Historic Hood River
Cascades
9-29-2022
Notes
You know I can’t resist trying to match a negative to a Google Maps view. This Laraway image was likely taken just a bit west of the current bridge landing, but this view from the bridge is the only way to avoid all the trees. If you look closely at the right margin you’ll see a train chugging downs the tracks, with a nice plume of steam for Arlen. Best I can do with timeframe is “circa 1910.”
L.E.
Thanks for mentioning the train. I would have missed it.
I think right around that point of rock on the left, was Fort Lugenbeel.
Lot of history right in this spot.
Arlen L Sheldrake
thanks Arthur…..I wonder if the photographer intended to get the loco in the picture or if it was a fluke. I, like L.E. would have missed it.
ArthurB
I don’t think locomotives were ever a fluke! The rails weren’t so busy back then, were they?
cecelia
With so much change from Bonneville dam backing up water it’s hard to relate the two pictures. Could the island on the left be the east end of Bradford Island?
ArthurB
Cecilia, It would all make sense if we could move the Google camera back a couple of hundred feet. The land to the left if Washington, and if you were stadig there today your view would be blocked by the bridge.