Sunday, November 4, 2018

Elections in the 1950s and 60s - party headquarters, voting booths and machines, results posted at City Hall. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Democratic HQ by Weathers Insurance and Western Union on 2nd Ave, 11-4-1956

Republican HQ, 11-4-1956

Election HQ at the Court House,  11-2-1954
Election workers leave City Hall, 2-11-1958

Mayor and Commissioners results posted at City Hall, 2-11-1958

Mayor and Commissioners results tallied by precincts at City Hall, 2-10-1954. (Council-Manager system began in 1960)

Gilbertson in voting booth at Green Park School,  11-2-1954

County Auditor Gladys Gilman with new voting machine, March 1957

Linda Litchfield waits for mom in voting booth, 11-3-1964

Robert Giordano waits for mom in Green Park School voting booth, 11-8-1966

Polling place in house on Hobson Street, Sept 1958

Voting booths in house on Hobson Street, Sept 1958



Arthur Cox (left) and Preston Hanson (right) with voting machine, 1952