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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When Eatonville Bank was New (ca. 1924)
April 2, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
When Eatonville Bank was New (ca. 1924)

The Eatonville Bank has been standing — and looking pretty much the same — for years. Here’s a shot of the bank in it’s younger years, before Marshell Ave. was paved. On the left is …

Leslie Kipper & Co.
February 27, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Leslie Kipper & Co.

The Kipper Ford garage was located on Mashell Ave.
The Kipper garage employee was part of the crew that went after the robbers in the 1922 bank robbery.
Check out what appear to be an extremely early …

Pete Peterson’s Shoe Repair (ca. 1930s)
February 22, 2013 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments
Pete Peterson’s Shoe Repair (ca. 1930s)

Pete Peterson ran a show repair shop in Eatonville. By the looks of this picture he did a lot of work with boots, which is not surprising considering all the loggers, famers and mill workers …

Inside the Herron Jewelry Store
February 12, 2013 – 6:32 pm | No Comment
Inside the Herron Jewelry Store

Where the Eatonville Outdoor sits today, on the corner of Center and Mashell, was once the Herron Jewelry stop. Both H. L. Herron and Wayne Herron served as town councilmen sometime between 1909 and 1954 and …

Eatonville Moves from Horses to Cars 1914 (Mashell Ave.)
January 29, 2013 – 9:00 am | 4 Comments
Eatonville Moves from Horses to Cars 1914 (Mashell Ave.)

The move from horses to cars didn’t happen overnight. You can see from this picture of Mashell Avenue during the winter of 1914.
Per Pat Van Eaton, this pictures shows a big time of change for Eatonville. …

Mashell Telephone Exchange
January 28, 2013 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Mashell Telephone Exchange

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 …

Mashell Avenue and Red Man Hall (ca. 1910)
January 11, 2013 – 10:02 pm | No Comment
Mashell Avenue and Red Man Hall (ca. 1910)

This is a muddy photo of a muddy Mashell Ave. in the early 1900s. The Methodist Churh, which is still standing today is on the left. The Red Men Hall is on the right.
“The Nisqually …

Snow on Mashell (ca. 1905)
December 19, 2012 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Snow on Mashell (ca. 1905)

It the first snowfall of the season tonight, so this picture seemed fitting — Mashell Avenue around 1905 during a snow. Even a local dog was out enjoying things.
I believe the shot was taken at …

Farmer Parked Outside the Red and White (ca. 1929)
September 27, 2012 – 4:14 pm | 4 Comments
Farmer Parked Outside the Red and White (ca. 1929)

A hay truck parked outside the Red and White store on Mashell Ave. in 1929 wasn’t an uncommon sight.
During the 1920s farmers stacked hay loose, versus in bales like today. Before combustion engines, hay was cut …

Eatonville’s Early Dentist — Dr. David B. Cook
September 21, 2012 – 1:45 pm | No Comment
Eatonville’s Early Dentist — Dr. David B. Cook

Don Cook just told me that his father, Dr. David B. Cook was a dentist for The Bridge Clinic. That’s him, third from the right.

Don says, “He traveled rural Pierce County with a portable foot operated …