The prize winning float in the Daffodil Parade, entered by the Puyallup and Tacoma Active Clubs. The float is a flower bedecked replica of a US destroyer, complete with swinging lifeboats and a rosy cheeked crew of little girls in nautical attire. The float is accompanied by a man dressed in a sailor's uniform. The float ship bore the number 110, the number of the Tacoma Sea Scout ship. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Floats (Parades)--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Street level view of the 1936 Daffodil Parade on Pacific Avenue. The Tacoma Distributors Association's float leads the parade. Hundreds of spectators line both sides of the street, and downtown buildings frame the view. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Floats (Parades)--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Float sponsored by the City of Tacoma in the 1936 Daffodil Parade, symbolizing the city's dominance in public utilities. In the forefront are three rearing horses pulling a large wheel. A large dynamo is in the back, an emblem of the power of the hydroelectric plants. (TDL 4/19/1936, pg. 1)

Daffodil Parade float entry by KMO radio, a floral representation of a microphone with the call letters KMO. The float was probably an entry in the 1936 parade. Several patches of daffodils in the outer ring of the microphone are missing showing the chicken wire base.

1936 Daffodil Queen Helen Edgerton of Puyallup. In the early years, the queen alternated year to year between Puyallup and Sumner residents. The first queen from Tacoma was in 1956 and from Orting in 1962.

The Young Mens' Business Club entry in the 1936 Daffodil Parade was this flower covered replica of the bastions at the restored Fort Nisqually at Point Defiance. The restored Fort had opened in 1934. A sign on the float advertises the "Beaver Centennial" 1836-1936, a celebration to be held July 4, 1936.

The Rotary Club, a perennial entrant in the Daffodil Parade, entered this flower bedecked emblem of Rotary International in the 1936 parade. The word "Service" is emblazoned on the side of the float.

The Tacoma Utilities Light and Power float in the 1936 Daffodil Parade. Stock Negative. Three raging horses pull a water wheel and the orb in the back of the float represents hydroelectric power.

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The Lincoln Citizens' Club's entry in the 1936 Daffodil Parade features a solemn Abraham Lincoln in his stove pipe hat and his log cabin. Stock negative. The Daffodil Festival had its origin in 1934.

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The 1936 Daffodil Parade winds down Broadway with the Chamber of Commerce float in the lead. People have lined up several people deep to view the third annual parade.

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Daffodil Festival. The four tier, 35 foot tower of daffodils used as the reviewing stand. The pylon was covered with 200,000 bright yellow blossoms. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Reviewing stands;

A cedar and daffodil covered float passes in front of the reviewing stand during the 1936 Daffodil Parade. The float design incorporates a small house, yard and windmill. Stock negative. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

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The Tacoma Retail Trade Bureau's float moving down Pacific Avenue during the 1936 Daffodil Parade. Daffodils cover fountain and tree shapes on the float and a sign announces: "To our neighbors". Stock negative. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

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The Daffodil Parade reviewing stand on So. 10th Street & Pacific, a 35-feet-high, four-tiered structure covered with 200,000 daffodils. The pylon was the photo opportunity of the third annual Daffodil Festival. The old bank building at 10th and Pacific, overhead streetcar wires, and the ruins of The Tacoma Hotel punctuate the background. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Reviewing stands;

A closer view of the Daffodil Parade reviewing stand on So. 10th Street & Pacific, a 35-feet-high, four-tiered structure covered with 200,000 daffodils. Queen Helen Edgerton of Puyallup and her court will later view the parade from this vantage point. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Reviewing stands;

On April 18, 1936, Daffodil Queen Helen Edgerton poses in the doorway of the 35 foot daffodil "tower" that served as a reviewing stand for the Daffodil Parade. The pylon was covered with 200,000 daffodils and was located at the corner of 10th and Pacific. Members of her court stand in front. They are, left to right, Alice Margaret Woods of Tacoma, Helen Rockway of Sumner and Joy Lundrigan of Puyallup. (T. Times 4/20/1936 , pg. 3)

Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1936 : Tacoma); Festivals--Tacoma; Reviewing stands; Edgerton, Helen; Woods, Alice Margaret; Rockway, Helen; Lundrigan, Joy;

Weda Claire Dykeman smiles from inside a daffodil during the 1936 Daffodil Parade. Weda Claire is the daughter of Doug Dykeman. (T. Times 4/20/1936, pg. 3)

