In 1908 a performance of The Whirl O’ the Town was staged at the 1,000-seat Olympia Opera House, as a fund raiser for a new Olympia Woman’s Club home. Its previous clubhouse had burned down in 1907. With a cast numbering about 100, the seats were undoubtedly filled with performers’ relatives and friends.
Unknown photographer, 1908, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1951.4.27
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2020