Rainier, Oregon's 1961 Rainier Daze
July 22 & 23

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Rainier Daze 1961 button.
The Rainier Daze schedule of events from the July 20, 1961 issue of the Rainier Review.
The 1961 Rainier Daze candidates. Seated, left to right: Marie Combs and Rosemary Young. Standing: Loretta Philbrook (the 1960 queen), Georgette Bleth and Laritta Cramer. Missing from photo was Cheri Jennings and Diana Lepin (per a caption in the July 20 Rainier Review). Georgette Bleth was crowned queen.
The Elsinore, once an excursion boat and later a passenger ferry, for years transported workers from Rainier to local mills. It met its end as a bonfire on July 21, 1961 as part of the Rainier Daze activities (from the July 6, 1961 issue of the Rainier Review).
The Elsinore in better days.


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