Rhs Newsletter 03 2006

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MARCH 2006 NEWSLETTER

REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

VOLUME 8, NUMBER 3

16600 NE 80th Street, Room 106 Redmond, WA 98052 ~ Tel 425.885.2919

OUR MISSION: To Discover, Recover, Share and Celebrate Redmond’s History

website ~www.redmondhistory.org e-mail ~ [email protected]

HISTORY IS HAPPENING IN REDMOND!

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gg Ranching in Happy Valley

resident’s Corner

There was a time when chickens outnumbered

people in Redmond, but I doubt this is true today. Our city’s population is somewhere around 47,600 and there are no chickens in sight. In the book, “Our Town Redmond,” published by the Marymoor Museum in 1989, Nancy Way writes that “the community could claim roughly a dozen poultry farms and some 60,000 chickens.” After a couple of telephone calls ~ one to Eileen McCoskrie and one to Doris Landvatter ~ I have some chicken history to write about. In 1942 Bill Landvatter came to Redmond and bought the Golden Egg Farm from Otto Wiedermann. He married Doris in 1944 and she joined him in a career of chicken, eggs and raising a family of four children, Kathy, Gary, Rick and Jeff, and 15,000 chickens. She told me the story of the time back in the 1950s when Bill got pneumonia, so she and Eileen M. had to take over Bill’s job of delivering eggs throughout Seattle, driving the 1-ton truck. When it came time to take the chickens to market the neighborhood children would join in by helping carry the chickens to the truck, two in each hand. It must have been lots of fun. I remember my Grandma and her chickens and the excitement when it came time for chicken dinner. Catching the chicken or rooster and then the chopping block. I won’t go into the details, but it is not a sight you would see today around our neighborhoods. There were other chicken farmers in the Redmond area, among them Bill and Faye Sween who had a farm up on the Plateau. Leo and Lena Schaller and

Esther Allison Hutchins, who donated this 1938 photo, writes: “Along the Red Brick Road in Happy Valley, Ender and Ender’s and Otto Wiedeman’s egg ranches were sideby-side at the end of the straightaway, before the curves that join the Fall City Highway. I lived in the cabin with my parents in 1940 when I was a junior at Redmond High School. It’s hard to visualize the huge hen houses of both ranches on that barren hillside when driving by there today.” ●

NEW R.H.S. MEETING TIME! Saturday, March 11 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. OLD REDMOND SCHOOLHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER 16600 NE 80th St

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HISTORY IS HAPPENING IN REDMOND!

NEW MEETING TIME!

1:00 to 2:30 p.m. 2nd Saturday of the Month OLD REDMOND SCHOOLHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER 16600 NE 80th St

2006 MARCH 11 APRIL 8 MAY 13 JUNE 10 SEPTEMBER 9 OCTOBER 14 NOVEMBER 11 ...................................................

2006 EXECUTIVE BOARD Judy Lang President Naomi Hardy Vice-President Miguel Llanos Vice-President Teresa Becker Treasurer Margaret Wiese Corresponding Secretary Beryl Standley Recording Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terri Gordon Tom Hitzroth Jon Magnussen Amo Marr Daryl Martin Doris Schaible Patti Simpson Ward ...................................................

THE REDMOND REPORTER Published nine times annually Miguel Llanos Editor Patti Simpson Ward Newsletter Graphic Designer ©2006 Redmond Historical Society

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H

istory Mystery ~ Solved!

Eric Erickson got

some great leads from Harold “Butch” Kent and Daryl Martin regarding the logging truck photo shown in the last issue (and here again as a reminder). Eric writes the truck was a 1941 Model Ford, had special 18” heavy duty wheels and tires and a “Paul Bunyan” self trailer loader. The driver in the photo was Chuck Reil and the truck was owned by Claude Leavitt. The photo was taken in front of Bryden’s Texaco Service Station in Redmond some time during World War II. Daryl was the mechanic who worked on the truck at Bryden’s garage. Eric notes the truck was hauling logs off the ridge along the west side of the Snoqualmie River (Novelty Hill area) from the old Siler Logging Company area, which extended from the King County line near Clearview in a southeasterly direction to the Ames Lake area. This truck load went to the Kennydale Log Dump rollaway for booming and rafting to either a Ballard mill or perhaps the Barbee Mill (near the Kennydale log dump). ●

WALKING TOURS Are Nearly Here!

Tom Hitzroth is back for encore presentations on the histories of landmark buildings along Leary Way. The threeblock walks will start at 1 p.m. and end around 2.30 p.m. on: MAY 21 • JUNE 18 • SEPT. 17 Sign up by emailing Tom at [email protected] or by leaving a message at the R.H.S. office, 425.885.2919. A $6 per person fee, payable at the tour, goes towards purchasing a bench or two along the route. (Tours will be canceled in the event of rain.) (Continued from page 1.)

daughter Rhea had a farm at the bottom of Inglewood Hill Road. Heisdorf and Nelson had a breeding Farm on Hollywood Hill. Pierre and Violet Bruneau came to Redmond in 1946, and established the Skyline Poultry Ranch on North Dave Road on North Education Hill. That brings us to the Morelli brothers, Tito and Martino who started a ranch on 148th in 1918, now part of the Microsoft Campus. Dante and Panfilo Morelli will tell us their story about growing up on the farm on Saturday, March 11th, at our meeting in the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. Note: our meeting starts at a new time of 1:00 p.m. ● ~ Judy Aries Lang

