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National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau  

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  • From the 1900s through the 1970s, the National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau sponsored community-wide spring cleanups across the United States, traditionally with parades and other town-wide activities. It impacted the national consciousness through television shows such as a 1950 episode of Our Miss Brooks titled “National Clean-up.” Communities like Philadelphia, Boise, Helena, and Cincinnati competed for a “cleanest city” trophy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau]

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