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“Grooving at the Buffalo Party” is available for purchase from photographer Tore Ofteness. Just click HERE. This shot is a little racier than most of the shots on this site, but it is a good depiction of the Eatonville Rock Festival. Click on image to enlarge.
Veora Rotter was postmaster at the Alder, Wash. post office from June 1, 1948 to August 4, 1958 and then again in 1966. “A reporter on a Tacoma newspaper, when describing the town of Alder when it was about to move ahead of the advancing water, used flowery language. His paragraph from the Tacoma Sunday…
Mashell has changed some over the the last 40+ years, but not that much. Photos courtesy of EatonvilleNews.net & Pat Van Eaton. Click on images to enlarge.
Clara (Fiander) Jensen made quite the impact on the rural community. She was born in 1883 and raised in the Swan Lake area on the family farm. She lived out her life in the small community. She was an attractive women, and could hunt cats too. Sunset Magazine published a story in 1923 about her skills…
This is a big year for Eatonville High School. It marks the 100th high school graduation. The 1914 class was a particularly small one — two students — Ed Christensen and Susan Van Eaton. There is no picture of the two together because Ed and Susan refused to have photos taken together because they thought it would…
This article ran in Western Farmer in 1964, and is still in publication today. For those of you who don’t want to download the article to read it, here it is: Fryers prosper in old sawmill The Eatonville, Wash., sawmill was once the site of a booming industry. Today its sturdy old buildings show new…
The Alder Dam was built twice — first in 1912 and then again in 1945. Here’s a shot of the Alder Dam of 1912, and the one you are more familiar with. Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton and Tacoma Public Utilities. Click on images to enlarge.
Community Day at Eatonville has always included a May Day celebration and a May Day court. Here’s a glimpse at the 1952 May Day Court and the pretty impressive backdrop. Court, top row left: Principal Bill Tone principal, Tom Lonn, Gary Allison, ?, Ernie Jones, Queen Grace, King Charles Hale, ?, Roy Swanson, Dick Logston,…
Here’s another picture from the 1970 Buffalo Party Convention, but more commonly referred to as the Eatonville Rock Festival. It was held at Buffalo Don Murphy’s Flying M Ranch east of town. Thank you Jeff Morrison for sharing. Click on image to enlarge.
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