Tillicum Tacoma Summerland float in the 1956 Daffodil Parade on Pacific Avenue. People wave in swimming suits and baseball caps with North Pacific Plywood Inc. building and water tower in the background.

Unidentified float in the 1956 Daffodil Parade on Pacific Avenue with North Pacific Plywood Inc. building and water tower in the background. The float depicts a mountain made out of daffodils, a sheet for the snowcap and green crepe paper grass. There is a Paul Bunyan character skiing down the mountain with a beard and a red cap.

Jordan's Sunbeam Bread float in the 1956 Daffodil Parade on Pacific Avenue. Children are on float waving and Union Station can be seen in the background.

A parade of military personnel marching down Pacific Avenue holding flags in the 1956 Daffodil Parade on Pacific Avenue. A large Coca Cola sign and what is now the Murray Morgan bridge can be seen in the background.

The Majorettes lead by Shirley Hunter at the 1954 Daffodil Parade with the Murray Morgan bridge visible in the background.

Uniformed men on horses leading a small carriage pulled by a smaller horse with a sign reading "Tacobat Grotto Horse-Show for Spastics, Sunday- May 16-54." Tacobat Grotto is a University Place fraternal organization.

Float for the Pease & Sons Appliance Center. The float behind this is carrying an accordion, guitar and piano player and what looks like a man behind a camera wearing headphones broadcasting the event. The second float has signs reading "Gospel" and "Western Aires."

Float for Art's Glass and Upholstery Shop with group trailing holding a banner for South Kitsap High in Port Orchard, Washington and a baton twirler at the 1954 Daffodil Parade.

Float for Tacoma Public Utilities with participants in dresses riding flanked by people in white suits and hats at the 1954 Daffodil Parade. Buildings with signage for BPOE and Moreland Ford Cars can be seen in the distance.

Float for Tacoma Public Utilities with Daffodil Queen waving at the 1956 Daffodil Parade. A Puyallup Furniture sign can be seen in the background.

Float for Tacoma Public Utilities with Daffodil Queen and other participants at the 1956 Daffodil Parade. A Macy's building with a Coca-Cola painted sign can be seen in the background along with a crowd on the roof of The Music Shop and a Jeweler with an obscured name.

Float for Pacific Lutheran College with participants waving and smiling below a representation of palm trees at the 1954 Daffodil Parade.

Float for Pacific Lutheran College with participants smiling below a representation of palm trees at the 1954 Daffodil Parade.

Saraki-Sagami wedding photo at the altar.

Scott-Brown Wedding photo with bridesmaids smiling and talking.

Double exposure photo of Scott-Brown wedding with bride being attended to.

Fort Lewis buffet featuring pickles, aspic desserts, gourds and cake.

Link-Colvert wedding photo with bride and bridesmaids.

Boitono-Ennis wedding photo with couple looking at ring and crucifix in the background.

Yasuda-Miyamoto wedding photo of the couple inside of a vehicle with plaid interior seating.

Boitono-Ennis wedding photo of two children in purple dresses holding flower arrangements.

Yasuda-Miyamoto wedding photo of bride and groom cutting the cake with floral arrangements, fruit bowl and 7-Up bottle in the background.

Third Division Reunion at Fort Lewis. Military unit on parade grounds. The 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Force, fought three major engagements in France: at Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne- Meuse (T. Times 7/15/1937, p 1).

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Tacoma Day at the Western Washington Fair, Puyallup. View of crowd walking around littered fairgrounds. Two women, in center, wear tiny prize-type straw hats. Sign on building "See Tacoma 50 years ago." (T. Times)

Fairs--Puyallup--1930-1940; Western Washington Fair (Puyallup);

Tacoma Day at the Western Washington Fair, Puyallup. A rider allows two young boys to hold a horse's bridle rope. Barns, automobiles and a Puyallup Laundry truck in background.

Fairs--Puyallup--1930-1940; Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Horses--Puyallup;

Over 56,000 people flocked to the Westen Washington Fair in Puyallup on Tacoma Day in September of 1937. Three little visitors, Tommy Veale and Bobby Glover of Bremerton and Patricia Ruth Gray of Tacoma were given instructions by attendant Clayton Osborne on how to drive a toy fire engine on the canvas-top, merry-go-round auto ride.

Fairs--Puyallup--1930-1940; Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Merry-go-rounds--Puyallup; Veale, Tommy; Glover, Bobby; Gray, Patricia Ruth; Osborne, Clayton;

Tacoma Day at the Western Washington Fair, Puyallup. View of capacity crowd in grandstand. Designated fair days encouraged citizens to set record-breaking attendance for their city. On Tacoma Day, over 56,000 attended, handily beating Seattle's 26,000+ on their Day. Schoolchildren got the day off to attend and have fun. (T. Times, 9/23/27 p. 1)

Fairs--Puyallup--1930-1940; Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Spectators--Puyallup; Grandstands--Puyallup;

As always, on Tacoma Day in 1937, food was a major part of the fun at the Puyallup Fair. The teenage and pre-teen students enjoying ice cream bars at a fair concession stand are (l to r) Lief Washburn, Shirley Hamblin, Beverly Anderson, Marjorie Duskie (the tall girl behind Beverly), Geraldine Anderson and Frances Alexander. The girl at the far right in the print dress was not identified. The turnstile registered over 56,000 fair goers on Tacoma Day, September 22, 1937 at the Western Washington Fair. (T.Times, 9/23/1937, p.1)

Fairs--Puyallup--1930-1940; Western Washington Fair (Puyallup); Washburn, Lief; Hamblin, Shirley; Anderson, Beverly; Duskie, Marjorie; Anderson, Geraldine; Alexander, Frances;

1937 Daffodil Parade. Puget Sound Broadcasting Co.'s (KVI) float depicted a musical theme with a daffodil-covered harp, musical notes, and CBS logo. An apartment building, number 1726 above the door, is in the background. (T.Times, 4/10/1937, p.1)

Floats (parades)--Tacoma--1930-1940; Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1937 : Tacoma);

The first horse show of the season at the Tacoma Armory, November 19, 1937. The show is being sponsored by the Headquarters Troop, 24th Cavalry Division, Washington National Guard, known locally as "Troop B." Two men are pictured in the stable area looking at a horse inside a stall. (T. Times, 11/30/1937, p. 5).

Horse shows--Tacoma--1930-1940; Show horses; Washington National Guard, 24th Cavalry Division (Tacoma); State Armory (Tacoma);