A black and white photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring a Gay Nineties parade float with a Victorian-era pump organ and phonograph. The buildings pictured in the background that housed JCPenney, Gimre's Shoes, Dunlap's Music, and a local barbershop no longer exist due to a fire that ravaged the four buildings in downtown Forest Grove in 1982.
A black and white photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring an elementary school student experiencing a brain freeze from eating ice cream during a Gay Nineties event in 1961.
A black and white photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring three elementary school students dressed up in old fashioned prairie dresses for the Gay Nineties festival in the 1960s.
A black and white photograph featuring two elementary school students dressed up in old fashioned shawls and hats for the Gay Nineties festival in the 1960s. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring an elementary school student presenting a bunch of pussy willows to his teacher during the Gay Nineties festival in 1961. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring elementary school students trying on miniature, homemade, Gay Nineties-themed hats. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring elementary school students in bowler hats and moustaches imitating the Barbershop Ballad Contest in 1960. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring contestants of the Forest Grove High School Gay Nineties dress-up contest in 1952. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring Forest Grove High School teachers dressed up in Gay Nineties attire in 1952. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring a Gay Nineties-themed dance for students in the Central School gymnasium in 1961. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph featuring Ruth King (later named Ruth Draper) winning the Gay Nineties Forest Grove High School dress-up contest in 1953. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
A black and white photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring junior high school students dancing in the school gymnasium during a Gay Nineties event in 1961. Forest Grove resident Becky Storey Crumb is believed to be pictured.
A black and white photograph featuring a Gay Nineties-themed school assembly at the old Forest Grove High School on Elm Street in 1952. The photographer is unknown, but it may have been Allan J. de Lay, a staff photographer for The Oregonian who took numerous photographs of the event over the years.
In this staged photograph by Allan J. de Lay, a student is portrayed as receiving corporal punishment at the hands of his teacher during a Gay Nineties event at school in 1961.
A photograph by Allan J. de Lay featuring the KPTV Portland television station visiting a Forest Grove elementary school during the Gay Nineties festival and All-Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest in 1961.
