May 20, 2013

1938 Bordeaux Washington Old Growth Logs

Old Growth Fir from Bordeaux2

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, [...]

Old Bordeaux Washington – Mumby, McIver, Costigan

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. [...]

Great Olympia Train Wreck 1959 Revisited

Olympia Train Wreck 1959

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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