Name/Title
Fire Chief Floyd Pugh's RetirementEntry/Object ID
2007-012.A640PDescription
These 3 contact print strips were created for the Lacey Leader newspaper. The photos all depict Lacey Fire Chief Floyd Pugh's retirement. He and other LFD officials and employees are seen in these photos. Frame 6, Floyd Pugh is seen center frame wearing a formal Lacey Fire Dept. uniform. His name is clearly printed on his nametag and he is wearing a fire department badge. Floyd's hair is short and neat; he has large lips, and has wrinkles in his face. To his left and right stand 2 men. The man on the right has a large/dark perm and is wearing a short sleeved shirt that has a LFD patch on the shoulder, and LFD pin on his collar, and a firefighter's badge on his breast. He is wearing aviator eyeglasses and a light colored tie. The man to his left is facing away from the camera. The photo was taken with a flash so conspicuous shadows can be seen behind many of the people in the photo. Frame 7, Pugh is on the far left of the frame, facing right. To his right is Karen Frasier, facing Pugh and wearing large square framed glasses. She is holding a coffee cup in her right hand and wearing a light-colored loose-fitting pants suit. To Frasier's right is a man looking at Pugh wearing a dark jacket and slacks. His tie is striped and he is wearing wire rimmed glasses. His hair is dark and parted on the left side of his head. Frame 8, four people stand in front of a folding table with a tape recorder, a coffee cup, and an ash tray on top of it. The 4 men at the table are dressed almost identically to Pugh except for his uniform has three stripes on the cuffs while the other men's do not have stripes. The man on the far left is the youngest of the group and is wearing a double breasted jacket with 6 buttons on the front (Neal Q. Good?). He has a full head of dark hair. He is wearing two metallic LFD pins on his lapels and a LFD badge. Pugh is standing to the right of the man, instead of wearing LFD pins on his lapels he is wearing two small round pins. He is wearing a Lacey fire department patch on the left shoulder of his uniform's jacket. His hands are clasped in front of him and he is looking to his left. To the right of Pugh is a man wearing a different uniform, with a single button closure in the middle of the jacket. His badge looks different from Pugh's and he is the only one of the group wearing a patterned tie. His hair is slicked back and his left hand is in his pants pocket. To the right of him standing in profile is Karen Frasier her hands held behind her back. To the right of Fraser is an elderly man facing left, standing in profile, and wearing wire frame glasses. His jacket as a single button closure and the badge on his jacket is a different shape than the rest of the group's badges. He is balding. Frame 9 Pugh stands center-frame his hands folded in front of him and looking downward. In front of him are a coffee cup and a tape recorder. Left of him sits the youngest firefighter from the previous frame. The man sitting to his right is cut off in the frame. Frame 10, Pugh and the man with the patterned tie are standing in the middle of the frame, Pugh is on the left the other man on the right. They are reaching their hands out to each other for a handshake. The other 3 people around them are all sitting. Frame 11, Pugh stands in front of a table with a coffee cup and tape recorder sitting on its top. He is looking downward and his hands are clasped in front of him. Karen Frasier's hands can be seen clapping on the right of the frame, behind her hands are a man's hands. The edge of the man's face is visible on the right of the frame. Frame 12, the man wearing the LFD lapel pins (left) and Pugh (right) are standing center frame. The man to Pugh's left is standing in profile with his hands held out in front of him in an "I don't know" gesture. Pugh is looking in the man's general direction in a pose very similar to frame 11 (hands clasped, downward glance). A folding chair can be seen in front of him. Frame 13 is very similar to frame 12 but instead is shot in a landscape orientation, both men are looking slightly toward left frame, and they both have their own hands clasped in front of them. Frame 14, the two men from the previous frame are standing in nearly identical positions to the last frames. The photo is in a portrait orientation and heavy shadows can be see behind the figures because of a flash. The two figures are facing each other and the man on the left has his hands splayed over each other in front of him as if mid-clap. A tape recorder, coffee cup, and folding chair can be seen to Pugh's right. Frame 15, the men from the previous frame are center-frame and shaking hands. The two men are looking into each other's eyes the man on the left has his left hand on Pugh's arm while shaking with his right hand. Pugh has his left hand in front of himself as if his hand was clasping his other hand in front of him. Frame 16, Pugh (left) and a woman (right) are standing center-frame. Pugh's hands are mid-clap in front of him. The woman on the right is wearing large spectacles, a shirt-waist dress with loops coming off of the shoulders. Her hair is light and in a perm. She is pressing her finger tips together in front of her and looking straight ahead. Frame 17, Pugh (right) and the woman from the previous frame (left) are standing center frame. They are both visible from the chest up in a landscape oriented photograph. The pair are now smiling. Pugh's badge is flipped around in his breast pocket to make it not visible. The woman in the photo is smiling with a toothy grin. Frame 18, is almost identical to frame 17 but it is shot in a portrait orientation and the woman is not smiling wide enough to show her teeth. Frame 19 & 20 are nearly identical photos of the young man from many of the previous frames wearing LFD formal attire and LFD lapel pins. He is the only figure in the middle of the portrait and shot from the waist up. He is smiling. In frame 19 he is looking toward the right of the frame and in frame 20 he is looking straight ahead.
Pugh, Floyd M. retirement. Hired as fire chief in 1968 as Lacy's 3rd paid fire chief, taking over the position from Carl Anderson. Before that he was a volunteer fire chief (August 1966 part-time) while he was a manager for Darigold. This made him the City's first fire chief. After his retirement his position was taken over by Neal Good who was fire chief until 1988. [Unattributed) Pugh died 1996.
Floyd Pugh is New Lacey Fire Chief," Morning Olympian, August 17, 1966.Made/Created
Date made
1980 - 1980Notes
Date: 09-05-1980
Location of Negative: City HallLexicon
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