Historic Hood River
Koberg View
7-28-2016
Notes
I don’t think we’ve seen this view of Koberg Beach before. Based on the clothing I’m guessing this is the 1920s. I like the view of Burdoin Mountain and Bingen.
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Lynne Holmes
Dresses were shorter in the ’20’s. But maybe not in Hood River? Fascinating to see all that sand on a steep shore and a rich shoreline in WA.
Kenn
Pictures of Koburg show swimming in a bay while these people are in the river, seems that this would be less safe with pre dam current. I wonder if this beach continued down to the Hood River and could be traversed that far.
Longshot
The river looks quite narrow in the picture. As a guess I would say it is late August and the water levels are quite low and thus the river quite narrow.
Kenn
River would be narrow and swift in this picture before dam, lost a lot of beach and trees when this section of the Columbia River became Lake Bonneville.
L.E.
No surprise that it looks like the wind is blowing.
Might be able to date the photo by the tower. Not sure when it went in.
Can anyone see a house or a flume on Burdoin?
Arthur
I double checked the angle to make sure this is the beach near Koberg and not where the HR Inn is today. Definitely Koberg, though the west end of Koberg away from Stanley Rock.
Steve r
@ L E – I spy a darker square figure / structure mid picture just above the slide … And the road cut ithat appears on the hillside above to the left I suspect is visible current day.
L.E.
The sand bank drops off so steeply, and so quickly. I agree with Longshot and guess late summer. Perhaps the cove by the resort was too low
I have heard that there was a flume carrying water from Burdoin to Strawberry Mountain for irrigation
Barbara Parsons
We moved to Hood River in 1943, and on one of our family’s first visits to Koberg Beach my mother Ellen Parsons pointedout a large culvert emptying into the Columbia a short way from the sitevvof this photo. She told us, "That is the sewer. It is where all the water from Hood River’s toilets dumps into the river. Don’t ever swim there." Was that true? And where does the sewer go now?