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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1920s Picnic with the Wenks, Williams and Van Eatons
April 5, 2013 – 9:00 am | One Comment
1920s Picnic with the Wenks, Williams and Van Eatons

Family picnic on a summer day. Except for the style of the clothes and cars, things haven’t changed much since the 1920s.
The woman behind the children in a round hat is Hettie Williams. Others include …

Kids in Hats (early 1900s)
February 22, 2013 – 2:34 am | One Comment
Kids in Hats (early 1900s)

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 …

Eatonville City Hall (ca. 1950s)
February 7, 2013 – 5:59 pm | No Comment
Eatonville City Hall (ca. 1950s)

Here’s an earlier version of Eatonville’s City Hall, as well the Light and Water Dept. and the Police Headquarters. By the 1970s it had been replaced with with the newer version.
Rosemarie Van Cleve was the …

Nellie and Kate Appleby
December 27, 2012 – 6:35 pm | No Comment
Nellie and Kate Appleby

Nellie Appleby, born in Chautaugua County, Kansas, had no idea when this picture was taken that she would eventually marry a man named T. C. Van Eaton. She would be his third wife and they …

Van Eaton Log Cabin School and Girls (1971)
September 4, 2012 – 4:10 pm | No Comment
Van Eaton Log Cabin School and Girls (1971)

This photo of Eatonville’s log cabin school, along with the snippet of article, appeared in a publication in 1971, although I’m not sure which one. The girls in the photo are Andrea Tardiff, Diane Henley, …

Day in the Dispatch – Feb. 9, 1927
August 7, 2012 – 9:23 pm | No Comment
Day in the Dispatch – Feb. 9, 1927

This snippet from the Eatonville Dispatch, February 9, 1927, gives you a feeling for the everyday goings on in the town the. Some things harken back to a simpler time, when who visited was a …

Gunnar Halvarsen and other Eatonville War Vets
May 29, 2012 – 9:29 pm | No Comment
Gunnar Halvarsen and other Eatonville War Vets

On September 12, 1912, Eatonville threw a “Welcome Home” parade for the service men who had returned. “Thirty-three of them fell into line at the upper end of Mashell Avenue at the command of J. …

Williams and Van Eatons Picnic (early 1900s)
November 29, 2011 – 8:59 pm | 2 Comments
Williams and Van Eatons Picnic (early 1900s)

Looks like the Williams and Van Eatons were having a picnic back in the early 1900s.
Pictured are:
• Man to the left against the fence is Charlie Williams and his son Ray.
• Girl holding the watermelon …

Eatonville Theater (1917)
November 14, 2011 – 11:26 pm | One Comment
Eatonville Theater (1917)

The first theater was built by Frank Van Eaton in 1917 (I’ve also heard 1915). The building still stands on Mashell Ave., across from the visitor’s center. However, the “boardwalk” has been long since replaced …

Eatonville theater — from Silent films to Star Wars
November 3, 2011 – 9:00 am | 6 Comments
Eatonville theater — from Silent films to Star Wars

In 1892, Angelo Pecchia was born a farmer’s son in Italy. No one could have guessed he’d open theaters in the United States — especially since the first motion picture camera was yet to be invented.
Coming …