The Red and White store used to be a familiar feature on Mashell Ave. For years you’d walk in and find Keith Malcom and Jesse Dawkins ready to serve you.
The building is no longer standing, and …

Logging trucks have come a long way. Griffith and Graeber logging were getting huge logs out of the woods with what looks like an early 1920s Kelly truck. From this photo, it looks like the tree …

Taken out on the Jensen family farm, Mae Ladinne Duffy, better known as Chick, is feeding Tiny the house. Behind her is the barn on the rights and a couple out buildings.
Chick later married Zeke McConnell.
Photo …

I’ve always wondered what Alder looked like before the dam and the town was moved. Thanks to Randy Stewart, we have a photo of the small town. And best of all, the buildings are easy …

Check these young folks out — sporting some interesting hats.
Interesting fact, top hats where also known beaver hats, high hats, silk hats, cylinder hats, chimney pots hat or stove pipe hats and sometimes just called toppers. 

Front – Left to Right: Frank …

Carter Street hasn’t changed much over the last 30+ years. The cars do more changing than the buildings.
Photo courtesy of Ruthie Williams.
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Ohop Valley is covered in snow and Mount Rainier is just behind the clouds.
Walking through the valley in 2010 I was snapping pictures. If I had been a farmer just a few decades ago I …

Charlie (Charles) Beottcher was well known as a logger in the Alder area. Here’s shot of him moving logs. At the base of the pole you can see where he (or someone) has been splitting. …

N. P. Christensen b0ught the  Mashell Telephone Exchange from Dye and Biggs in 1912. Despite the fact that Mashell Ave. is dirt, this picture looks like it could have been taken yesterday.
It wasn’t quite the …

Here we see bricks being produced at Clay City in the early 1900s.
This shot was probably taken shortly after 1907 when The Far West Lumber Company formed the Far West Clay Company and opened the Clay …