Name/Title
MAD Festival, 1976Entry/Object ID
2007-012.A460PDescription
MAD Festival, 1976. These six black and white contact print strips were created for the Lacey Leader newspaper. These images show people engaged in various activities at the 1976 Music, Arts and Dance Festival in Lacey, Washington.
Image 3 appears to show two people putting a child into a pair of adult-sized firefighting pants. The image is overexposed, making it difficult to make out. Image 4 shows a child wearing an adult-sized firefighting coat. An adult is leaning over the child. Image 5 shows an interiro shot of a large tent filled with many people. A man with a bears near the center of the image is looking back at the camera and pointing out the open doorway of the tent. It is not clear what he is pointing at. Image 6 shows another interior shot of the tent. A row of blindfolded people sitting along a long, narrow table is visible near the right-hand edge of the image. One of these blindfolded people is holding a cup and holding it up for a second person to drink from. Image 7 shows the interior of the tent again, but here the people in blindfolds are on the left-hand side of the image. Image 8 shows a view down the table dividing the blindfolded people from the people sitting across from them. Image 9 shows several of the people sitting on the non-blindfolded side of the table. Image 10 shows the crowd in the tent. Image 11 shows a man in a hat leaning forward to eat a piece of pie being held up to his face by a person whose body is outside the left-hand side of the image frame. Image 12 is very similar to the previous image, but here tje photographer has panned to the left slightly. Her the person feeding the pie to the man in a hat's head is visible. This person is wearing a blindfold. Image 13 shows a closer-up view two men eating pieces of pie from other people's hands. Images 14 through 21 likewise shows people eating pie from other people's hands. Image 22 shows a large crowd inside the tent. Image 23 shows many people at the far side of the tent. Six-to-eight mostly empty picnic tables are scattered around the image foreground. Image 24 shows six men and two women standing along the edge of a shallow stage. The man nearest to the camera is kneeling down and has his left arm wrapped around a leg of one of the women. This man is wearing a cowboy hat and is speaking into a midcrophone. Images 25 through 28 show the people on this stage interacting with people standing alongside it. Image 29 shows an umbrella with "Rainier Beer" printed on it centered in the image. This umbrella may be connected to a wooden fence in the image foreground. Image 30 shows three small children playing in a pile of sand or dirt. Image 31 shows a group of men wearing pioneer-style costumes and various historical military-style uniforms, or some combination of the two, standing in a field. Some are holding muskets. Image 32 shows a woman pouring something from a small receptacle in her right hand into a small receptacle in her left hand. Several of the men in pioneer/military-style costumes are watching the woman. Image 33 shows three people holding an uncharged firehose. An early fire engine is parked behind the people. Behind the fire engine is the stage seen in images 24 through 28. Here it can be seen that the stage is inside a converted rail car. Image 34 is similar to the previous image, but here the firehose is spraying. Image 35 shows three women holding a spraying firehose. A man is a cowboy hat is watching them.Made/Created
Date made
1976 - 1976Place
City
LaceyCounty
ThurstonState/Province
WashingtonCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaNotes
Date: Late August, 1976
Medium: Photographic Paper/Photographic EmulsionLexicon
Search Terms
People, Events, MAD Festival, Fire hoses