1974 – Princess Royal Ball V
Where: The Spring Palace [East Side Commerce Building] 615 SE Alder
Date: May 5, 1974
Theme: Fabulous Flapper Follies!
Crowned: Princess Candi Wrapper V
Ad below Left is from NW Gay Review, May 1974. Ad below Right Miss Terry running for Crown Princess V put an ad in NW Gay Review May 1974
1974 Coronation of Empress
Where: Grand Ballroom – Hilton Hotel
Date: November 10, 1974
Theme: “Many Happy Returns to “ATLANTIS”
Crowned: Elsa Daniels Rose Empress XVII
In the November 1974 issue of the Northwest Gay Review, Northwest Calendar PORTLAND – “Many Happy Returns to “ATLANTIS” Coronation ’75 Grand Ballroom – Hilton Hotel Doors open 6:00 pm Donation”
2003 Chuck Palahniuk mentioned Randy in his book Fugitives and Refugees on page 37 Quests: Adventures to Hunt Down In 1974, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Randy Shilts was a student at the University of Oregon when he won the national William Randolph Hearst Award for a newspaper article he’d written about the court. [Imperial Rose Court of Portland]. Article is published in the Oregon Daily Emerald November 22, 1974, as well as the Eugene Register Guard Feb 9, 1975. Here is a portion of it from the Oregon Daily Emerald.
