Part of a series of photos taken of the Daffodil Parade in April of 2000, the restaurant Pomodoro in the Proctor District is seen in the background.

Part of a series of photos taken during the Daffodil Parade in April 2000.
Backside of photo contains text: Rick & Skye in parade at Proctor st. April 8, 2000

When taken: 1969
Where taken: Tacoma

Photograph backside contains text: La candler, Charlotte camp, Bonnie Diel, Beverly Curtis, Barbara Webe, Marian Bodinger, Joyce Mailler, Mothersingers 1969

Photograph description written by Laura L. Jensen

When taken: 1954-1961
Where taken: Washington Grade School, Tacoma WA
Who is in these photographs: Students of Washington Grade School
What memories are contained in these photos: Grade school with classmates and teachers at school.

Backside of photo contains text:
Top Row
Mrs.Hubner
Christ Dullett
Laura Jensen
Linda Horton
Cheryl Wilson

Second Row from Top
Barbar Skidmore
Tommy Daren
David Rivieto
Mary Anne Jackson
Greg Chantler

Third Row
Anne Marie Robertson
Vernon Farvour
Susan Swedberg
Randy Malanea

Fourth row from top:
Richard Harrison
Ricky Cratenberg
Joe Price
Paul Stanley
Wayne a. Millainson

Bottom Row
Larry La Paint
Christy Brewsaugh

Not in Picture: Carolyn Morrison
Susand Danlund
Paula Markswell

Backside of photo contains text:
Bottom row:- Ronnie Myer - Kathy Stockdale - Skippy Dustafston - Dail Fidley
2nd Row:- Kathy Buckmiller - Vicky Blasoa - Bobby Lackey - Jackqueline Keinshaw - Nan Parten
3rd Row:- Harold Doty - Susie Miraldi - Nancy Petermeyer - Peter Ashmore - Bill McCourt - Ricky Cratsenberg
4th Row:- Fred Hall - Marlene Johnson - Charles Karrigan - Fred Dross - Paul Stanley - Tommy Dlochne
5th Row:- Sue Swedberg - Nancy Nelson - Betsy Jones - Jim Bronow - Steven Asher - Frank Peruucunas
6th Row:- Mack Lachey - Brooki Johnson - ME - Joe Price - Dany Vergas - Jolyan Raymond.

Part of a series of photos taken during the Daffodil Parade in April 2000.
Backside of photo contains text:
Rick and Skye
Jr. Daffodil Parade
April 8, 2000

Photograph backside contains text: 4016 N 24th Tacoma 1969

When taken: 1953
Where taken: Tacoma, Washington.

Who is in these photographs: Linnea Gord Jensen, piano accompanist.
Margreat McGugos was a proctor neighborhood piano teacher.

Photograph backside contains text: Margaret McGregor, Dorothy Lindgiriet, Virginia Ricker, Helen McRael, Eloise Christeneen, Beverly Anderson, Martha Barnes, Lorene Hall, Leniea Jeneen. Washington Mothersingers. Christmas 1953

When taken: 1956.
Where taken: Tacoma.

What memories are contained in these photos: Mothersingers appeared at Washington Grade School pageants along with student choruses, They also appeared at teas, events.

Photograph backside contains text: Mothersingers Picnic Summer 1956.

When taken: 1969.
Where taken: 4016 North 14th. Tacoma WA, 98406 (?)
Who is in these photographs: Theodore Jonas Jensen 1902-1989 (Born in Whatcom county, WA)
What memories are contained in these photos: Polaroid Swinger Photo 1969 by Laura L. Jensen
Theodore J Jensen, on 24th Street, 1951-1989 - replaced furnace that burned coal with an electric furnace in 1969.

Backside of photograph contains text: Jensen 1969 Theodore

Backside of photo contains text:
Washington School -- Tacoma, Washington -- May 1956 --- Marie Porter Ya
4th row: Vernon Farvour, Laura Jensen, Mike Teague, Brooke Johnsor, Chris Cullett, Shelley Garnes
3rd. row: Pam Miller, Jimmy Yadon, Judy Wheeler, Peter Ashmore, Jan Thompson, Randy Malanea
2nd. row: Chipper Canis, Robert Wuerch, Marlene Moniot, Linda Hopki. Kathy Risch, Pal Starkey
1st. row: Douglas Diel, Judy Johnson, Timmie Schneebeck, Po-Ko (monkey)

Backside of photo contains text:
Top row: - Laura Jensen, Jolyon Raymond, Jeff Perkins, Kristina Berg, Parker Estvold, Jimmy Stevens
2nd Row:- Jim Braun, Vernon Farour, Jim Broneu, Mark Lackey, Danny Mann, Carolyn Bruno
3rd Row:- Dail Fidler, Carrie Shark, Jim Johnson, Ken Birkley, Randy Malanca, Jimmy Mockner
2nd Row:- Pamela Miller, Judy Wheeler, Helen Sorlie, Linda Hopkins, Diane Johnson, Archie Brooking
1st Row:- Christy Breusaugh, Brenda Eggens, Paul Brotman, Mike Edmundson, Kathy Buckmiller
Teacher:- Juanita (Caper) Carlson

Item description provided by Marcia Pearson Crews.

Name of recipe: Henry's Bakery Gingerbread Boy Cookies
Who created this recipe: Henry's Bakery
How long has it been in the family: Henry's Bakery at Proctor made this recipes from the 1950s until it closed.
What memory do you have of it: Who made the world's best glazed donuts, maple bars, and ginger-bread cookies? Henry's Bakery of course. Growing up three blocks from Proctor I had these treats often. The TNT ran a copy of the gingerbread boy cookies many years ago and this is a copy of it. Delicious!

When taken: A print of a word document
Where taken: Tacoma
Who is in this photograph: Description is list of contents of CD - A transfer from cassette 1978.

What memory is contained in this photo: (No CD was transfered to digital) cassette was transferred to CD by PLU archives for me to have - during a CD transfer project.

About Linnea Gord Jensen, written by Laura Jensen:
"Linnea Gord Jensen was a talented piano player who began lessons in 1910, age 9. She began accompaniment with the Order of Runeberg Choir tour to Finland in 1930. She became the O.R. Choir director in 1934 when their director retired. With the PTA in 1953 she accompanied the Mothersingers, directed by Margaret McGregor, a piano teacher from the Proctor Neighborhood. Linnea Gord Jensen continued with Mothersingers, then with a different women's choir, The Trebleaires, directed by Mrs. Margaret Beddoes. Linnea Gord Jensen also had been a secretary from 1930 to 1945 and volunteered time in the 1950s as a mimeograph worker, she did a newsletter for the Kindergarten called Pitter Patter News. She mimeographed the yearly PTA Information booklets".