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Early on Eatonville was more about basketball and baseball than football. The gym is the building on the right. The first basket ball team was 1912. This picture was probably taken in the early 1940s and Eatonville. Eighty years later and the grand stand looks pretty much the same. Photo courtesy of the Haynes family…
In 1912 a 34-inch fire bell was bought from the Schwabacher Hardware Store for $31.50. The Council and Mayor Snow held a special meeting in front 0f the fire hall February 9, 1912 to consider plans for a bell tower. It was erected back of the fire hall and painted to match the other buildings.…
Pictured is Pat, Terry, Joan and Tom Van Eaton’s great grandfather and grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fyfe with their daughter Dolly in their home in London. Pat says, “They came to Alder in early 1900’s, got a bad case of culture shock and promptly moved to the Oakland district of Tacoma, where they lived…
This shot of Berlin Ave. was taken in the early 1900s. The building on the far right is under construction, and will soon be a grocery and hardware store. If you look closely you can see a boy standing under the Dean sign. The IOOF building (tall white building on the left) is still standing today.…
In the summer of 1970, hippies descended on Eatonville. It was heralded as the Buffalo Party Convention, but it was far from a political convention. It was a mini rock festival at Buffalo Don Murphy’s farm. To read more on the rock festival, just click HERE. Here are several shots of the event, in living…
I’ll let these maps speak for themselves. The are of the survey maps for the Kjelstad Road (where a lot of the Nisqually Land Trust salmon work is going on today) and the Ohop Valley Rd. (where the Pioneer Farm operates). The surveys were done March 23-30, 1907. Adolph Funke was the County Surveyor and…
You know the Methodist Church is one of the older buildings in Eatonville when it was getting a remodeled in 1915. Here are a few pictures of the church around that era. The first image is a postcard from around 1915 — I assume before the remodel. The second shot is taken in the early…
La Grande used to be home to a commercial nitrogen plant. “The American Nitrogen Products Company started producing sodium nitrate pellets in La Grande in 1916. The product is also known as saltpeter and is used in a number of chemical processes and as a component of explosives and as a fertilizer. The La Grande plant was…
This group of campers was making eating breakfast after a rugged night in the woods in 1989. The boys seemed to have the wood supply in hand. Life seems pretty tough already then, it’s hard to imagine the appeal of camping. Linda Lewis says, “The lady in the far back left is my grandmother Alena(or…
I’m making the jump that this was the Red Men Hall’s basketball team. The appeared to do well during the 1946-47 season in the Pierce County A.A.U. Tri-County League. The Redmen Hall sat where the Landmark’s parking lot is today. Abbi Wonacott writes: “The Red Men Hall, built in 1905, was used by more than…
This early shot of the school shows the: • Gymnasium (on left) built in 1913 • High School (left in the back) built in 1916 • Grade School (on right) built in 1904 Landscaping hasn’t gone in yet, but kids don’t seem to mind. Photo courtesy of Rich Williams and the Haynes family. Click on image to enlarge.
Since it’s the Super Bowl today, it seems fitting to show a few shots about Eatonville’s football team and fields. The first shot is the 1941 Eatonville football team on the field in what looks like a practice. Helmets and pads have come a long way since the 40s. The second shot was taken probably…
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