater (today the Renaissance) and the Buick dealership.
Today the street is considerably wider than it was in 1941, and the site pictured is occupied by Holiday Inn.
