RHS Newsletter January 2014

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Tree soldiers like the men seen in the photo above were deployed

during the Great Depression to build park infrastructure and plant trees

as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Please join us as historian

Janet Oakley, in a presentation sponsored by Humanities Washington,

describes their contributions in our state.The young men, including many from the East Coast, were best

known for projects at Mount Rainier and Mount Baker, particularly the ski

jump and warming hut at the latter. (For more about Oakleys research,

see Page 4 of this newsletter issue.)

(Photo courtesy of Fort Lewis District CCC)

Every town has a history. Discover ours. JANUARY2014

THEREDMONDRECORDERREDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2014VOL. 16

NO. 1

Every town has a history. Discover ours.

UPCOMINGSATURDAYSPEAKERSERIESSaturday, January 11, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80th Street

(Additional free parking next door at Redmond Elementary School)

TREEARMY: JOBS, PARKS& THEDEPRESSION


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JANUARY2014 Every town has a history. Discover ours.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Chris Himes President

Judy Lang Senior Vice-President

Joe Townsend Vice-President FinanceJohn Phillips Vice-President CollectionsMary Hanson Secretary

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Janice LeVeck

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Our neighbors in Sammamish,especially historian Phil Dougherty,have been busy documenting theirheritage at historylink.org, the freewebsite for Washington state history.Typing Sammamish in the search eld

turns up fascinating stories like these:

One of the worlds largest

taxidermy operations was run bythe Klineburgerbrothers, whoalso recreated a Wild West townon their property.

Weber Point was the rst

Sammamish, though it neverincorporated as a town. Itspopulation peaked at around fty in

the 1910s and it had its own railwaystop.

Alexanders Beach Resort was

the largest of the resorts on LakeSammamish and operated from1917-1985.

Sammamish even has someHollywood trivia: Clint Eastwood

worked as a lifeguard at Beaver Lakein 1953. Its tougher to nd that article,

you have to search by his name, butthe reward is a story about his Seattleties and two photos of the young buck.


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Photos donated last year by the Tolt Historical Society shed light onB Lumber Industries, a Redmond-area company for which we had noprevious documentation. Turns out it was located on Redmond-Fall CityRoad, across from Alcott Elementary School. It operated from 1953-65,

according to records provided by logging historian Eric Erickson.

I B B L M H

Society member DuaneIsackson, who owns the last

local mill, said the B stoodfor the owner Burlingame.

His son Don was in school at

the time I was. Now passed,

he had an older sister who

married Archie Cooks son

Norman. We bought studs

from them and resold to our

customers, Duane added.My cousin George Isackson

worked for the B mill from its

inception to the end.

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For historian Janet Oakley, our January speaker, researching themen of the Civilian Conservation Corps was a journey that started inher childhood. When I was a girl, Oakley says in a video about herresearch, I always listened to my mom tell stories about the CCC boysin Idaho This led to a lifelong, actually decades long, search forcamps, their stories and their projects in Washington state. Her moms stories focused on the boys from New Joisey who livedin a rugged camp near her uncles ranch north of Boise. She told meabout these lonely boys they really impressed her, Oakley says ofher mom. One boy was a musician and out of work. Another kid looking

at cows thought they were moose. They really stayed with me. Now living in Bellingham and associated with the Skagit CountyHistorical Museum, Oakley began researching the CCCs work inWashington and eventually met several CCC veterans who shared theirstories. One of the favorites is of being thrown into the Nooksack Riveras initiation, she notes.

That research led toOakleys 2011 novel TreeSoldier. In it, an unemployedyoung man joins the CCCto escape his past and nds

himself in the Pacic Northwest.

The cover describes it as anovel about Love, Forgiveness

and the Great Depression. The CCC, created byPresident Roosevelt to provide

jobs for millions, hired menbetween the ages of 17-23.They signed up for at least sixmonths and got shelter, food,clothing and a $30 stipend per

stint$25 of which had to besent home to their families.

The video interview of Oakley is available at vimeo.com/47272200and a written interview is online at sparkmag.org. Once there, type treearmy in the search eld to pull up the article.

