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People probably started hiking on Mount Rainier the day the found out there was a mountain. Here’s a postcard of hikers in the early 1900s on Paradise Glacier (Little Nisqually Glacier). This particular glacier has been receding over the last 100 years. Today it looks quite a bit different from this shot. Photo courtesy of Diane…
The town of Alder used to have a school before is was consolidated with the Eatonville School District. Proof? Here is a class shot (lower grades) from 1948-49, right around the time of the consolidation. The school is still around, but is now the Alder Community Club. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on image to…
Many are familiar with the Stratoliner crash of 1939. Stanley Scurlock and his young son Rod were putting in horses when they noticed a large plane flying over Alder. Large planes weren’t common back then, so they stopped to look up. Rod describes what came next. “The plane started climbing and making more noise. Suddenly,…
Families have enjoyed taking the car up to Mount Rainier since there have been cars. Here are some 1919 shots from the Grout family. “For many years the Grout family from both sides of the mountain had a family reunion on Mt. Rainer. I think these photos are from 1919 as my father was born in May…
This article ran in the Dispatch, April 22, 1954. “Eatonville’s entry in the daffodil parade is seen as it made its way through Puyallup. Pictured on the float are Florence Parrish as Maid Marian; Dick Logston as Robin Hood and Delores Jordan, Friar Truck, and Lois Swanson, skier. Seated are Doug Smith, rifle hunter, and…
Tokens like this one for A. Burleson in Morton, Wash., were used widely in the first half 1900s. “They have been in use (in Idaho) from about 1865 to the present. They were used in lieu of coins—a general store might buy butter and eggs from farmers and pay them either in tokens or at…
This 1903 Mount Rainier postcard is interesting with a native american canoeing across what is a sparsely populated Lake Washington. I say this because I found another version of this postcard on the Tacoma Public Library website. It looks almost identical except for the colorization and minus the native american. Just had to also add a…
Here is a young and handsome Steve Burwash working the fields in Ohop Valley on the Kjelstad farm. “My dad on the horse drawn tedder,” says his daughter Mary Burwash Chalberg. “I think the horse in the picture is old Frank, but I’m not 100 percent sure.” Some of you may already know what a tedder is,…
Seafair was just a few days ago, so this post seems appropriate. I believe in ran in the Dispatch in 1954, when Seafair was only four years old. Check out this incredible Eatonville spirit. Robin Hood and Men Plan to Steal Chest of Seafair Pirates At 5th and Pike in Seattle on Monday, August 2,…
Eatonville Dispatch announcing a Operation Bootstrap BBQ to support Robin Hood Day (ca. 1954). Operation Bootstrap to Sponsor Barbecue on Robin Hood Day The Operation Bootstrap advisory council met Monday evening at the high school in emergency session and voted to put on the barbecue on Robin Hood Day. Another organization had tentatively agreed to do…
In the early 1950s Eatonville was working hard to save their town through what was called Operation Bootstrap. Here are a couple articles that ran in the Dispatch. Robin Hood Dance will Initiate New Redmen Hall Bdlg. Eatonville Redmen are working frantically to get their new hall, across the street from their old building, into…
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