Historic Hood River
Hood River 1902
11-3-2017
Notes
I think this 1902 view of a snowy Oak Street looking west is a companion to this view looking east. There is a great view of the Bartmess Building (still around) as well as the old wooden Paris Fair and O. B. Hartley’s Grocery store. Poor Hartley had a meet market that was displaced by the Paris Fair, so he moved next door, only to be displaced again when they expanded eastward.
Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: 1900s, Bartmess Building, Hartley Grocery, Oak Street, Paris Fair
Tags: 1900s, Bartmess Building, Hartley Grocery, Oak Street, Paris Fair
Bill Seaton
I think this is one of the best early views I’ve seen of the Bartmess Building. As I’ve noted before, in the 1950’s, I lived in the apartment behind that balcony.
L.E.
Brrrrrr.
The photo definitely wasn’t taken in early January of 1902:
HR Glacier January 10, 1902
Chinook winds and warm rain have given us in Hood River springlike weather since the holidays. Several kinds of wild flowers are in bloom, and children gather bouquets every day. A White Winter Permain apple tree on J.R. Crosby’s place, on the East Side, is ready to burst forth in bloom. There has been no snow fall in Hood River so far this winter.
Arthur
Interesting weather research, L.E. Must have been later in the year. The photo says 1902 on it, and that is reinforced by the lineup of buildings. If I trust my memory, the wood frame Paris Fair was established about 1901-02, and a brick annex was added to the Bartmess Building in 1904. I researched this block for a talk I prepared on the Paris Fair building.
L.E.
By January 31, the wild flowers were covered with snow and frozen.
The temperature had dropped to 4 degrees and the Columbia River was freezing over.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071110/1902-01-31/ed-1/seq-2/
jeanie
Interesting to see the utility poles with multiple crossbeams. Also the oak trees in the center of Oak Street.
L.E.
From the December 12, 1891 HR Glacier:
"Mr. Hartley has leased a small tract of land near the Hood river bridge, of Mrs. Oiler, and will erect a slaughter house thereon."
L.E.
From the November 14, 1918 Goldendale Sentinel 25 years ago section:
November 16, 1893
A litter of pigs and their mamma, belonging to O.B. Hartley, recently swam the Columbia from near the mouth of Hood River, and last week a big steer, starting from the same place, swam up the eddy to the big rock near the ferry landing, where he climbed out and took a rest and then struck out for the Washington shore, which he reached safely.