Expo ’74 celebrated Father’s Day with special guest Sonora Smart Dodd, the woman who founded Father’s Day.
As he took the stage, the 92-year-old Dodd chuckled and said, “I’m not as young as I was 50 years ago.”
She made a few brief comments, saying she has lived in Spokane since she was 5 years old and has “been happy here my whole life.”
Dodd was also known as a poet and author, and two of her works were read aloud and she was presented with a plaque in her honor.
In other World’s Fair news, the Mayor of Pasadena was present to present the Queen of Roses Trophy to the float, commemorating the victory of the Expo ’74 float earlier that year.
What happened 100 years ago: Five-year-old Robert Rockwell walked several miles from his visiting aunt’s house to board a train bound for Seattle, delaying the arrival of a passenger train.
He waited until he found a large family and climbed aboard with them. After the train departed, the father realized there were “too many children.”
He notified the conductor, who stopped the train, reversed course and returned to the depot.
Robert refused to get off the train until the conductor bribed him with chocolates.
“I have an uncle in Seattle and I was just going to visit him,” Robert explained.
This day too
(From onthisday.com)
1877: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of White Bird Canyon in Idaho Territory.
