Historic Hood River
Snowy Oak Street, 1910’s
1-5-2012
Notes
Here’s a great snowy view down Oak Street from Fourth. Do you think the kids got a “snow day” off from school?
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Charlott
I imagine that there was a number of no school days. My Dad told that when he was a child it was nothing for the snow to be deeper than the top of the fence posts.
I think that one sign says Consolidated Mercantile Company? Right?
William J. Filz was a native of Wisconsin, coming to Oregon where he married Katherine Fischer/Fisher in 1908. He was a butcher by trade, so can only assume that this is his butcher shop on Oak Street. His daughter, Emma married Lawrence Butterfield. He did at one time own land in the Parkdale area.
Charlott
I kind of have a feeling that there was little or no business on Oak Street during this time. Keep in mind that any snow removal or moving around had to be done by hand, no snow plows.
I wonder what the man standing in front of the merchantile I thinking?
Also with snow this deep in town, think about what those poor people in Parkdale much have had or the rest of the valley for that matter. Would have been hard on farmers having to dig to their barns and outbuildings to care for their stock.
Yes, we have come a long way in the snow department.
l.e.
Perhaps the winter of 1915-16?
Arline Winchell Moore writes that the last few days of January warmed up to snow. Open fields ended up with five feet.
Thanksgiving 1919, a blizzard set in and they ended up with three to four feet of snow. The water in town froze up.
nels
Paris Fair on the right. When did Paris Fair open?
Arthur
Paris Fair opened spring of 1901 in a wooden building at this site, and this brick building was dedicated September 1906.
Nancy Trotic
I wonder if the man standing in front of the Consolidated Mercantile Company was perhaps my great-grandfather, Ira Ulysses "Lyss" Lafferty, who was listed as its secretary-treasurer in the Polk’s Hood River County directory for 1917…