Seven photographs of the 1949 Cherry Festival Parade with McLellan's, The State Theater and the door to the Elks Club in the background. The floats from Central Grade School and St. Francis School are included in the pictures as well as a group of…
Elks Club members and perhaps officers:
Picture #1 Claude "Deke" Curtiss, Charles Ritter (Highwood Bookstore near Suttons Bay), Robert Weaver (Weaver's House of Flowers)
Picture #2 (all unk.)
Elks Club (BPOE 323) float which participated in the first Blessings of the Blossoms Festival Parade in Traverse City on May 22, 1925. It is shown on a residential street.
A welcome home and appreciation banquet for the WWII veterans of the Traverse City Elks Lodge #323. Lesie Petertyl is on the far right identified with a "*".
Elks party with members dressed up in vintage military uniforms. (L-R) Emil Schmidt-Civil War,
Jim Cavis- WW1, Bill Kleis- WW1, Martin Winnie- Spanish American War and J.B. Valade- Spanish American War.