I love the Washington State Digital Archives! I was looking for something else in the archives tonight and, as always, I did a search for the name Bordeaux. This time, I was searching in photos and found this one. The caption reads: *”Photograph of three men holding guns and dressed in their Sunday attire, 1916. [...]
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Olympia Depot Demolished By Runaway Train It was 51 years ago today that 12 of 15 boxcars full of plywood began their crew-less runaway journey from just south of Tumwater, Washington to the city of Olympia where they crashed into the Union Pacific Railroad depot, killing one man and injuring about twenty others. I was [...]
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Thurston County Motorcycle History Years ago I put together a shadow box for my parents of Yates memorabilia that included WWI and WWII medals for my grandfather Will Yates and my dad, William Gale Yates respectively. In that shadow box was included a little bit of Olympia Motorcycle Club history. My dad isn’t in the [...]
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