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Franklin High School Band at Snoqualmie Pass, January 1938
Franklin High School Band at Snoqualmie Pass, January 1938
TitleFranklin High School Band at Snoqualmie Pass, January 1938
PhotographerUnknown
Date1938
CaptionVictor McClelland had a band program at Franklin High School, located in Seattle's Rainier Valley, that was the envy of schools throughout the region. In 1938 the band was invited to perform at Snoqualmie Pass for the inaugural run of the Ski Train to the new Snoqualmie Ski Bowl near Hyak at the east entrance to the Milwaukee Railroad Cascade Tunnel. Performing on skis resulted in spills and dents and in one instance the bass drum arriving at the bottom of the hill before the band. The band gained national publicity for their part in the inaugural trip on the first regularly scheduled ski train in the country. The event was covered by Universal Newsreel and was showing at the Music Box Theatre in Seattle as well as across the nation. During World War II, the band often performed in parades and sites throughout the area promoting the sale of war bonds to help the war effort. One of their most popular performing sites was Victory Square, between 4th and 5th Avenues by the Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle, where visiting celebrities would join the effort to sell war bonds to the thousands of spectators that came to see them.
NotesHandwritten on border: For RVHS. 1930's. Franklin Band on Mt. Rainier [sic].
SubjectsBands--Washington (State)--Seattle
Students--Washington (State)--Seattle
Snow--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie Pass
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Snoqualmie Pass
Digital CollectionRainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection
Accession Number01.022.01
Ordering InformationTo order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number.
RepositoryRainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle
Repository CollectionRainier Valley Historical Society Collection
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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