There were 1,335,082 total paid admissions for the 100 days of the Centennial and they were handled bu members of Local B-20, Portland, Oregon. Unlike the pomp opening on June 10th, the closing September 17, 1959 was a simple one in a drizzling rain. At midnight the eternal flame atop the Gas Company's pyrohedrom was darkened. The Gayway rides were either gone of closed. Ditto the ice cream stands and the Portland Zoo Railway. Doc Holiday shot his last blank "bullet" at the Okay Corral in his final gunfight. Earl Mossman a personal friend of Brother Lawrence Fritz, Local 159, and his can-can girls, presented their last show for a crowd of friends in the Golden Nugget. They had done over 500 performances.

At the Paramount Theatre the San Francisco Opera palyed from September 3rd thru 7th. The take was over $82,000.00 for the run with twenty-four from Local 28 working the shows including Brothers John DiSciullo, William Goritsan and George Howard along with Brother Frank McGuire, Local 16, San Francisco, Road Carpenter. Mary Costa was one of the stars that performed during their stay in Portland. Other attractions that played during the 100 days were: Roy Rogers, Country America, Harry Belafonte, The Water Show, Art Linkletter and Ricky Nelson.

Local No. 175 celebrated their Golden Anniversary December 8th, 1959 at The Towers in Tacoma. The local was chartered fifty years ago on December 1st, 1909 as an affiliate of the I.A.T.S.E.

The membership of the original group, as listed on the Charter, was as follows: James McNiesh, V.H. Taylor, C.G. Deithesh, H.W. Wooden, A.E. Soulte, Carl Ellis, L.E. Stringer, C.A. Miller, J.C. Ryan, H.W. Taylor, J.C. Manning, Clyde Ellis, J.L. Ware, G.W. Tope, D.P. Lea and Howard Lea. To many of us there are just so many names. We never knew the men. We do, however, know that the owners of these names were the men who built and guided the Local through its early years. Of the original group, only L.E. Stringer is still with us. We do have several members who can recall the early days of the Local. This Group includes O.M. (Jake) Jacobson, H.M. (Bill) Leonard, G.E. (Gerry) Manning and R.L. (Roy) Kneeland.

To these men this Anniversary date has a special meaning above and beyond ang significance it can possibly have to us of the later generation.

There were 176 people at the Anniversary. They had come from Butte, Montana, Anacortes, Bellingham, Seattle, Bremerton, Olympia and Centralia, Washington. From Portland, Oregon and our friends up north, Vancouver, B.C.

Some of the dignitaries who attended were Governor Albert D. Rosellini of the State of Washington, Congressman Thor Tolleson, Jerry Hagen, State Labor Commissioner, Ed Weston, President of the Washington State Labor Council and Dick Clevenger, Central Labor Council. From the theatres were: William Connors, Hamrick Theatres and William Forman from the Forman Theatres. Assistant Internatinal President Walter F. Diehl came all the way from New York for the occasion.