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JAUNARY 2007 NEWSLETTER REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1 16600 NE 80th Street, Room 106
Redmond, WA 98052 ~ Tel 425.885.2919
Our Mission:
To Discover, Recover, Share and Celebrate website ~ www.redmondhistory.org
Redmond’s History e-mail ~ redmondhistory@hotmail.com
HISTORY IS HAPPENING IN REDMOND! HOURS: Mon . & Fri. 4-6 p.m./Tues.-Thurs. 1-6 p.m.

P
resident’s Corner
“Redmond Reflections: From
W orking in World War II

Settlers to Software.” Have you seen

it? Have you bought one? Maybe
you received one as a gift? If your
answer is no, then you are missing out.
Naomi Hardy has spent the last few
years putting together a collection of
photos, captions and short stories to
create a memory of Redmond. Now the
book is available at our office or via mail.
(See Page 5.)
Last month a fellow stopped in to buy
the book. He started to tell me about the
first time he came through Redmond. His
family was driving west in a touring car
from the Dakotas and they decided not
to spend the night at Snoqualmie Pass
(I’m wondering if there was a place to Today’s Carillon Point in Kirkland used to be the site of WWII
stay at Snoqualmie) and proceeded on shipyards that employed hundreds of local residents. The yards
to Kirkland. They didn’t see a light until were so central to life back then that
they got to Rose Hill. That sure wouldn’t they even had their own
NEXT
be the case today, but that was in 1923. newspaper, copies of which MEETING
Grenfall Dalgleish introduced himself were donated to the
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
and confessed he lives in Houghton. I Society by Shirley Haines, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Old Redmond Schoolhouse
sold him a book anyway. “Dag,” as he our January speaker. Community Center
is referred to, didn’t say if the road was Among those pictured
Topic:
bumpy or smooth, but I bet they didn’t here are: (at top left) John Lake Washington Shipyards
fight traffic. Fries, Jim Pederson, Ken
SPEAKER:
On pages 49 and 50 of Redmond Belland, Duane Peabody, Shirley Haines
Reflections there are old photos of Tack Johnson, Gladys Myers,
(Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2)

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 GENERAL
MEETINGS
2nd Saturday of the Month
10:00 a.m.
P resident’s Corner
(Continued from page 1)

transportation and a
couple newspaper articles.
Old Redmond
Schoolhouse From Charlotte Hahnlen’s
Community Center collection a photo of
16600 NE 80th St Godtfrit Everson in a
horse drawn sulky. He was
the first to arrive in
2007 From the Liz Carlson Coward collection. This photo of
January 13 Kirkland on the new a truck and crew in Happy Valley, c. 1920, is among the
february 10 more than 800 in “Redmond Reflections.”
paved Redmond-Kirkland
march 10
Highway 1927. The Perrigo family provided photos of 1930 Redmond and
april 14
may 12 Mark and Mabel Johnson in a lead car as the group started out for Maine in
june 9 1923. See the Redmond Stage Line photo with Wilson Adams sitting in the
september 8
October 13 auto, courtesy of Brad Best. Also we have a copy from the Eastside Journal,
November 9 1925, reporting on the new road from Fall City to Redmond. Grenfold tells
................................................... another story about the old shipyard where his dad worked running a band
2007 Executive Board saw. An aroma of vanilla would fill the air throughout Kirkland when he cut
Judy Lang President cedar from Port Offord, Oregon. This is when the boats were made of wood.
Naomi Hardy Vice-President
On page 40 we have an article from Nancy Way about the Lake
Miguel Llanos Vice-President
Joanne Westlund Treasurer Washington Shipyards and a picture of Mary Robinson Stone wearing her
Margaret Wiese Corresponding full leather gear that she wore while working at the shipyard from Clarence
Secretary
Beryl Standley Stone’s collection.
Recording Secretary The book has been dedicated to our greatest historian, Bob Bailie. Chuck
Lee, photographer for the Sammamish Valley News, has donated many
Board of Directors
Terri Gordon Tom Hitzroth negatives from when he was part of the SVN team. Many thanks to all of you
Jon Magnussen Amo Marr who have donated and shared your photographs and stories that helped
Doris Schaible
Patti Simpson Ward Naomi compile a book of over 800 images of Redmond.
Buy a book and you just might see your picture. (Now that could be a
Executive Director scary thought for some.)
Beryl Standley
Join us Saturday, January 13 at 10 a.m. at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse
Attorney
Charles Diesen Community Center for our first meeting of 2007 where Shirley Haines will tell
................................................... her shipyard stories. l
~ Judy Aries Lang, RHS President
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Meeting Topic: Lake Washington Shipyards
(Continued from page 1)
mew@nwlink.com. State your
preference of e-mail or U.S. Mail Clarence Breedman, Merrill Matthews, Ted Lukin; (top right) children’s
(e-mail is cheaper for the city and
beauty contest winners Terry Lee Warren and his dad, Harry B. Warren,
the photos look better on-line).
................................................... and Carole Person and her mom, Mrs. Orvile Person; and bathing beauty
winners Bernice Moore, left, Ardean Beggs (shown twice!) and Lucille
The Redmond Recorder Wanezek.
Published nine times annually
Miguel Llanos Editor Shirley, who went to work at the shipyards as a teenager, is a sergeant
Patti Simpson Ward major, retired from the U.S. Marines after 35 years. And she is the second
Newsletter Graphic Designer
longest working employee at Boeing, having been there for 60 years. l

