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Recognize these two lover birds? It’s Pat and Edwina Van Eaton at an NROTC (Naval Reserver Officers Training Corps) dance in 1960. Dance on my friends! Photo courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on image to enlarge.
This was taken from the Tacoma News Tribune. Henry Atlee Dyson (Hank) Atlee was born in Custer, WA on February 6, 1927, and passed away at his home in Eatonville, Wash., at the age of 85 on May 30, 2012. He was born to parents Jacob and Eunice Dyson. He was older than his twin…
Minnie Boettcher was one of Carl Boettcher’s daughter. Carl and his family (wife and six children) arrived in Alder in 1895. Minnie was tough and smart. Is was she that treated her brother Willie’s serious ax wound. (Click HERE for details.) The family hacked a ranch out of the wilderness and their heirs are still…
Around 1912 La Grande became known in Ripley’s Believe it or Not as the “town without a chimney.” They were heated and lit by Tacoma Power and Light. (To read and see more pictures of these homes, click HERE.) Neal Purdy provided a list of who was living in those homes in 1957, as well…
It reads like a scene out of Deadwood. On September 3, 1901, the Tacoma Daily Ledger reported that Charles F. Franklin, a peaceable and inoffensive farmer, had been gunned downed by Eatonville blacksmith Alexander Vance. Vance was known as a bully and the only man in the community who carried firearms. Besides being a blacksmith,…
The Eatonville Red and White stood on Mashell Ave., where there’s now a parking lot for Kirk’s Pharmacy. This ad for the store ran in a 1948 EHS annual. It was a little easier to remember the phone numbers back then. Image courtesy of Louie Mettler and Pat Van Eaton. Click on images to enlarge.…
Here is another picture of the Kruse family suspension bridge once spanning the Nisqually River near La Grande. In this shot you can see two men on the bridge and one taking hid hat off to look over the side. I’m not sure it would be my hat I’d be worried about losing. For more…
These pages were ripped straight from the Eationville High School 1959 yearbook. The senior class football stars of ’59 were: • Bill Fitzer • Aron Langberg • Jim Mettler • Jess Dawkins • Ray Parrish • Dale Rahier • Harold Noe • Dave Ratko • Pat Van Eaton • Foster Bonville • Marvin Snell • Dave…
I’m forever thankful that someone took time to grab these shots of the Griffith & Graeber Logging Company. In this first picture not only do you get to see the guys at the camp, and the one-tree load hauled out in February, 1923, but you can also see the steam donkey at work in background.…
Eatonville had two new organizations form in 1921. The first was a branch of the Washington Sportsmen’s Association with Dr. A. W. Bridge as president and G. B. Ingersoll as secretary and treasure. Thirty-five members signed up. The goal of the association was to better protect game and an game fish, to establish a base…
On September 12, 1912, Eatonville threw a “Welcome Home” parade for the service men who had returned. “Thirty-three of them fell into line at the upper end of Mashell Avenue at the command of J. H. Cosper, formerly First Lieutenant in the 7th Infantry, and with the Starts and Stripes in the lead, paraded to…
Eatonville To Rainier 