HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 Issue 4 - Strike Up the BandDecember 2008 Volume 39, Number 4
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Renton’s love affair with musical expression
By Tom Monahan
Over the many years since this area was first settled by humans, musicians and singers of every instrument imaginable
and countless musical styles have banded together to make life a little more enjoyable through their music. Whether they
used the “instrument” of the human voice, or something more traditional like a trumpet, drum, or accordion, Rentonians
have never been timid about making a “joyful noise.” This article examines some of the most interesting bands and
musicians that Renton has ever produced.
“I hate music, especially when it is played.”- Jimmy Durante1
Above: The “Big Drum” of the Renton High School Band, circa 1956. This bass drum was reported to be
the largest in the state at the time. (#2008.016.003)
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Renton Historical Quarterly
Susie Bressan, Graphic Design & Layout
Louise George, Copy Editor
Daisy Ward, Text Input & Copy Editor
Karl Hurst, City of Renton Print and Mail Services
Renton Historical Society
Board of Trustees
Laura Clawson, President
Sandra Meyer, Vice President
Elizabeth P. Stewart, Secretary
Paula Tran, Treasurer
Kevin McQuiller, '08
Susie Bressan '09
Martha Zwicker, '09
Lynn Bohart '09
Robin Baches '10
Theresa Clymer '11
Robert S. Green '11
Larry Sleeth, '11
Kristie Walker '11
Terri Briere, City Liaison
Museum Staff
Elizabeth P. Stewart, Museum Director
Daisy Ward, Administrative Assistant
Dorota Rahn, Volunteer Coordinator
Tom Monahan, Research Specialist
Sarah Iles, Collection Manager
Pearl Jacobson, Registrar
Louise George, Secretary
Renton History Museum
235 Mill Avenue South
Renton, WA 98057
Phone: 425.255.2330
FAX: 425.255.1570
Board Meetings: Please call the museum
for time and location.
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm
Admission:$3 for adults
$1 for children
Always free to members and to the
general public on the first Wednesday
and third Saturday of the month.
By Laura Clawson, President
President's Message
Change is coming to Renton History Museum! It’s exciting! We are finished
with the coal car exhibit, the Century to Century exhibit is catalogued and
stored in preparation for the upcoming
Key Ingredients exhibit this March,
and I just picked up a package of
proposals from prospective Master
Plan consultants to be reviewed. You
might say this is the calm before the
storm. Next year the Master Plan
Task Force will be in full swing. The
traveling Smithsonian Key Ingredients
exhibit will arrive and a Renton
component, Sustaining A City, will be
built, the largest new exhibit since
Century to Century opened in 2001.
But coming down to Earth, let’s talk
about something I’m frequently asked:
the City of Renton / Renton Historical
Society / Renton History Museum
relationship. Steve Anderson explained at every teachable moment but it took a
couple years before I really got it. Others, too, struggle to understand. What
belongs to the Society? What to the Museum? What to the City? Who pays
for what? Who does what?
Renton Historical Society (RHS) partners with the City of Renton to manage
and support the Renton History Museum.
In this partnership, the City provides one full-time employee, Museum Director
Liz Stewart, and two part-time employees, Administrative Assistant Daisy Ward
and Research Specialist Tom Monahan. The City owns and maintains the
historic fire station building that houses the Museum, and provides computer and
printing support. The City has been invaluable to the continued success of the
Museum by providing operational support that RHS can build on.
RHS covers all expenses relating to our mission of preserving and educating
about the city’s heritage. RHS has one full-time employee, Collection Manager
Sarah Iles, and one part-time staff, Volunteer and Education Coordinator Dorota
Rahn. The Society owns the entire collection, plus office furniture and supplies,
and we recently purchased the Annex Building. The RHS Board of Trustees
provides oversight, governance, policies, and procedures, as well as raising
funds for our mission.
RHS is Renton’s sole heritage organization. Without the vision and drive of
Ernie Tonda and early organizers we would not have a Museum. The Renton
History Museum is the end product of the City-Society partnership, a place
where people gather to hear and see and learn Renton’s history, a place where
we “Capture the Past, Educate the Present and Inspire the Future.”