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Teen Canteen & School
“Jolly gee! What a trip to read all the names
that I lost contact with over the many years of
travel,” Wayne (Buck) Willhite wrote after reading
H istorical Photos

our November newsletter. “Darwin (Richardson)

and I faked a fight on the dance floor of the Teen
Canteen while the girls screamed, then we got our
guitars out and played a few songs. Mr. Sorweide
didn’t break it up because he was in on it.”
Buck, now 70, used to live next to the Cedar
Lawns cemetery, and recalls playing “army” in the
coal mine started by William Perrigo on the side of
the hill near school.
“When I used to catch the bus from the store
across from Morey’s Auction and go to the
Redmond School,” he added, “as you crossed Bear
Creek there was a population sign there that read
626, later it read 1,056. That’s when Mr. Vernon
Leatha was the principal, and I had Miss Burk, my
first real love (5th grade). Miss Butorack . . . bad
school marm. Mr. Kellogg was our tough shop
teacher with the 18-inch paddle (with 8 holes in it
to let the wind go through).”
“Learned a lot working at the Sammamish
Valley News from age 16 to age 20, feeding the big
Mealey press and handsetting news headlines for
Robert M. Bailey.”
Buck can be contacted by e-mail at
wil@willapabay.org. l
Know a Heritage Hero?
The society is taking nominations for our annual
award, which recognizes efforts to preserve and
share our heritage. Mayor Rosemarie Ives received
the inaugural award last year, and we’ll announce
the 2007 winner at our May meeting. Send
nominations to redmondhistory@hotmail.com or
call Beryl Standley at 425.885.2919. l
Anderson Park Cabins
The City is providing a $40,000 facelift for the
Anderson Park log cabins so they’ll meet county
and national historic landmark standards. at left was originally the Eagle Bar, owned by Orson Wiley.
4Culture describes the effort on its website at:
www.4culture.org/preservation/projects. l
(Above) The phone
company building on
Leary Way.
(Right) The Pinocchio
costume at the
Redmond Derby.
Loita Hawkinson of the Kirkland Heritage Society
writes of the Derby Pinocchio costume photo in the
November 2006 newsletter (and seen above as well):
“The Pinocchio costume was most likely made by a
Phil Smith of Kirkland. David Burr, owner of the Lake
Washington Telephone Company, organized the Kirkland
parades and had many paper mache costumes made . . .
by Phil Smith.”
“David Burr had the Telephone building in Redmond
. . . Redmond got dial phones . . . called automatics in
1927 ~ many, many years before Kirkland. With David Burr
doing business in both Kirkland and Redmond (he lived
in Kirkland), it makes perfect sense that he loaned the
costume for Derby Days.”
Also shown here is a photo Loita sent us from the
Kirkland Society’s archives of the telephone company
building on Leary Way. In 1955, Brad Best bought the
historic Redmond State Bank, which is partly seen at right.
Brad combined the telephone building with the bank
building, so today it is one building. The wooden structure
Today, Brad Best Realty’s parking lot is located where the
bar stood. l

