All the ties ever worn in General Conference...

...from 1971 to 1983, with occasional talks missing here and there.

Last October I was watching conference and checking the Bloggernacle at the same time (not a good idea by the way!) I noticed that during the live blogs people would post about the ties the brethren were wearing. I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool to have a collage of every tie worn during general conference?" 

A few months earlier I had spotted this and it had been kicking around in the back of my mind. Then it clicked. That's how I could get all the pics into an easy to view format. There was just the little matter of learning HTML...

Before we get to the viewer, a few provisos:

1. When I started this project my plan was to get every picture saved, up to the most recent conference. I didn't realize how tedious this would be so I made an arbitrary decision to stop where I was and publish what I had. Someday I may finish it out...
2. Some pics for some years are missing because LDS.org simply doesn't have them. Certain sessions will have some talks and not others. It's strange.  
3. I apologize there aren't any tags on the photos. There is a way to do it with a mouse hover but I'm not savvy enough to figure it out.
4. I'm sorry if you are using Internet Explorer. This won't work with that. I've tried Chrome, Safari, iPad, iPhone, etc. They all work. Not sure why IE doesn't. Maybe because it is IE...

I wanted to point out a few interesting things I found while doing this project. Since I don't have tags I will use the orange picture in the middle-right as a reference point (the pic of Pres. Benson being photo bombed). Consider that the south-east corner of temple square. Everything will emanate from that. 

12 Left and 9 Down, just over N. Eldon Tanner's right shoulder, you can see some clown in the tabernacle choir has sneaked (snuck?) a camera into conference. Elder Tanner is conducting a solemn assembly and they are about to sustain Harold B. Lee as the new prophet. I guess this guy wanted some memorabilia.

13 Up and 14 Left: is this the first sister to speak in conference? Back in the day they used to run a welfare session of conference once a year (on Monday?) This is Barbara B. Smith, general relief society president, speaking at the welfare session.

14 Up and 8 Left as well as 3L and 8D you can see a speaker with a mustache. This good brother was the secretary to the 1st presidency. In April of '74 though he shows up clean shaven.

10L and 5D you see a group of people. During the solemn assembly October 1972 the priesthood was organized by 'rank' and seated in cardinal direction (high priests east I think, elders west, etc.) They were voting by quorums. This group of men are the patriarchs. I've always been fascinated by patriarchs and it was cool to see almost all the patriarchs of the church seated together.

7L and 6D you can see Elder McConkie with his arm around Marion G. Romney. The reason is Elder Romney was conducting the October 1980 sustaining of church leaders and some people had just very vocally voted "No!" for President Kimball. It flustered Pres. Romney, bless his heart, so Bruce R. stepped in to help him out. It's quite tender. The video is here.

6L and 2D as well as 9L and 7D show two of the youngest people to speak in conference. Both were during a priesthood session. The first boy is named Michael Nicholas and the second is Matthew Holland. He happens to be Jeffrey R. Holland's boy. And no, he doesn't speak like his father (who does?)

7L and 6U shows Pres. Kimball's secretary reading Pres. Kimball's talk while he looks on. As you know, Pres. Kimball had throat trouble during his presidency.

10U and 11L: If looks could kill! 12U and 9L: J/K!

Now, lets get to the ties! Click on the image and enjoy.