Holly Ryan, owner of The Shady Lady and president of the Centralia Downtown Festivals Association, gives a tour of The Shady Lady Bordello Museum in Centralia on Saturday, June 3. The museum was one of four Centralia museums featured in the Centralia Downtown Festival Association’s Museums, Murals & Moonshine guided walking tour event, which sought to highlight Centralia’s history. The event had a good turnout, Ryan said.
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America’s Team Museum curator Peter Lahmann sits atop a 1941 Volugrapho Aeromoto Italian-German paratrooper scooter featured in the museum, located at 622 N. Tower Ave. in Centralia, during the Museums, Murals & Moonshine event on Saturday, June 3.
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Centralia Downtown Festivals Association board member Flossie Haymenn and great-grandson Jace Simpson pose for a photo at the Museums, Murals & Moonshine check-in spot in Centralia on Saturday, June 3.
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King Agricultural Museum, located at 213 E. Maple St. in Centralia, was one of four Centralia museums featured in the Centralia Downtown Festival Association’s Museums, Murals & Moonshine guided walking tour event on Saturday, June 3.
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The Centralia Downtown Association held its Museums, Murals & Moonshine event on Saturday, June 3, which featured a guided walking tour of Centralia’s historic murals, information on Centralia’s “legacy of the moonshine makers, bootleggers and taverns,” and day passes to four locally-owned Centralia museums.
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Visitors examine exhibits at the George and Mary Jane Washington Museum, located at 214 N. Tower Ave., during the Museums, Murals & Moonshine guided walking tour event on Saturday, June 3.
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