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This 1929 ad for Atwater-Kent Radios ran in the 1929 Cruiser news. Atwater Kent was the largest manufacturer of radios in the country from 1926 through 1929. In 1929 they were producing a million receivers a year. If you were going to set yourself up with this state-of-the-art technology, Dan Christensen was the guy to get…
Looks like the Williams and Van Eatons were having a picnic back in the early 1900s. Pictured are: • Man to the left against the fence is Charlie Williams and his son Ray. • Girl holding the watermelon is Susie Van Eaton. • Girl to the right of Susie with a big bow in her…
I just won this Fairbairn & Nelson trading token on Ebay. It was good for 25 cents in trade. However, I don’t know anything about the Fairbairn & Nelson company or the use of trading token in Eatonville. All I could find was that A. U. Fairbairn & Co., proprietors opened a business in Eatonville in…
This shot, I believe, is a Weyerhaueser locomotive loaded with timber. Until the Panama Canal opened on August 15, 1914, shipping Douglas fir to the East Coast had been too costly. Soon, Atlantic Coast retailers were clamoring for this new and exceptional Northwest lumber product. Here’s an interesting Weyerhaeuser fact. In the 1930s, the company…
In the early 1900s, before modern logging trucks, getting the logs out of the woods and to the mill was difficult and dangerous. One way to get the log to market was using a nearby river. This Griffith & Graeber Logging shot definitely shows logs being dumped into Ohop Lake. The company logged the ridge all the…
This shot of the La Grande dam, built in 1910, was taken from unique angle to include some farming of the day. i’m only guessing as to the 1915 date. If anyone has a better one, please let me know. Photo courtesy of the Burwash family. Click in image to enlarge.
Parents and students have been picking up and dropping off outside the Eatonville High School since the dawn of automobiles — which wasn’t much before than this 1929 photo was taken. In 1925 an ad proclaimed the Model T “within the means of millions.” It was. The runabout sold for $260 in 1924 ($3,300 in…
If this piece of logging equipment doesn’t look familiar, it’s because you’re more likely to see in a museum than the woods. This drag saw was probably used in the 20s or 30s when they hit their stride. Basically, the engine drags the saw back and forth, as if you were manually sawing down a tree.…
The buildings around Eatonville have housed quite a few different businesses over the decades. Ruth and Waddell’s Confectionery was probably today’s Pour House. The store was gutted in 1923 by a fire that tore through town. I’m guessing the picture was taking around 1926 because that’s when Royal Ice Cream (still in operation today) started delivering products.…
In 1889 a Norwegian named Henry Kjelstad settled in Ohop Valley. He married another Norwegian, Olava and this is a picture of their farm years later. The farm moved through the generations: • Olava and Henry’s son Matt and he and his wife Velma lived at the farm, • They were followed by Matt and Velma’s…
The Pecchia home was built around the 1930s. It’s still standing today, looking just as beautiful as when it went up almost 80 years go. It was Angelo and Regina Pecchia that built and ran the Eatonville Roxy for years. Photos courtesy of Rich Williams and Chris Bivins. Click on images to enlarge.
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