Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1928 (3)

By: lindberg

lindberg — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:31:20 +0000

Darn, I wish I’d seen this sooner — I was in Nampa yesterday and drove past the 11th St. chapel. It would have been fun to compare the photo to the building and confirm it’s the same.

Fun photos, as always!

By: reed russell

reed russell — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:00:50 +0000

Thanks for posting these, Ardis – they’re always fun.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:38:47 +0000

Oh, it’s those crazy Canucks! They’ll do darn near anything for fun.

By: Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:21:13 +0000

The first image that caught my attention was the spirit of camaraderie among the Oakland girls. They look to be about the same age as achievement days girls. Wouldn’t it be great to have a Primary teacher like that one? The dinosaur float gave me a chuckle. My grandma used to be involved from time to time in the float-building that happened every year for the 24th of July parade in her small Mormon town.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:02:04 +0000

Heh, hadn’t thought of that, TOClark!

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:29:41 +0000

That Ogden Ward Kindergarten is HUGE. And am I the only one that finds dancing around a maypole in front of a temple a slight juxtaposition?

By: David Y.

David Y. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:32:26 +0000

Some great shots. I suspect that the photos of the groups in Nampa, Idaho are in front of the 11th Avenue chapel, but I can’t quite match the shots with Google’s streetview.

The Oakland, California girls in pants? Scandal!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:29:29 +0000

I had a choice of quite a few floats from that parade, Steve — why’dya think I picked the Uintah Stake float??

Yes, missionaries held Primaries for non-LDS kids quite often. It was considered a good way to present the LDS gospel to local people. Missionaries would canvass a neighborhood and explain what the program was, and get the permission of parents, sometimes even enlist them to help in the organization, and teach a “neighborhood” Primary, one that focused on recreation and health and general Christian purposes (the idea was NOT to secretly inculcate Mormonism behind parents’ backs). Kids would come home singing little Primary songs about Jesus and brushing their teeth and sharing, and the missionaries had an easier time getting into homes to teach families.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:08:38 +0000

I lived for a while in the Joplin, MO stake and spent quite a bit of time in Joplin at YSA activities (I am still sad about the stake center getting destroyed by the tornado last year). I find the picture in the post quite interesting. What was the Primary for Non-LDS kids? Was that a common program in the Church? How did it work?

Uintah stake with a dinosaur??? How could they promote “evilution”?