2000.2.216

A young woman dressed in an Alice in Wonderland outfit, and a man wearing a jumpsuit, are posed in alongside of a board/sign roughly 3 feet wide by 4.5 feet long on which is a line drawing of an elongagted Alice in Wonderland. There is no head in the drawing, and Alice is holding up a large question mark card where a head would be. And that is the presumed purpose of the board and drawing: place for a person to put his or her head and pose for a photograph. The man to Alice's left appears to be a navy aircraft pilot or flight crew member, based on his short sleeve jump suit, epaulettes with three bars on them, wings on his chest, and boots. Alice is standing; the aviator is half kneeling. The man in the jumpsuit is local kiddie show host and television personality Bob March in his costume as Captain Satellite. The show ran on local station KTVY (channel 2) in the sixties and seventies. March also hosted "Dialing for Dollars." --Drew Johnson

Used: City of Oakland

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