RHS members, the City of Renton and Renton citizens all support the Museum,
but the Museum serves the community in return. Educational services, preserva-
tion of elements that would otherwise be lost and collection of artifacts, photo-
graphs, and historical documents can answer questions about history, genealogy,
and related topics from both interested citizens and City government. At the
Museum we are telling the unique stories of Renton that no other organization is
telling.
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Renton Museum Report
By Elizabeth P. Stewart
As we look forward to the holiday
season, many of us are thinking about
how to make this one the best one
possible, in spite of financial worries. In
researching a recent article about Renton
in the Great Depression, I looked at what
was happening here when Franklin
Delano Roosevelt came into office. By
late 1932 national unemployment was
25% and thousands of Americans had
lost their homes or farms. Although our
current situation is not as dire as the
1930s, it is instructive to look at how the
city responded. By the time FDR took
office in March 1933 he represented a
spirit of change, and while not everyone
was confident his ideas would work,
Rentonians had high hopes for the future. I found a surprising can-do spirit.
Business owners trumpeted their willingness to continue investing in the city in
spite of tight cash, and consumers committed themselves to spending locally
whatever little money they had.
A similar movement is underway now. Sustainable Seattle, Communities Count,
SoCo Culture, and many other local organizations have joined together to promote
“Celebrate Local,” a drive to encourage King County citizens to patronize local
merchants, to buy green, and to consider giving experiences instead of things for
the holidays. How would this work for you? Instead of shopping at chain stores or
Southcenter, you could get to know what Renton shops have to offer. You could
give tickets for performances at Evergreen City Ballet or Renton Civic Theatre, or
best of all, give Renton Historical Society memberships as gifts!
If tough economic times lead you to redouble your support for local institutions,
then something good will have come from the uncertainty. The Renton History
Museum has so much to offer you, your family, and friends, and your support and
involvement—of all kinds—can only make us better.
In 2009 the Museum will be working with consultants on a Museum Master Plan
that will provide us a blueprint for the next 15 years of the Museum’s life. Like
Renton business owners of the 1930s, we are determined to continue investing in
our city. But to be truly successful we need you to redouble your commitment to
supporting our efforts. As you plan for the holidays and 2009, please remember to
donate your money and your time. Attend our programs, give us suggestions for
improvement, and tell your friends and family that you believe the Renton History
Museum is important. In this way, you ensure that Renton’s heritage will be
preserved for future generations. And that is truly a gift you can be proud of!
For more information on the “Celebrate Local” movement, see
http://sustainableseattle.blogspot.com/2008/10/celebrate-local.html.
For SoCo Culture’s handy calendar of local events, go to
http://www.sococulture.org/html/calendar.html.
To follow Museum news and updates, join us at http://twitter.com/rentonhistory.
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Singing Sparrows and Musical Miners
Before the city of Renton was founded, local tribes living in this area used song as a means of cultural expression. Tales
passed down over generations frequently contained references to main characters singing songs during their adventures:
Ground Sparrow got his face dirty gathering wood from old burned cedar stumps. He never did really wash his
face. He was just dipping his hands and calling his uncles. After he touched his face, he felt so bad! He called the
whole family of Chinook Wind. He sang: “Uncles I am washing my face; rain in long drops, rain in long drops.”
We call that bird Spetsxu. He is the ground sparrow or swamp sparrow. If ground sparrow is taking a bath on a
sunny day and facing south, look out; it will rain. –Puyallup tribal story “The man who would not wash his face
(4th version).”2
The Native peoples of this area felt that song was not just an amusing way to pass the time when the work day was
finished, but that their songs contained
magical energy to affect the world
around them. As illustrated in the story
above, animals with supernatural
powers, who served as guardian spirits
for individuals and tribes, would often
use songs and chants to accomplish
their objectives. All the major tribes in
the Puget Sound area, from the
Duwamish and Puyallup, to the
Snoqualmie and Skagit, have similar
tales that involve songs which harness
magical powers. According to writer
K. G. Watson, if a village did not
possess a separate structure for
ceremonial use, one of the large
dwelling houses could be cleared of
partitions and converted to a meeting
place where tribal members could
spend nights sharing dances and songs
given to them by their guardian spirits
as proof of their relationship with the
supernatural world. Everyone present
would then benefit from the super-
natural powers that the sacred music
would unleash.3
When white settlers moved into the area in pursuit of employment, they also brought with them a deep interest in music.