On April 22, 1936, students across the nation expressed their displeasure with governmental policy by taking part in a massive anti-war demonstration at 11 a.m. This large group of students, standing among the trees in the school's courtyard, is from Stadium High School. They joined high school and college students throughout the U.S., France, Belgium, Spain and Puerto Rico in the massive walkout pledging their refusal to support any present or future wars and protesting the nation's armament program. In Tacoma, over 500 students walked out of classes at Lincoln High School at 11 a.m. Some of them gathered with the students at Stadium at 12 noon, who chose to demonstrate during lunch periods rather than walking out of class. Large demonstrations with speakers were held at the College of Puget Sound and the University of Washington in Seattle. Sponsors estimated that 400,000 students took part nationwide, a great deal more than were involved in similar demonstrations in 1934 and 1935. (T.Times 4/22/1936, pg. 1) TPL-3214

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Three newspaper staff members of the Lincoln News and their advisor receive word that for the fourth consecutive year, the newspaper has received "All American Pacemaker" honors in the National Scholastic Press Association's annual contest. Pictured left to right are Bettie Whisner, feature writer, Homer A. Post, faculty advisor, Roberta Bullard, feature editor and Dick Meyers, Associate Editor. Only 10 of the 845 high school papers entered received this award. Lincoln received 900 of 1,000 possible points. (T. Times 4/24/1936, pg. 1; the 1936 "Lincolnian")

Whisner, Bettie; Post, Homer; Meyers, Dick; Bullard, Roberta; Lincoln High School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Lincoln News (Tacoma); Students--Tacoma--1930-1940;

Dedication ceremony for cornerstone being laid at new location for St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church. Photograph ordered by Lee Merrill Advertising. The dedication is being held in front of what was known, until the reconstruction of St. Luke's began a few months prior, as St. Mark's Episcopal Church. The historic St. Luke's had stood at the corner of 6th & Broadway for over half a century. It was being dismantled stone by stone and reconstructed at this site at No. 36th and Gove St. Officiating at the cornerstone ceremony were Bishop S. Arthur Huston, of the diocese of Olympia, and Rev. Arthur Bell, formerly rector of St. Mark's and now rector of the new St. Luke's. Mayor George Smitley, second from left front row, gave a short address. The Rev. R.A. Walmsley brought a stone from Jerusalem to be placed in the wall of the new church and also addressed the crowd of approximately 300. The old St Mark's would be moved in 1937 to 3615 No. Gove and later renamed St. Mark's House and used as church offices. Its stained glass windows, originally from the Fannie Paddock Hospital Chapel, as well as stones from the burned and demolished Tacoma Hotel would be used in the reconstruction of St. Luke's. The reconstruction was funded completely by donations and completed in 1947 without incurring debt. (TDL 4/27/1936, pg.1)

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Relocation of St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church. Two stone masons laying numbered stones in place for rebuilding of dismantled church on new site. For Lee Merrill Advertising. For over half a century, St. Luke's had stood at the corner of 6th and Broadway. The historic church was being dismantled brick by brick and being rebuilt at No. 36th & Gove Streets, formerly the location of St. Mark's. St. Mark's became the new St. Luke's as construction proceeded and was moved to 3615 No. Gove in 1937 to make room for the rebuilt structure. (WSHS)

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Tacoma Mayor George Smitley, Bishop S. Arthur Huston of the Olympia diocese, Rev. Arthur Bell, rector of St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church, and Rev. R.A. Walmsley, pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church (from left) participated in the cornerstone laying at the new location of St. Luke's, 3601 North Gove, on April 26, 1936. The church building at that location, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, would be moved nearby to 3615 No. Gove to make way for the reconstruction of the original St. Luke's. St. Luke's had been downtown at Sixth & Broadway for over fifty years before its razing in 1934. The stones were saved and were to be used at the new Gove St. site. Rev. Walmsley, a Presbyterian minister, had brought a stone from Jerusalem to be included in the church's new stone walls.

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Cornerstone laying at the new location for St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church. Posed, left to right, were Tacoma Mayor George Smitley, Bishop S. Arthur Huston of the diocese of Olympia, Rev. R.A. Walmsley, pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Arthur Bell, rector of St. Luke's. The April 26, 1936, dedication was being held in front of what was known, until the reconstruction of St. Luke's began a few months prior, as St. Mark's Episcopal Church. The historic St. Luke's had stood at the corner of 6th & Broadway for over half a century. It was being dismantled stone by stone and reconstructed at this site at No. 36th and Gove St. Rev. Walmsley had brought a stone from Jerusalem to be included in the new stone walls. (TDL 4/27/1936, pg.1; T. Times 4/27/1936, pg. 3)

