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iPentimento | 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Disasters

March 7, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

Seattle earthquake aftermath 1965 I barely missed my first disaster by a year. That was the 1949 earthquake here in western Washington. Well, maybe I didn’t miss it completely since my mom was probably pregnant with me at the time. Since I was conceived most likely in January of 1950 and the state was [...]

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Radio & Television

February 10, 2011 By Carol Wilkerson

Kinsey Photo Train Engines Hoquiam-Polson

There wasn’t much to do in the fall and winter months where I grew up here in western Washington, so we watched a lot of TV. My viewing kind of evolved as television itself did, with local stations airing shows like Brakeman Bill, Captain Puget, J P Patches. Kinsey Photo #14 – Big Timber [...]

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1938 Bordeaux Washington Old Growth Logs

October 29, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

I found a couple additional Bordeaux – Mason County Logging Photos this week and want to share them with those of you following the history of Bordeaux, Washington on this blog. My dad (William Gale Yates) would probably be able to tell you who the man is in this photo, but I’m sorry to say, [...]

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Old Bordeaux Washington – Mumby, McIver, Costigan

May 5, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

1916 Bordeaux, WA - Mumby, McIver, Costigan

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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Great Olympia Train Wreck 1959 Revisited

March 13, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

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 [...]