LDG Day

Artist Geneva Mello presents the “Golden Brassiere Cup” to Susan Borges, who beat out more than 100 competitors to win the honor. Photo courtesy of Bailey Caswell.

“You had to be there!” The boisterous crowd boos and cheers at speakers reading a speech by Susan B. Anthony. At stage: Alane Dashner, Geneva Mello, Mike Riley, Carolyn Ross, David Diskin. Photo courtesy of Nancy Gonzalez St. Clair.

Lisa Meyers Hill and Toni Meyers hold two of the five cakes that were prizes for Miss Sophia’s Cake Waltz. In the 1890s Sophia Gammon had a bakery on W Elm St. in Lodi. Photo courtesy of David Ludin.

Attendees from Lodi and as far as Berkeley, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, and Tracy pack the 1923 building owned by the Woman’s Club of Lodi. Photo courtesy of Bailey Caswell.

Carla Cicerello, Bailey Caswell, Mary Jane East, and Veronica Riley assemble signs painted by local artist Tony Segale. Photo courtesy of Alane Dashner.

McNair High School student Dante Carbajal is the winner of the 2026 Laura DeForce Gordon essay contest. He wrote about “The Struggles of An Immigrant Grandmother,” with his grandmother and mother, Doris Young Lomeli and Elsa Lomeli Carbajal, both of Lomeli Gardens, seated at right. Photo courtesy of Alan St. Clair.

Seth Weidman experiments with a slingshot launch at the Bra Toss. Looking on is Autumn Fisher, who advanced to the final round. Photo courtesy of David Ludin.

Volunteers Sharon Briscoe and Santa Lopez Minatre before the work begins. Santa says that her husband told her to put a skirt on over her bloomers but she was “feeling disobedient and refused.” In the 1880s Mary Tindell had a hat shop on N. Sacramento St. in Lodi. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Ross.

After performing the opening flag ceremony, members of Girl Scout Troop 1877 refresh themselves with A&W root beer floats at Lola’s Saloon. Photo courtesy of Bailey Caswell.