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Show GREAT SESQUI STADIUM OPENED AT PHILADELPHIA Photo bv AERO Se.rvirm Cn-rnnrntln. ' The giant arena in the centre of the Sesqui-Centen-nial International Exposition site in Philadelphia was built in approximately 300 working days. It was completed com-pleted and in use a month before the opening of the big exposition, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of-Independence. This photograph, photo-graph, made from the air, shows nearly 3.000 boys on the playing field, massed there for the dedicatory exer cises on May 1 which formally opened the structure. In (he stands are seated 10.000 persons watching the program. pro-gram. A group of 10,000 persons is a large crowd but they are only a "drop in the bucket" in the big Philadelphia Philadel-phia stadium. The boys paraded onto the field to the accompaniment of fourteen bands and there went througn their drills and athletic exercises for the benefit of city officials and parents. |