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It’s hard to imagine that archery used to be a big deal in Eatonville, but it was. Archery was also considered a centerpiece to Operation Bootstrap. This (partial) piece ran in the Dispatch April 26, 1954. Archery Range Will be Ready for Weekend A public archery range will be operating before the end of this…
Thank you Steve Burwash for sharing this great find—a 1923 calendar from Christensen’s Department Store. (This is the same year Transcontinental airmail service begins and Elmer Rice’s “Adding Machine” premieres in NYC.) Here’s a shot too of what the store looked like back then. The falls in the calendar are Wild Cat Falls. It’s still a popular…
Here are some great shots taken of Steve Burwash working on the Burwash/Kjelstad farm around 1970. The photos were taken by Steve’s son Martin, who also had a farm for a while in Ohop Valley. To see more of Martin’s photographs, just click HERE to link to his Rambling West site. Photos courtesy of Martin Burwash. Click on…
A glimpse of Ohop Valley and the Burwash/Kjelstad farm around 1970. This was taken in the winter when the creek floods. This photo was taken by Martin Burwash. If you’d like to see more of his work . . . and the farm . . . just click HERE. The Kjelstad farm was one of…
Thank you Josie Johnston for pointing out the link to the Original Announcement of the 1970 Eatonville Rock Festival, aka the First Annual Buffalo Party Convention and Pig Roast. Check out the guests, the speakers, the music, and the $5.00 admission. The Eatonville rock festival never turned into an annual event, but the event that…
In the 1930s the Kjelstad farm in Ohop Valley ran on wood. It would take one very large tree to heat the main house, a smaller house and several chicken houses for a year. This is a shot of Steve Burwash (now 92) helping Matt Kjelstad split up a big tree near their farm. Check out…
In the early 1900s, not too far off Highway 7, around 340th where the fire station now stands, sat the Weyerhaeuser Church. It’s long gone now, but two individuals have memories of the little church. Scott Coon: [It was] across the Hwy. from the old Weyerhaeuser school, between the general store and Rasmuussen’s dairy. It…
This postcard, probably from the 1950s, shows that hiking to the top of Pinnacle Peak at Mount Rainier National Park has been popular for decades. It reminds me a bit of the Preikestolen in Norway. Agree? Image courtesy of Gloria Manning. Click on image to enlarge. Preikestolen, Norway
Meet Pete Peterson‘s children . . . and Torger Peterson’s grandchildren. “On the top (the oldest) is Theodore Peterson. Helen Peterson is on his right and Carleton Peterson is on his left. Pearl Peterson is the girl in the center and the baby is Alice Peterson, my mother,” says Linda Lewis. Linda says her mother was…
I was sitting out by the Mill Pond in Eatonville yesterday. It was beautiful and a little hard to imagine the working site for Eatonville Lumber Company that it once was. For those of you who also have a hard time imaging it, here is a shot of now (2014) and then (ca. 1930). Photos courtesy…
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