Name/Title
Panorama City Flower and Rock ShowEntry/Object ID
2007-012.E639PDescription
These contact print strips were made for the Lacey Leader Newspaper in June 1973. The main theme of these photos is the Panorama City Flower and Rock Show. Frames 6b, 7b, 8b, 14, 15 show 2 men in a separate location, probably a workshop. Frame 6a, a man with a dark unbuttoned cardigan, light colored undershirt and thick framed glasses is mouthing what appears to be an unlit lumberman style tobacco pipe, clenched in his teeth. Behind him in the background are out of focus tools such as cutting and grinding wheels and hammers. Frame 7a, the man from the previous frame is looking at and holding his pipe while he is lighting it. The frame has nearly the same background but you can't see the hammers in the background. Frame 8a shows the man from the previous frame but in a landscape rather than portrait orientation. He is now smoking the pipe and looking left. A wider range of tools can now be seen in the background of the frame, still out of focus. Frame 3, a woman and a girl are looking at a floral arrangement in front of them. The woman is to the left, she is wearing a plaid dress and looking downward, bent over the girl. The girl to her right can barely be seen behind the arrangement of flowers, she is looking to the left of the frame towards the flowers. The background of the shot is out of focus. Frame 4, the woman is now standing straight up, and looking in a directly leftward direction. A man can be seen directly behind her right side, he is out of focus. The man is wearing glasses and has dark colored hair. The child's face is still partially obscured by the flowers in front of her. A man can be seen in the left background looking opposite the camera at a painting. Frame 5 An elderly man is facing right at a large bushy fuchsia, which is taking up the whole right of the frame. The man is wearing browline eyeglasses a dark sports coat and dark undershirt. Frame 6, the shot is very similar to the last fame but is in a portrait orientation instead of a landscape orientation. He is now gently cupping a flower from a large fuchsia in his left hand. His right hand is seen resting at his side. Frame 7, a blurry photo of a woman (left) and a man (right) both looking at a tall bushy plant. The man is dressed in a dark coat/undershirt and tie. The woman has white hair and is wearing a plaid coat. Frame 8 is very similar to frame 7 except that it is in focus, the couple is now smiling, and the man is gently holding a branch of the bush in his left hand. Frame 9, shot in a portrait orientation, an elderly white-haired woman wearing glasses looks toward the left of the frame a flower arrangement obscures much of a male figure to the left of her. Behind her are two rows of dark drawn curtains. Frame 10, very similar to frame 9 but shot in a landscape orientation, the same old woman is obscuring anything distinguishing about a person standing behind her. Out of focus foliage takes up much of the left of the frame. Behind the woman can be seen a blurry figure wearing a plaid coat. Frame 11, a flower arrangement takes up most of the frame, there are what looks like poppies in the arrangement. Frame 12, a short range of focus makes only the central woman's face clear and visible. Much of her face is obscured by blurry foliage. The woman is wearing cat eye style eyeglasses and is wearing a dark sweater over a plaid undershirt (scarf?). To her right are two very blurry figures facing left, one with dark hair and glasses. Frame 13, very similar to frame 12 but the central woman's face can now be seen well as the foliage is largely away from her face. The women in the background cannot be seen. Frame 14, an elderly man is hunched over a bench grinder. He is wearing a loose-fitting short-sleeved shirt, glasses, a metallic banded watch, and is sporting a crew cut. He appears to be paying close attention to his work at the grinder. The tools, paneling on the walls, and industrial ventilation visible in the background make me believe that frames 14 and 15 were not shot in the same location as the flower and rock show. Frame 15, very similar to frame 14 but zoomed in to the man using the grinder. Frame 16, a close-up of a display of geodes. The geodes have small rectangular labels, but only 1.5 of them can be seen because of the large aperture used in this photo. The legible sign is next to the largest geode and reads "THUNDER EGG - ORE" the cut off label reads "…AN COCONUT". There also appears to be two piece of petrified wood and a bolo tie in the display. Frame 17 a bustling table crowded with people are all looking at boxes full of rocks (right) or addressing the two people behind the table of rocks (left). The rocks on the table in the foreground are all in rectangular boxes and lying flat at the end of the table are some small jars full of rocks. The table behind the one in the foreground has a display that props up the rocks at an angle, at the end of that table appears to be a tunable carousel of rocks/jewelry. Frame 18, three people stand in front of a table crowded with rocks. The person closer to the camera is a dark haired woman with a long coat, dark dress, and a large owl pendant at the end of a necklace. Behind her is a woman with short/dark hair and glasses, wearing a large-collared short-sleeved shirt. She is wearing a small pin on her breast and holding a disposable coffee cup. The elderly man behind her has receding/dark hair and glasses. He's holding a disposable coffee cup. Frame 19, three main people are standing in this photo in front of a table. From left to right they are 1. a man wearing a plaid sport jacket, he is elderly and wearing glasses and hearing aids. 2. An elderly woman wearing several strands of pearls, glasses, a long coat and a patterned shirt. She is looking downward. 3. A young boy with shaggy hair and a patterned button-up long-sleeved shirt is looking down at something he is holding in his hands. In the foreground are out of focus wares, some in packets on a tunable display. Frame 20, a group of three people (left) are looking a cut rock displays (right) they are mostly oval-cut pieces of varying size. The boy from frame 19 is to the far right of the group, to his left are two people, respectively an old man and another person. The old man is wearing a plaid button up shirt. To the man's left is a person looking away from the camera, they are wearing a light colored bucket hat and light colored sweater with stripes at its margins. In the right of the frame is an out of focus man, he is holding something in his hands. Frame 21, very similar to frame 20 but the boy is leaning further over the display and the man in the background now has his arms crossed and is looking to the left.Made/Created
Date made
1973 - 1973Place
City
LaceyCounty
ThurstonState/Province
WashingtonCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaNotes
Date: June 1973
Location of Negative: City HallLexicon
Search Terms
Events, Panorama City