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Heritage displays inside VALA Eastside art studio, above and below. (Photos courtesy of Miguel Llanos)


SNHERITAGEDISPLAYS

OVERTHEHOLIDAYS

The Societyhad numerous photos,artifacts and its ve

Centennial banners ondisplay at the holidayart studio operated

by VALA Eastside inDecember.

Our thanks to VALA

and the Redmond TownCenter, which donatedthe space at the formerBorders bookstore.

Keep an eye openfor future heritage &art displays with VALA

and the Town Centerwe hope to grow thatpartnership!

VALA EASTSIDEATREDMONDTOWNCENTER

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A century ago, horses

provided Redmondresidents not onlytransportation but alsoplenty of fun. The lateRoy Lampaert, in a 1993biography for the Society,talked about growing upduring those days in the

early 1900s. The Lampaertshad a cattle ranch on landthat today includes the Cityof Redmond campus. The full interview ison our websitein thesearch eld type Lampaert

Remembers Redmond

and below are a fewexcerpts about horsingaround: I had a horse to ridesince I was nine years old We would ride all over, go swimming, ridethe horses in the river and the creek. One morning my mother woke me and said my father had bought mea horse. It was a bald-faced mare named Nellie. It cost $5 in those days. Isure had a good time on that horse. I rode her all over, bareback.remember riding all the way across Novelty Hill to the Snoqualmie Valley.

There were only 400 people in Redmond in those days. There wasno herd law. The cows were running at large, horses were running atlarge. In the evening you would hear people calling their cows to comehome and get milked. My dad was a great horseman. He always used teams of horses,broke horses, bought horses to sell. I can remember him buying horses tosell to the Seattle Police Department ... He sold a lot of horses to the Cityof Seattle, and delivered them to their barns in Kent by driving them from

Redmond, down the highway loose. Imagine trying that today! At times my dad would ride horseback over Novelty Hill to the

Snoqualmie Valley accompanied by his dog, Jack. He went to buylivestock, and so forth. If he couldnt get home, he would send a notewith the dog. He would just fasten a note to the dogs collar and he wouldcome home with a note for my mother.

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Roy Lampaert, left, and Lloyd Ottinion the Lampaert ranch in 1922.

(Photo courtesy of Roy Lampaert Collection.)


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She will be remembered and missed by her many longtimefriends, said Chris. Her erce dedication to Redmond and her love of

the environment, parks and horse trails brought her into close contact

with the City, County and the State of Washington, where she workedtirelessly to better the community. Chris said she rst met Barbara in 1975 at a committee meeting

working on the Development Guide for Redmond .... Her intelligence andbrilliant mind never ceased to amaze me. She was also instrumental in getting the state Department ofTransportation to install special trafc signals on Redmond-Woodinville

Road and Avondale so horse riders did not have to dismount. As I said

she was one amazing woman. Barbaras life included serving as an American Red Cross nurse

in England during World War II and thats where she met her futurehusband, Dr. Paul Beeson. They had been married 61 years when hepassed in 2006.

A wonderful tribute to Barbara by her family notes that the Beesons

retired in Redmond in 1974. Paul then supported his activist wife asshe established herself as a relentless and formidable advocate forpreservation of parks, horse trails and open space as Redmond .... The

local newspaper called Barbara Beeson the Redmond Warrior.She would just tell the facts, name names, call the shots and let the

chips fall where they may, Chris said in the tribute. She just pushed theenvelope. I loved her for it.

Search our website for Barbara Beeson to read the full tribute.

One of our lifetimemembers and a trueRedmond personality,Barbara Beesonpassed away onOctober 28 at the ageof 96. Though she hadmoved to Exeter, NewHampshire, Barbara

had close friends inRedmond, amongthem Society PresidentChris Himes.

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Barbara Beeson, above, at our ofce in 2001, was a Society

volunteer before moving to New Hampshire. (Photo by Nao Hardy)


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HUGEHISTORICALTHANKYOUS

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Lillian Garland, Evelyn Gilbert, Susanne Halzlip,Roxieand JohnPhillips, Patsy Rosenbachand James Wilhoitfor donating to theSociety in honor the memory of our late co-founder Margaret Evers Wiese.

