In May 1962 attorney general Brock Adams issued an order to stop posting ongoing game scores at public places, on the grounds it promoted illegal gambling. Here Stan Parsons demonstrates the soon-to-be-halted practice, at the Spar restaurant in downtown Olympia.
Daily Olympian photograph, May 1962, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.62.5.24.1.1
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2017