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all in the Saddle!

igeon Pastime

Tony Emmanuel sent this tidbit on contemporary history: “There is a favorite corner in Redmond for pigeons: Redmond-Woodinville Road and 85th Street. What looks like 100 or more pigeons roost on the high wires across the street from the house of one of our members, Betty Buckley Anderson. Every once in a while, on my way to the post office, I see dozens of pigeons in Betty’s yard, pecking at the lawn in a frenzy. Could there be something special on her lawn for them to eat? I suspect this is so. If not, why would 100 pigeons be sitting on the high wires across the street staring at her house every day?” ● ............................................................

Roy Lampaert, right, and a friend ride their horses on the Lampaert cattle ranch, c.1922.

Editor’s note: After mulling this over with Tony, we figure the pigeons had migrated from the T&D Feed Mill after it was torn down in 2001!

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ALEXANDER’S BEACH RESORT? Anyone recall that resort on the east side of Lake Sammamish in Issaquah? If so, Phil Dougherty would love to talk to you for an article he’s writing for the Sammamish Review. Phil says the resort existed from 1917-85 but he doesn’t know much more. Memories and/or photos would be most appreciated! Phil can be reached at [email protected] or 425.836.0477.

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The Sept. 11, 1930 East Side Journal included this article about the success of the Aries Farm. Yes, that’s the same Aries as our President, Judy Aries Lang.

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W

ere you at our February 11 meeting?

These folks enjoyed our meeting last month. First time attendees are noted in BOLD TYPE and a ★!

Ballisty, Sharon

Hardy, Naomi

Radtke, Dick

Bellings, Lucile Hansen

Isackson, Duane

Rettig, Bobbie Graep

BRIGGS, TOM ★

Isackson, Joanne

Robinson, Vivian

Broadie, Dianna

Ives, Rosemarie

Rosenbach, Patsy Cook

BURRUS, SUE ★

Kenyon, Bruce

Standley, Beryl

COOK, ED ★

Kenyon, Cheryl

Stoneback, Phyllis

DeBlauw, Karen

Lang, Judy

Stray, Fran

Elduen, Violet Cook

Llanos, Miguel

Stray, Fred

Emmanuel, Tony

Lyons, George

Tollfeldt, Anne

Ferguson, Avis

Lyons, Jackie

Tollfeldt, Harvey

Garland, Lillian

Magnuson, Cheryl

Turner, Judy Gilbert

Gilbert, Evelyn King

Magruder, Joan

Ward, Patti Simpson

Goetschius, Millie

Marrs, Pat

Warner, Norma

Goetschius, Russ

Martin, Bob

Weiss, Ed

Hahnlen, Charlotte Everson

Martin, Daryl

Weiss, Rose

Hall, Tom

McCormick, Elma

WHITE, BOB ★

Hammersberg, Clara

McCoskrie, Don

Williams, Audrey

McSparran

McCoskrie, Eileen

Williams, Larry

Hammersberg, Jerry

Mellquest, Gerry Radtke

Hansen, Tom

Miller, Larry

Hanson, Marge

Neal, Marion Little

Hanson, Roy

RADTKE, BEV★

Mayor Rosemarie Ives explains the City's perspective on the Anderson Park water wells.

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Members enjoying Valentine treats ar our February meeting.

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Dianna Broadie talks about the new database of older Redmond structures.

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A Heap of Historical Thanks . . . TO THESE GREAT PEOPLE FOR DONATING TREASURES, EXPERTISE, TIME AND ENERGY! KIERSTEN PETESCH for scanning an entire notebook of people to be identified from Sammamish Valley News photographs. VIVIAN ROBINSON for photographs of 1950-60s Derby Days, their family farm on Education Hill and much more.

DON’T FORGET! NEW R.H.S. MEETING TIME! Saturday, March 11 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

LIZ COWARD for supplying the correct spelling of these teachers names: Jennie Shobert, Wolcker, Butorac and Gilson. CHERYL MAGNUSON and CLARA HAMMERSBERG for taking attendance and collecting dues at our February meeting. ROSE WEISS for identifying past Nokomis members for our archives. City Planning Department staffer DIANNA BROADIE for creating a valuable inventory master list of potentially historic Redmond buildings and sites ~ a database of great value to researchers. Recently retired City employee RICHARD SHERRILL for a collection of cloth name patches that belonged to the long-time caretaker of Anderson Park, Clarence Fullard. JERRY and CLARA HAMMERSBERG for steel pennies from 1943, when copper was used for the military. JEFF PARRISH for photos of the historic Beba/Crosby silo being moved to his property in the Snoqualmie Valley.

R.H.S.Goes to School “The Puzzle of Redmond,” artwork acquired by the Society from Redmond artist Luciana Conceicao, is currently on display in the library at Norman Rockwell Elementary, where children and adults are invited to see if they can identify the buildings in the painting. The Society plans to exhibit “The Puzzle” at other venues around the city. ●

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oin the Redmond Historical Society AND HELP DISCOVER, RECOVER, PRESERVE AND SHARE REDMOND’S HISTORY!

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