Red & White Store
May 14, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment

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 …

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Griffith & Greaber Logging (ca. 1923)
May 8, 2013 – 3:42 pm | No Comment
Griffith & Greaber Logging (ca. 1923)

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 …

Charley Boettcher’s Pond
March 22, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Charley Boettcher’s Pond

Charley Boettcher’s pond was a fun swimming hole, but was originally mill pond. They got a permit to build it. It had a concrete spill way and an earth dam.
“Chas. Boettcher, Glen Parks and Frank Shepherd …

EHS Girls Basketball Team (1920)
March 13, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
EHS Girls Basketball Team (1920)

The 1920 Eatonville High School girls’ basketball team posed outside the high school for this shot.
Left to right: Ida Hedborg, Louise Hekel, Anna Hats, Ann Erickson, Emma Coffman and Nettie Conrad.
Photo courtesy of Carl Linden.
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Eatonville Lumber Co. Locomotive
March 11, 2013 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments
Eatonville Lumber Co. Locomotive

The Eatonville Lumber Company was in operation until the 1950s and a major employer of the town.  Here is one of the company’s locomotives taking trees from the nearby forests.
Pat Van Eaton says (below), “The …

Canyada Lodge Ad (ca. 1920)
March 8, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Canyada Lodge Ad (ca. 1920)

The Canyada Lodge in La Grande offered a top notch getaway for those headed up to the Rainier National Park in the early 1900s.
This advertisement is geared to get your mouth watering: “We boast of …

Early Dispatch (ca. 1920)
February 20, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Early Dispatch (ca. 1920)

The Eatonville Dispatch got its start in 1916. The press was possibly a 1908 Chandler & Price Gordon press.
Hard Work
There’s a video on YouTube that shows hand typesetting and printing in 1947. Within minutes you understand what …

EHS Champion basketball team (1920-21)
January 5, 2013 – 9:46 pm | 2 Comments
EHS Champion basketball team (1920-21)

It seems like almost every picture of the early Eatonville High School basketball teams seems to be of a championship team. These players rocked in the house during the 1920-21 season and came away as …

Busses from Ashford to Rainier
July 28, 2012 – 4:07 pm | No Comment
Busses from Ashford to Rainier

Pictured here are the first busses that ran from the Tacoma Eastern Depot in Ashford to Mt. Rainier.
People could also get a good look at the mountain from the air too. The first airplane flights …

Eatonville Basketball Champions (1920-21)
May 24, 2012 – 4:48 pm | No Comment
Eatonville Basketball Champions (1920-21)

It wouldn’t be until 1923 when Eatonville had the champion basketball team that made headlines and put Eatonville on the map. But in 1920-21, the team was honing its skills. This group of guys were …

N.P. Christensen and Maren Pederson (early settlers)
May 9, 2012 – 10:11 pm | One Comment
N.P. Christensen and Maren Pederson (early settlers)

Guest blogger Bob Walter gives us some background on Eatonville’s early settlers, Pete and Maren Christensen.
N.P. (Nels “Pete”) Christensen and Maren Pedersen, both born in Denmark, met in the United States and were married in …