As early as 1888, the working men of Renton began to come together with their favorite wind instruments in the form of
the Renton Brass Band, the first of its kind in the city. Dressed in pseudo-military fashion, with Kepis on their heads and a
drummer boy in the vanguard, the RBB made a quite a spectacle while on parade. No doubt their martial look was heavily
inspired by the military bands that many of the men had witnessed and possibly been a part of during the Civil War, just
two decades earlier.
As more and more people began to immigrate to Renton for work, bands and choirs also began to spring up along ethnic
lines. Cultures where singing was valued—like the Welsh, Irish, and Italian communities—found fertile ground for inter-
ested singers and musicians in this area. Choirs became especially popular in turn-of-the-century Renton, as miners and
lumberjacks did not always have extra funds with which to purchase musical instruments. The Welsh community was
particularly fond of their choir, which was attached to their own Welsh-language church, and which performed religious
and ethnic songs brought over from Wales. No doubt the songs from the old country were a consolation to many a miner
who found himself far from his home and familiar faces. This musical tradition continued for quite a few years after the
mines shut down, until the population of native Welsh speakers declined due to old age. The Renton History Museum still
maintains a number of concert programs from over the years, which attest to a lively tradition of choral singing among the
Welsh in Renton.4
Above: Renton Brass Band, the first of its kind in the city, ca. 1888. (#1976.014.0843)
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Rock &Roll High School
As the population of Renton began to increase and diversify, many more organizations and groups began to explore music
as a way to express themselves. The local schools were quick to see the value of music for a well-rounded education.
Renton High School got in on the growing band phenomenon when it founded its first band shortly before World War I.
Leading the band as its first director was Harlan Beanblossom, and the original line-up included kids from such well-
known Renton families as the Adams, Iddings, and Hancocks. The largest contingent of instruments was in the brass
section, with trumpets, trombones and French horns the most popular. Woodwinds and percussion tied for second place
with two drummers and two clarinet players each.
With this modest beginning, the Renton High School Band grew and transformed over the years into the modern marching
and concert band it is today. But Renton High was not just the birthplace of an official school marching band. In the
1950s, musical styles like rock & roll, folk, and jazz were becoming increasingly popular with young people, and before
long, high school kids from all over Renton were forming their own musical groups. One of the most successful bands to
come out of Renton was formed by Renton High students Stan Farber (class of ’55), Ron Hicklin (’56), Ron Rolla (’54),
and Bob Zwirn (’55). They were known as “The Eligibles.”
Not long after gaining a fan following, the Eligibles were discovered and signed to a major recording label, Copital
Records. They moved down to Hollywood, California to begin recording their tunes. The Renton History Museum has in
its collection one of the Eligibles singles from 1960 containing their song “East of West Berlin,” written about the time that
East and West Berlin were separated by the Berlin Wall.5 As the title indicates, The Eligibles music was not only enter-
taining, but was also socially relevant to the time in which they lived. During their time as a band, The Eligibles recorded
for a number of different labels, including Mercury, Bel-Air, and Fable Records. While the band eventually broke up, some
of the members went on to have very interesting careers as studio musicians, performing with many of the major names in
the music industry.
