The Pavilion at Priest Point Park, Olympia, Wa. Dan Snith was the caretaker of the park. Dan and his family lived on the top story. Robert Grant Smith in a photo below was standing at the top of the long main stairway. Many of the photos of the teenage Pearlee Smith were taken at the park. This swiss chalet style building was originional built as the Olympia Brewing Company's pavilion for the Lewis and Clark Centenial Exposition in Portland Oregon in 1905. It was donated to the City of Olympia for use at Priest Point Park by the brewery's founder, Leopold Schmidt. The Pavilion sat on top a high point of the park overlooking Ellis Cove and Budd Inlet of Puget Sound. It had spectacular views of Olympia, the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, including Mount Rainier. The Pavilion was a popular locale for major social events in the Olympia. It was here that Larry Bray would be bounced on politicians' knees and where he learned,

"If a politician has his mouth open, he's lying."

Larry spend a great deal of time at his grandparents' home. He used to wrestle with a bear cub at the little zoo in the park (until the bear got too big). The park was noted for its peafowl. Eventually, Olympia sold the zoo animals to the Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Wa. and the Pavilion was torn down in the 1960s.