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Look at these handsome guides from 1924. Pictured are (left to right) Joe Grigs, Frank Manning, Nuls Widman, Paul Moser, Heinie Fuhrer, Hans Fuhrer, Tony Bell, Tommy Hermans, Waldo Chamberlain, Wes Langlow and Bill Duggan. This is what The Big Fact Book About Mount Rainier says about guides: Leonard Longmire set himself up as the…
I don’t know much about this photo other than what is written on it — Alder Camp from Water Tank E., August 19, 1942. I’m assuming it’s a logging camp. In the back right of the photo, you can see what I believe is the Alder school, which is no longer standing. You might be saying,…
As you can probably tell from the posts on this blog, I’ve got a thing for Ohop Valley. It’s in no small part because I live there, my parents lived there and my grandparents moved there to farm in the 1940s. I’m always buying postcard on Ebay. But the ones I like best are the…
The King’s Axe game was played between Eatonville and Bethel High Schools. This 1954 article by Don Kitchel reads: King’s Axe, the trophy donated three years ago by John Swanson of Eatonville and played annually by the Cruiser and Bethel football teams, will be at stake at the game between the two teams tomorrow evening…
I’m not sure if any of you remember going to the Triangle for lunch, or in my case ice cream cones. As a treat, we would jump in the car and drive up to get chocolate dipped ice cream cones on a hot summer day. The challenge was to eat before they dripped down our…
This article on National, Washington (near Ashford) ran, I believe in 1981 in the Dispatch. Unfortunately the date is a bit hard to read. But I’ve written the article below to make reading a bit easier. Ghost towns in the Southwest are not that uncommon. Driving through the desert, there are occasionally abandoned buildings along…
I absolutely love reading this issue of the Dispatch — June 23, 1916. It is filled with so much detail about what was going on back then. I invite anyone to click on it, blow it up and read about:• The high school kids having a party at Ohop Bob.• Longmire Springs Hotel is getting the OK to…
Obituaries can give you quite a glimpse back in time. This one for Margaret (Ma) King is one. It reads: Margaret Catherine Case King was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, November 19, 1853, and passed on at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Manning, April 15. She was the daughter…
You might know it as the Tall Timbers Restaurant, but prior to that it was Babe’s Cafe. The food was good and everyone know Babe (Mildred Lister). Babe opened the cafe in 1947 and ran in for many years and this ash tray was one of the promotional pieces. Of course, back then smoking was…
If you were around in the area in the 70s and 80s, then you are familiar with Moore family. The Moore Family Mountain Crafts in Ashford, Washington provided a place for a multitude of talented artisans. You could stop by and find people making pottery, painting and sculpting. Duane “Duke” Moore was well known for…
With the old Christensen’s store, (which also became the Sears store) being currently remodeled into a thrift store, this seemed like a good time to post this shot taken in 1942. Alice Wingrove writes, “My parents bought things they needed for many years from Christensen’s. I remember George Neistadt use to work at the garage…
During the 1950s, after the the Eatonville mill shut down, the town went into kind of a panic. How would it survive with its major industry gone? How could they bring in new businesses? They townspeople didn’t want Eatonville to disappear like other small logging towns. What happened next was called Operation Bootstrap It…
Eatonville To Rainier 