Above: Renton High School’s first band, date unknown. (#1966.076.0438)
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Strike Up the Band continued from page 5
The Beat Goes On
Renton today is still a city filled with musical expression. The current incarnation of the City’s official musical talent
comes in the form of the Renton City Concert Band. Evolving out of what was once known as the Renton Parks and
Recreation Community Band in the late 1980s, the Renton City Concert Band has grown steadily over the years. Accord-
ing to the band’s website, the orchestra was born out of a brainstorming session including several great musicians from
our area. Randy Rockhill, Jim Young, Harley Brumbaugh and several others started talking about the need for an outlet for
all the talented young musicians who lived in Renton.6
Below: Frank Vaise Post V.F.W. Drum and Bugle Corps, State Champions, 1940. (#2002.014.5605)
This group of musical pioneers decided to invite a group of the most promising musicians they knew to a music reading
session at the Renton High School band room. They were so encouraged by the enthusiasm shown by the participants that
they decided to form a band and begin performing. From their first performance, where band members outnumbered the
audience, the Renton City Concert Band has grown to a group of between 60 and 70 members, representing some of the
finest musicians in the region. The band currently performs at the Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center, and plays to
large enthusiastic audiences all year round, led by their current Director, Michael Simpson.7
It is hard to say what the next musical style to become popular among the citizens of Renton will be like. Whatever it is, it
will carry on a tradition of cultural expression that dates back before recorded history. As the classic Sonny & Cher song
puts it so well, “the beat goes on....”8
1 “Music,” entry in Wikiquote, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Music (accessed 7 November 2008).
2 Arthur Ballard, Mythology of Southern Puget Sound, with additional material by Kenneth G. Watson (Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1929; reprinted., Snoqualmie, WA: Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum, 1999) 50.
3 Ibid, iii.
4 For example, #2002.052.0026, Renton Historical Society Collection, Program From the Annual Baptist Music Festival, ca. 1900, and
#2005.012.001, Program from the St. David’s Day concert at the Grand Theatre, 1918.
5 Renton Historical Society Collection, #2004.007.050.
6 Renton City Concert band Official Website, http://rentoncityconcertband.com (accessed 7 November 2008).
7 Ibid.
8 “The Beat Goes On,” by Sonny & Cher. From the 1967 album, In Case You’re in Love.
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Volunteer Report
By Dorota Rahn, Volunteer and Education Coordinator
Every fall the Museum presents a
series of interesting lectures on
different historical and cultural topics.
This year the Museum commemorated
the events of September 11th, 2001 by
inviting Don Holsinger, professor of
history at Seattle Pacific University, to
talk about The Travels of Ibn
Batutta: Explaining the Divergent
Paths of Islam and the West. His
lecture gave us a lot of insight into the
current conflict between Islam and the
West.
In his words: “For the past 14 centu-
ries, since the rise of Islam in seventh-
century Arabia, the civilizations
centered at the two ends of the Mediterranean, have struggled to understand
each other…. The dramatic shifts in power [between East and West] undermine
such arrogant assumptions on both sides and remind us how much the two
civilizations have in common and how much they have borrowed from each
other.”
The presentation by John Salicco, Jacques Portier – Old Nor’ West, helped us
understand how the pursuit of mutually beneficial interests can be more effec-
tive than force in achieving peace, order, and prosperity. The opening of the
West was first and foremost a business enterprise. Mr. Salicco portrayed an
early 19th century Frenchman named Jacques Portier who reminisces about his
time as a voyageur and a partner in the old Northwest Company.
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month in November, we hosted
Harvest Moon, Coast Salish Ambassador, with her program about Occupations
in the Long House. Harvest Moon described in depth the lives of the carvers,
basket weavers, tree-fallers, and weathermen. She also focused on the role of
women in Coast Salish society. She blended humor, legends, songs, and hands-on
artifacts into her program, evoking a compelling and thought-provoking account
of the Coast Salish culture. Teachings of the First People / Mythic Stories of
the Puget Salish Tribes by Roger Fernandes celebrated the original ancestors
of the Coast Salish world.
In December come celebrate the Holiday Season with Allan Hirsch and The
Real Toy Story. This is a rare opportunity for children and their families to hear
about the origins of toys, and to have a chance to try them out! The program
includes tools that became toys, the Pharoah’s Fan, the Ancient Chinese Bam-
boo Dragonfly, the Eskimo Yo Yo, the Australian Bull Roarer, Native-American
Darts, Rachet Noise-Maker from India, the Greager from Israel, and many,
many more.
I hope to see everybody at the museum enjoying more of the funny, educational,
and very interesting programs we offer.
