Historic Hood River
Fashion Stable Detail
7-10-2023
Notes
We’ve seen this view of the first Fashion Stable at Oak and 1st before, but I found another copy with enough resolution to zoom in to the great detail. You can appreciate what it took to rig up a wagon– or dress to go out of the house. The projecting sign to the right says “Fashion Stables, Feed and Sale”. The cupola of the Mt. Hood Hotel rises above the livery building. The number of insulators on the utility pole tells us how many phone lines there were in the neighborhood, as each line got it’s own wire. There’s a street light hovering like a UFO to the right of the livery. And of course, there’s the dog in the woman’s lap.
Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: 1900s, 1st Street, carriage, dog, electricity, Fashion Livery, horse, Mt Hood Hotel, Oak Street, telephone, wagon
Tags: 1900s, 1st Street, carriage, dog, electricity, Fashion Livery, horse, Mt Hood Hotel, Oak Street, telephone, wagon
L.E.
Seems odd that they needed a street light.
Was if for lighting the intersection?
Arthur Babitz
The center of the business district got street lights as soon as the power plant was established. I think it was a sign of modernity. Within a short time people added electric lights to their business signs too. Paris Fair sign was lighted by 1904, for example. There was a lighted mortar and pestle at the corner of 2nd and Oak to promote the drug store.