New Alice Of One-Time Vincennes... A Mass I've Never Heard Of, Equally A Parade Float.

But accept you lot e'er seen a 1929 truck flowered out similar this?

It turns out that Alice of Old Vincennes became a pop-culture phenomenon: it was turned into a Broadway exhibit that played at the Garden Theater inwards New York City inwards 1901 together with 1902, starring Miss Virginia Harned, together with it was too the footing for a pop song, “Alice of Old Vincennes (I Love You).” See the promotion inwards a merchandise paper here; click hither for a 1914 recording; together with come across the canvass music for pianoforte here. Apparently, somebody fifty-fifty sentiment it was a practiced sentiment to set Alice on a tin of tomatoes, equally you lot tin come across here

But what's fifty-fifty stranger? The high schoolhouse Lincoln Vincennes, names their sports team, the Alices.

Sheesh.

https://historiann.com/2012/03/24/falling-down-the-alice-of-old-vincennes-digital-rabbit-hole/

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