HOLIDAY EVENTS
December 13 -11:00am
Allan Hirsch and “The Real Toy
Story.” This is a rare opportunity
for children and their families to
hear about the origins of toys and
also to have a chance to try them
out! The program includes tools
that became toys, the Pharaoh’s
Fan, the Ancient Chinese Bamboo
Dragonfly, the Eskimo Yo Yo, the
Australian Bull Roarer, Native-
American Darts, Rachet Noise-
Maker from India, the Greager
from Israel, and many, many more.
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From the Collections Department…
By: Sarah Iles, Collection Manager
The Discovery of Edwin M. Smithers’ Tragic First Marriage
Last year I began a research project to thoroughly document the Smithers family genealogy.
Most of you likely know that Renton’s patriarch, Erasmus Smithers, owned the land on
which the city was platted in 1875. Smithers Avenue and the Thorne Building on Wells serve
as physical reminders of Renton’s roots with this family. While compiling my research, I
relied heavily on the website Ancestry.com, the Puget Sound Archives, and the Renton
History Museum’s own files. I thought that my research was complete until a woman from
California contacted me with information about Edwin M. Smithers (Erasmus’s eldest son)
that was previously unknown to me and, seemingly, to anyone else in Renton. This woman,
following a trail of historical bread crumbs, hypothesized that her ancestor, Jennie Ziegler,
had eloped with Edwin. Wanting confirmation of her theory and additional information about
Edwin, she contacted me. After sorting through the scraps of information, a story of young
love cut short emerged.
We believe Edwin and Jennie married sometime between June 25 and October 29, 1885;
both in their early 20s, they likely eloped. It is unknown how the two met, but in letters now held privately by a relative,
Jennie speaks of a trip to Puget Sound taken in early 1885. Jennie spoke highly of her new husband in a letter to her
uncle. It also indicates, though, that her family might not have approved of the union. Jennie grew up in one of Spokane’s
affluent families. Her father, Louis Ziegler, was a prominent businessman involved in real estate. After their marriage,
Edwin and Jennie settled down in
Renton. Their young marriage,
however, was cut tragically short
when Jennie died in January 1886.
Jennie’s body was returned to
Spokane and was buried in the
Ziegler family plot under her maiden
name, Jennie Louise Ziegler. It is
not known for certain why she was
not buried under her married name,
but it could support the theory that
the Zieglers did not approve of her
marriage to Edwin.
Edwin, now widowed, continued on
with his life. He headed north
during the Klondike Gold Rush and
later returned to Renton where he
held various jobs. It wasn’t until
around 1902 that Edwin married
again to Ella D. Heckman, a school
teacher from Illinois. They had no
children and Edwin died from a
heart attack in 1937 at the age of
75.
I am sure that there is much more
to this story, but it has likely been lost
tohistory. We don’t know how they met,where they were married, how the Smithers family reacted to Edwin’s elope-
ment, and whether or not they approved of his new bride. One thing is for certain though: without this woman’s willing-
ness to share her information, an important detail of Renton’s history would have been forgotten.
New stories such as this one are always out there waiting to be discovered and it certainly keeps the research aspect of
my job very interesting.
Above: Edwin and his second wife, Ella, ca 1915 (RHM# 41.3165)
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the Postmaster and retired in 1957.
In-Kind Contributions
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A RENTON TRADITION:
Last year in the December issue we profiled a
long-time Renton Santa, Lewis Argano, and
asked if anyone knew of other Kris Kringles.
Museum volunteer Margaret Feaster knows one
special Santa Claus. Richard Pochman resides in
Fairwood and volunteers with Starlight Children’s
Foundation, a group that aids children and fami-
lies recovering from serious illnesses. In this
photo, on a December visit Santa Richard—with
his own fully grown beard—had just distributed
Christmas gifts and then led many guests in
carol-singing. Posing with Santa is a happy Logan
Thomas Feaster.
%Obituaries Collected Z denotes former Society member denotes former Society Life Member
(August 2008)Lucille M. Baker
Floyd L. Benson
Mar y Breda
Ron L. Colombi
Patricia M. DeLaurenti
Madeline Rockey Donckers
Roy J. Donckers
Hayes Evans, Jr.
