The Tacoma Moose Lodge sponsored the youth accordion band as part of its civic affairs program. The youngsters gave concerts open to the public the second Sunday afternoon of each month in the Moose Temple on Commerce Street. Any accordionist under 21 was eligible. R.A. Kieszling was the conductor of the band as well as being a musician and music teacher in Tacoma. He is seen on the right in a black suit. (TNT, 9/16/1949, p.A-10)

Music education--Tacoma--1940-1950; Children playing musical instruments--Tacoma--1940-1950; Musicians--Tacoma--1940-1950; Accordions; Music ensembles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Kieszling, Robert A.;

Christmas bags, Moose Lodge, Ray Newland. Members of the Moose lodge, their wives and a boy have gathered to pack 1,000 gift bags to be distributed at the lodge's annual Christmas party. One man is on a step ladder decorating the top portion of a large Christmas tree near the stage at the Moose Lodge. Three other men are decorating the lower portion of the tree. Names listed in newspaper. (TNT, 12/23/1949, p.16)

Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Christmas trees--Tacoma; Bags;

The Moose Lodge sponsored a youth accordion band open to anyone 21 years or younger. A. Kieszling was the conductor of the band as well as being a musician and music teacher in Tacoma. He is seen in the upper right in a black suit. This group includes snare and base drummers and several other percussion players. One boy on the right is holding an electric guitar.

Music ensembles--Tacoma; Children--Social life--1940-1950; Children playing musical instruments--Tacoma--1940-1950; Accordions; Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Kieszling, Robert A.; Drums; Guitars;

Forrest M. LaSuer, secretary of the Tacoma Moose Lodge, won a membership drive contest in June 1949. Harold Jordan, secretary of the Kelso-Longview Moose Lodge, lost the contest and was required to push LaSuer in a wheelbarrow, wearing a feed-sack dress with bonnet. LaSuer enjoyed the ride - he is wearing his own bonnet and night shirt, is holding a baby bottle and smoking a cigar. Jordan pushed the triumphant LaSuer past the Moose Lodge quarters at 737 Commerce St. (7/5/1949, p.2)

Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Wheelbarrows; Bottle feeding--Tacoma--1940-1950; Cigars; Bonnets; Dresses--Tacoma--1940-1950; LaSuer, Forrest M.; Jordan, Harold;

Group of eleven women at Moose Hall, Ladies of the Moose, Mrs. Oscar Aus. The new officers of the Women of the Moose were installed at their June 20, 1949, meeting. Wearing floor-length dresses and corsages, they are, L-R, front row, Mrs. Anna Graff, recorder, Mrs. Thor Lindblad Jr., graduate regent, Lucille E. (Mrs. Oscar) Aus, senior regent, Anne (Mrs. Francis) Coe, Jr., regent, and Inez B. (Mrs. Henry) Schupp, assistant guide. Back row, Hazel M. (Mrs. Clarence) Holden, pianist, Irma H. (Mrs. Goodwin) Moe, treasurer, Mrs. Loretta Martin, chaplain, and Sue (Mrs. Joe) Gagnon, sentinel. (TNT, 7/10/1949, p.D-9)

Ladies of the Moose (Tacoma); Moose Temple (Tacoma); Evening gowns--Tacoma--1940-1950; Flowers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Group portraits;

Group of eleven women at Moose lodge. They wear floor-length dresses and each hold a tussie-mussie-style bouquet in front of them. Ordered by Mrs. Coe.

Ladies of the Moose (Tacoma); Moose Temple (Tacoma); Evening gowns--Tacoma--1940-1950; Flowers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Women--Tacoma--1940-1950; Group portraits;

Several members of Moose Lodge 435 pose together following the installation of the newly elected 1951-52 officers, headed by Robert C. Hague as governor. He is seated second from the left. Other officers were William L. Curtwright as junior governor, C. Stan Falk as prelate, Norman S. Sater as trustee, and Fred C. Kellsey for his 20th year as treasurer.They are wearing tuxedoes and boutonnieres. Other festivities for the weekend included the annual officers' ball on Saturday night and a breakfast Sunday morning honoring retiring governor C. Chet Stone. (TNT, 4/27/1951, p.B-5)

Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1950-1960; Men--Social life--1950-1960; Tuxedoes; Hauge, Robert C.;

James M. Ballard, of Seattle, left, and national supreme junior governor, hands the gavel to Robert C. Hauge as he was installed as the new governor of the Tacoma Moose Lodge on April 24, 1951. Mr. Hauge was a graduate of Lincoln High School and Pacific Lutheran College and was a teacher at Vaughn School on the Gig Harbor Peninsula. John H. Anderson, mayor of Tacoma, is standing second from the right, and S. Ralph Frazier, special representative of the supreme lodge enrollment department, stands on the right. (TNT, 4/27/1951, p.B-5)

Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Hauge, Robert C.; Anderson, John H.; Frazier, S. Ralph; Ballard, James M.; Fraternal organizations--Tacoma--1950-1960; Men--Social life--1950-1960;

On March 13, 1952, Ted Hill (far left), representing the Citizen's Armed Forces Committee, accepted an armful of magazines and paperback books from George W. Cairns, chairman of the Moose's Lodge Boy Scout Committee. The scout master for Moose troop 435 and over twenty of the troop's members, most in uniform, watched from behind the third stack of magazines donated by the troop to the U.S. forces stationed in Korea. The servicemen were short of reading material, particularly men's magazines, comic books and paperbacks. Each fire station in Tacoma was accepting donations. (TNT, 3/23/1952, p.A-4)

Boy Scouts (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma); Fraternal organizations--Tacoma; Magazines; Hill, Ted; Cairns, George W.;

Women of the Moose are honoring visitors. Bessie Lovitt, Graduate Grand Regent from Long Beach, California and Mrs. Elmer Eggleston, Grand Regent, of Seattle are both guests from the College of Regents. In honor of Ms. Lovitt a class of candidates will be initiated in the Moose. View of moose head above Ladies Degree Team at Moose Temple (T. Times, 5/11/46, p. 2).

Women--Clubs--Tacoma; Evening gowns--Tacoma; Moose; Hunting trophies; Moose Temple (Tacoma);

Moose Lodge, group of thirty men and women wear western clothes and cowboy boots and pose in the lobby of the lodge.

Group portraits; Loyal Order of Moose, Tacoma Lodge 435 (Tacoma);