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With the NBA basketball playoffs about to start, it seems appropriate to take a look at Eatonville’s first basketball team. This team played the same year the Titanic went down. Team members were left to right: Coach Mr. Hollingsworth, H. Johnson, C. williams, E. Pravitz, H. Christensen, E. Christensen
After putting a post up on Hazel Williams, I received this from Rich Williams (I think he’d be her grand nephew). Here are a few more images and words on Hazel. “Hazel Williams was born in 1893 and died in 1920. She was the youngest child of Nate and Sarah Elizabeth Van Eaton Williams. Sarah…
In 1912, T.C. Van Eaton sold his store — the town’s first business — and A. Y. Lindsey Co. started selling groceries and men’s furnishings that year. This building sits on Mashell Ave., where there’s currently a parking lot next to Kirk’s Pharmacy. Image courtesy of the Christensen family. Click on image to enlarge.
This is a great shot of the Eatonville’s Ford Motor Company. The tires in the window and the gas pump say it all. Rich Williams fills us in on the background. “The building in this picture is the front of the old Christensen’s department store — the section that Sears isn’t [currently] using and where…
If you wanted to buy a piece of Eatonville in 1917, it was T. C. Van Eaton that you talked to. He homesteaded the timberlands in 1889, which later became the townsite. His real estate office was on Mashell Ave., along side the theater. Photos courtesy of Pat Van Eaton. Click on images to enlarge.…
On the corner of Center and Mashell you’ll find Eatonville Outdoor — a shop for all your outdoor sports needs. A hundred years ago you would have found a jewelry shot owned by the Joseph Hearn. He started his business in 1916. In 1918 Mr. Hearn sold the store to N. H. Larson. The little…
This stunning woman is Hazel Williams, daughter of Nate Williams. Nate was a rough and tumble man who came with T.C. Van Eaton (his brother-in-law) in 1889 to homestead in the new town of Eatonville. Hazel was one of six children, Tom, Charlie, Leon and Clyde and Carrie. She and Carrie both died when they…
In 1952, the year High Noon was hitting theaters and people were buying tickets to watch Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, a smaller phenomenon was hitting Eatonville. The Eatonville Dogwood Garden club was holding it’s first meetings with 45 plant- loving members. The President was Martha Parrish (who turned 99 this February). She says the…
If you were wondering what your child would be learning when they started school in 1912 — this outline would help you out. This was taken straight from the 1912-1913 EHS School Catalog. I think that it’s interesting that science included “hygiene” one day of week through 7th grade and bumped up to 2 days when you…
I purchased the A. U. Fairbairn token off Ebay this week. Tokens were popular in the early 20th century. This one is worth 5 cents and I’m guessing it was used at his Club Cigar Store before 1921, when he sold it to C. A. Tattler for $32,000 (approximately $400,000 today.) A. U. Fairbairn was…
G. B. Ingersoll was the Arrow Lumber of his day. In this 1911 ad that ran in the Eatonville High School Catalogue, he covers it call hardward, furniture, stoves, ranges and building materials. He was involved in town business — attended the county convention, held office of Town Treasurer and more. Unfortunately, Ingersoll experienced a…
This is the log bridge that went into Elbe when it was literally a SINGLE LOG. Look at the supporting log. If you’d like to see another shot of this early bridge, just click HERE. Photo courtesy of the South Pierce County Historical Society. Click in image to enlarge.
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