Chris Himesfor donating to the Society in memory of Barbara Beeson.

Fredand Fran Strayfor serving as greeters at the November program,and Tom Hansenand Fernando Ramosfor taking care of chairs.

Larry Kreisman, our November speaker, for donating copies of hisbooks Made To LastHistoric Preservation in Seattle and King Countyand The Stimson Legacy: Architecture in the Urban West. By the way,the video of his presentation is online at the City of Seattles websiteseattlechannel.org. Once there, type Kreisman in the search eld.

HELPUSPRESERVETHETEENCANTEEN

Society member Tom Hansenis spearheading an effort to record ahistory of the Teen Canteen, Redmonds hangout for kids in the 1940sand 50s. Hell be making a pitch at the Societys January program forfolks to dig up photos and stories, but feel free to send any leads to theSociety ofce at 425.885.2919or [email protected]. The Canteen was hosted at the Oddfellows Hall, todays RedmondsBar & Grill, and included dancing, billiards and ping pong. It was afavorite place for us kids to hang out on Fridays, recalls Society Vice

President Judy Lang. There probably wasnt a kid in Redmond whodidnt attend.

Local lore about actor Gary Cooper having once visited RedmondsHappy Valley resurfaced recently when King County designated the

former Walter Cooper Dairy Farm as a historic landmark at the newowners request.

The story goes he was Walts nephew and visited circa 1930. But is ittrue? If anyone has conrmationa photo or news clipping, eye-witness

statementplease contact [email protected] the Society ofceat 425.885.2919.

FACTORFICTION:DIDGARYCOOPERVISITHAPPYVALLEY?

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PATTI SIMPSON WARD DORISJEAN COLVIN PAT DUGAN

OUR TOWN

History of Redmond by Nancy Way

VIEW OF HISTORY DVD

This painting of Marymoor Park, Flying Kites at the Clise

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OURRHS LIFETIMEMEMBERS

Eric Anderson

John Anderson

Barbara Neal BeesonBrad Best

Marjorie Stensland

Costello

John CouchLiz Carlson Coward

Tony Emmanuel

Frank Garbarino

Edward L. Hagen

Lucille B. Hansen-

BellingsWayne Hansen

Jerry Hardy

Naomi HardyChris Himes

Rosemarie Ives

Cory de Jong

Patricia Weiss Jovag

Barbara Weiss Joyce

Glenn LampaertRoy Lampaert

Allen Lang

Judy Aries Lang

Miguel Llanos

Jon Magnussen

Clare Amo Marr

Daryl Martin

Allison Reed Morris

John Phillips

Roxie Phillips

Dale Potter

Jo Ann Potter

Charles Reed

Frances Spray Reed

Vivian Robinson

Laurie Rockenbeck

Margy Rockenbeck

William RockenbeckBeryl Standley

John Stilin

Sherry Stilin

Fred SpringsteelFred Stray

Doris Bauer Schaible

Herb Swanson

Doris Townsend

Roger Trepanier

Arlyn VallenePatti Simpson Ward

Don Watts

Rose WeissJoanne Westlund

Margaret Evers Wiese

James Windle

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LIFETIMERSLISTGROWSLONGER Roger Trepanierand Cory de Jongrecently

became lifetimersinvesting in the Societysmission to preserve and share Redmonds history.Both have deep roots here. Cory owns Cory de Jong & Son Sawdust &Shavings, having started his career there at age10 in 1950! I can proudly say that I have lived all 74years of my life in Redmond, said Cory. I grew upon Avondale Road and I now reside just a half a mile

from where my parents old home was located. Roger moved to Redmond from New York City in1969 and served three terms on the Redmond CityCouncil in the 1970s and 80s. He later chaired thecitizens campaign for a $25 million bond issue thatfunded Redmonds Senior Center and Public Safetybuildings. A former executive of Farmers Insurance Group,

hes a strong advocate of volunteerism and hasserved on many boards. Presently, Roger is on theadvisory committee of the Redmond Senior Center,where his wife Patti also volunteers.Cory de Jong

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