Historic Hood River
Life Interrupted
6-13-2012
Notes
Here’s another of Alva Day’s striking frames documenting a June 1927 flood in Arlington, Oregon. You know I like to post interiors when I can find them, especially when they show everyday life in the period. This interior turned exterior certainly reveals quite a bit about life next to the train tracks in Arlington in 1927. I hope there was some warning before the flooded creek took out the road and this building.
Here’s the contemporary newspaper account of the event.
Charlott
Amazing what wrath Mother Nature can impose. Just think this town going through all this and then the town had to be relocated when they put in The Dalles Dam.
I am thinking that this might possibly be a hotel. There are an awfully lot of windows along the right side of photo. You have all these bedrooms all lined up, decorated, or they were very sparsely as in a hotel. Makes sense to me, a hotel close to the railroad track.
l.e.
Thanks for the newspaper article Arthur. I had searched yesterday but couldn’t find anything other than Arlington had suffered a cyclone a few years earlier.
Look at the mud piled up in there!
Amazing and scary.
Do these towns now have some type of flood control in place in these creek beds?
Dan K
The town of Arlington was relocated when the John Day dam went in. It looks to me they built to close to China Ditch which still floods time time when they get heavy rains there. I lived there for 14 years before moving back to The Dalles.
judy
Isn’t there a dam in Heppner?
Charlott
Sorry, meant to say John Day dam, instead of The Dalles.
thom turner
A great musician is from Arlington: Doc Severinson.