Bernice Monson
Hoggard
Ylova E. McKenney
Roger J. Newton
George Vernon Phillips
Margaret Sewell
Kenneth A. Walls
Arnold “Coach” Young
(Sept. 2008)Jeanne H. Anderson
Wilhelmina “Billie” Crouch
Inez “Toni” Edwards
Doris Gifford
James G. Harries
Delores Jaslowski
Mabel E. Lundy
Chlorine E. Monnett
Michael H. Moses
Lloyd A. Telken
Gladys Wiemann
Vernon Wik
(October 2008)David “Dick” Albertson
William Bagley
Saraphine Collier
Dayle Garrison
Warren Jones
Jana Leupold Lackie
(October 2008)Patricia Roe Marsh
Mar y Ellen MacPherson
Ebbe D. R. Mejlaender
Bernice Morrison
Nell Peters
John Ralston
Charles Trimm
Dorothy Carlson
Vander ford
(November 1-10, 2008)Sue Carlson
Dorothy Frazier Leifer
Elvin “Al” Lewis
Lucy Pratt Ozbolt
Edwin Della Rossa
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Z
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Florence Culp’s
First Day at the Post Office
From the book Coal to Jets, pg 58
On the first day of Florence’s job at the Renton post office in 1927, a
woman came in with a sick, straggly hen with a shipping tag tied to one
leg and left before Florence could get shipping information from her.
Hundreds of day-old chicks were mailed in shipping cartons back then,
but Florence didn’t know what to do
with a sick hen that was not even in
a box. She didn’t think it should go
through the mail but being new to the
job she didn’t want to seem ‘dumb’
so she didn’t ask anyone. She hid the
hen in the back room and when night
came she drove it to the Experiment
Station in Puyallup and they said they
would take care of it.
RentoniansRemembered
Memorials
$100 & Over
Fumiko Hoshide
Lloyd Hoshide with Boeing
Matching Gift
Jeanne Anderson
Carrie & Greg Bergquist
Arlas Babcock
Katie Gilligan
John Belmondo
Joanne & Lee Gregory
Marie Belmondo
Joanne & Lee Gregory
Floyd Benson
Mrs. Mary Ann Kondro
Mar y Margaret Breda
The Bressan Family; Mario & Vic-
tor Tonda
Tony Carpine
John & Eleanor Bertagni
Edwin Della Rossa
Louise George; Florence
Delaurenti; Gloria Duffey; Louis &
Pamela Barei; Betty Sipila; Louise
Bertozzi; Peter & Hazel Newing
Madeline Donckers
Louise George; Florence
Delaurenti; Gloria Duffey; Beth &
Mike Potoshnik; Jean Tonda;
Renton High School Class 1940
Doris Elerding
Katie Gilligan
Dayle Garrison
Richard & Corinne Lucotch;
Wendell & Cleo Forgaard
Robert Gilligan, M.D.
Katie Gilligan
James G. Harries
R. Harlan Petermeyer
Robert Henr y
Katie Gilligan
Warren Jones
Marian Sutton; Al & Shirley
Armstrong; Genie & Don Shaw;
Gwen Blue; Bernie & Fritz
Pflughoft; Teri & Rod McCord; Pat& Dick Bowman
Dale Lamb
John & Eleanor Bertagni
Dorothy Leifer
Al & Shirley Armstrong; Ron &Sharon Clymer
Marina Luckey
Zena Cochran
Mar y Ellen MacPherson
Betty Sipila
Margaret Manney
Katie Gilligan
Violet Meakin
Katie Gilligan
Michael H. Moses
Ron & Sharon Clymer
Gordon Nielson
Katie Gilligan
Roger J. Newton
Greg & Carrie Bergquist
Lucy Pratt Ozbolt
Louise George; FlorenceDelaurenti; Gloria Duffey
Mar y Renkoski
Katie Gilligan
Lloyd Telken
Rosemary Grassi
Thomas Tobacco
Katie Gilligan
Charles Trimm
Wendell & Cleo Forgaard; Al &Shirley Armstrong; John &
Eleanor Bertagni
Kenneth Walls
Greg & Carrie Bergquist
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In Hindsight...
Above: Gerry’s Little German Band,” made up of members of Renton Local 360 American Federation of Musicians, date unknown.
(#2006.049.001)