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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated August 25, 1962 partially reads, "Palmdale graduated into cityhood Friday in a grammar school auditorium. At two minutes after 3 p.m., Mayor Lawrence Chibole rapped on a table three times and the county's 74th municipality was in business. True, it had no city hall, no money, no police, fire or sanitation departments, not even a dogcatcher. But it was richly endowed with the outspoken blessings and good wishes of the rest of the Antelope Valley, proud at last to have a municipality in its midst." Debra Ann Linaker, 7, can be seen doing a backbend, while her councilman father bends over civic duties.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm. Photographic prints
Municipal incorporation--California--Palmdale Cities and towns--California--Palmdale--Growth County councils--California--Palmdale Auditoriums--California--Palmdale Schools--California--Palmdale Meetings--California--Palmdale Girls--California--Palmdale Men--California--Palmdale Women--California--Palmdale Palmdale (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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