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Tacoma Mayor George Smitley addresses the crowd during the dedication ceremony for the cornerstone laying for St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church. The dedication is being held in front of what was known, until the reconstruction of St. Luke's began a few months prior, as St. Mark's Episcopal Church. The historic St. Luke's had stood at the corner of 6th & Broadway for over half a century. It was being dismantled stone by stone and reconstructed at this site at No. 36th and Gove St. (TDL 4/27/1936, pg.1)

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Buddy Poppy Days were being observed in Bremerton beginning May 22, 1936 and Ernie Roy, city traffic Patrolman, was happy to do his part by purchasing two of the tiny red flowers. Ruth Howard, left, poppy chairman for the auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Admiral Robert E. Coontz Post No. 239, and Flo Hatfield, chairman for the auxiliary to American Legion Post No. 149, were ready to do their part raising money for the welfare of disabled war veterans. The sale of poppies as a fund raiser goes back to the early twenties. A poem entitled "In Flanders Field" evoked a battlefield of white crosses dotted with red poppies, "In Flanders Field the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row..." The poem touched the nation and poppies became known as the wartime memorial flower, a tribute to those who lost their lives defending our freedoms. In 1922, the VFW conducted its first poppy sale and the poppy was adopted as the official memorial flower of the VFW. The proceeds from the sale are used to support veterans' programs, the VFW makes no profit from the sale. (Bremerton Sun 5/22/1936, pg. 1)

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Monday, May 4, 1936 kicked off the city wide Bremerton Cleanup Week. June Martin, left, and Clarice Atkeson were doing their part for spring cleaning by raking up debris in a yard. Bremerton's clean sweep was part of a national cleanup program. To assist in the effort, Bremerton garbage collectors would be picking up all extra garbage all week and hauling it away at no charge. (Bremerton Sun 05/04/1936, pg. 1)

Raking (Sweeping)--Bremerton; Cleaning; Martin, June; Atkeson, Clarice;

In April of 1936, Bremerton had one lone remaining blacksmith- Vasco W. Livingstone. In this portrait, Mr. Livingstone has been working and his clothes and face are covered with soot. He holds a horseshoe, blacksmith tongs and a hammer. The blacksmith shop was opened in 1901 by Jack MacGillivray, Bremerton's mayor in 1936. Mr. Livingstone entered as an apprentice under Mr. MacGillivray in 1903 and has managed the shop since 1929. The original equine customers included teams from the Navy Yard, livery stable teams and the fire truck horses. By the time of this photograph, the only horses to be shod came from the ammunition depot. (Bremerton Sun 6/29/1936, pg. 1).

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On May 1, 1936, a twelve foot telescope capable of exploring the night skies was presented to Bremerton High School. Co-ed Bertie Gibbs, pictured, was one of the first to look through the telescope while Thelma Dane, secretary to Principal H.D. Sorensen, waited her turn below. The telescope was built by the late George Renstrom, one of Bremerton's leading amateur astronomers, and was given to the school after his death. It arrived at the school in pieces and was assembled by the machine shop classes. The telescope will be mounted on a platform on the roof of the school's auditorium. Students were already signing up for astronomy classes to be taught by vice-principal George Martin. (Bremerton Sun 5/1/1936, pg. 1). (filed with Argentum)

Telescopes--1930-1940; Gibbs, Bertie; Dane, Thelma; Bremerton High School (Bremerton);

In April of 1936, publicity chairmen held a meeting to discuss the upcoming State Congress of Parents and Teachers. Tacoma played host to the state P.T.A. convention held May 4-6. Pictured were, left to right, Mrs. John Pearce, Mrs. Mary Nordfors, Mrs. Ann Hunt, Mrs. Hannah Meagher of Seattle and Gertrude (Mrs. W.D.) Stewart. (T. Times 4/28/1936, pg. 9) (filed with Argentum)

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A.O. Holladay, Bremerton's "oldest newsboy," sold the Townsend Weekly in April of 1936 to R.W. Henry, left, veteran Bremerton resident and ardent member of the local Townsend pension club. Mr. Holladay, 75 years old, each week distributed 150 copies of the Townsend journal throughout the city of Bremerton. He had performed this feat every week since the Townsend Club No. 1 was formed in Bremerton two years prior, never receiving a penny for his work. He was sold on the Townsend Plan, formulated by Dr. Francis Townsend, which called for a $200 a month pension for each retired person over the age of 60. Mr. Holladay came to Bremerton in 1916 and worked at the Navy Yard and as a Teamster. He lived at 1012 4th St. The Townsend Plan never became law, but Social Security was partially based on its tenets. (Bremerton Sun 05/07/1936, pg. 1).

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