Articles tagged with: 1920
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 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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