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W ere You at Our November Meeting?
74 attended! First time attendees are noted in BOLD TYPE and a

Alexander, Margo Lang, Judy Roe, Phil

★! A Heap of
Historical
Thanks
To these geat people for
Anderson, Ralph ★ Larsen, Craig ★ Rockenbeck, Margy
donating treasures, expertise,
Bay, Joanne Larson, Leonard ★ Roe, Phil Rosenbach,
time and envergy!
Becker, Dan Larson, Maxine ★ Patsy
Becker, Teresa Llanos, Miguel Rosenbach, Ruth Ann
Bennett, Bill Magnuson, Cheryl Solomon, Brad
Campbell, Sally Magruder, Joan Standley, Beryl Talley Hudson in the
Davies, John Marr, Amo Stoneback, Phyllis mayor’s office for photos of
Emmanuel, Tony Marrs, Carl Stray, Fred
the 85th Street bridge.
Garland, Lillian Marrs, Pat Sugden, Charlene
Gilbert, Evelyn Martin, Daryl Sugden, Mark
Tollfeldt, Anne Cheryl Humphrey for an
Goetschius, Millie Martin, Ward
Goetschius, Russ McClung, Andy Tollfeldt, Harvey Old Hickory Bourbon bottle
Hall, Tom McCormick, Elma Trapp, Carol found under the Old Redmond
Hanson, Marge Miller, Larry Vallene, Arlyn Schoolhouse Community
Hanson, Roy Muñoz, Alexa Watkins, JoAnn Center during the last
Hardy, Naomi Peterson, Ron ★ Way, Bill ★ renovation.
Hawkinson, Dale Phillips, John Way, Nancy
Hawkinson, Loita Phillips, Roxana Westlund, Joanne
Norma Warner for
Hitzroth, Tom Plackett, Holly White, Bob
mounting photos for sale in
Hudson, Carolyn Robinson, Lynn ★ Wiese, Margaret
Ingersoll, Jo Ann Robinson, Steve★ Williams, Audrey the office.
Isackson, Diana Robinson, Vivian Williams, Larry
Isackson, Lloyd Rockenbeck, Dave Wilson, Bonnie ★ Steve Robinson for the
Keeley, Elaine Rockenbeck, Margy Wilson, Clyde ★ donation of the Norm’s Resort
Yoder, Bob sign, which he says was “a

N ew Major Benefactors
The family of Woody Reed,
MAJOR
BENEFACTORS
present I got from my wife
for a birthday present many
years ago when she was on
one of her antiquing visits
around the area.”
an early Society member John Anderson
who has since passed away, Barbara Neal Beeson Lois Weed for a box of
donated two plots at the Cedar Brad Best vintage Swedish clothes
Lawns Redmond Cemetery. As Naomi Hardy that had belonged to Agnes

a result, we welcome Woody’s

Patricia Weiss Jovag Katarina Johnson
Barbara Weiss Joyce (1892 – 1991).
widow Frances, his grandson
Glenn Lampaert (deceased)
David and his daughter Allison
Roy Lampaert Tony Emmanuel for further
Reed Morris to our list of Major Miguel Llanos essays on the changing times
Benefactors. Jon Magnussen he’s witnessed in Redmond.
The Society is selling the Daryl Martin
plots, which if bought through Vivian Robinson Bea Leland for area maps,
Cedar Lawns would sell Laurie Rockenbeck old issues of the Sammamish
for around $4,000 each. If Margy Rockenbeck Valley News, Derby programs,
interested, please contact Beryl
William Rockenbeck planning notes and
Don Watts
Standley at 425.885.2919. l photographs.
Margaret Evers Wiese

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I nside Redmond
Reflections
Haven’t checked out our new book yet?
There’s a good chance that you, your
family and/or friends are mentioned or
shown among the 108 pages. In fact, an
index of names makes it easy to find
out who’s where! The pictorial essay of
our heritage also answers questions like:

• Why did people come to our

village of Salmonberg?
• How were they received by Native
People?
• What industry created our first
business boom and why did it
disappear?
• Is Sammamish a river or a slough?
• Where were nuclear warheads located off Avondale?
• Where is the sunken forest that’s been underwater for 1,000 years?

As for our cover image, that’s Bear Creek. To the left is where Safeway and Bear Creek Village stores sit today. l

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