Historic Hood River
Prince and Herb
11-9-2017
Notes
This is Prince with his boy Herb Scobee at their 401 Montello home. Herb’s dad was a dentist and mayor of Hood River in the 1920s when our city hall building was constructed. When Herb grew up he moved to 301 Montello. Late in his life he added the note to the back of this image: “My favorite dog Prince.”
L.E.
All of those trees planted in the yard are going to grow up and block the view.
I wonder if the house that we see just over the hill is still there?
Mary Bartmess Kramer
When my children were that age and he an older man we lived across the street from his house at 301 Montello in the home that had been his sisters. There is a beautiful view because it is on the corner looking down Serpentine.
nels
Mary, have you been by there recently to see all the lovely landscaping the current residents have put in?
Judy
Did Herb ever work as a process server for the HR County Sheriff’s Dept.?
Barbara Parsons
Herb’s mother lived with him in that house at 301 Montello. My family lived behind them at 302 Prospect. Mrs. Scobee had a little white "sleeping house," I guess you’d call it, in the back yard, screened like a sleeping porch, only not attached to the house. Whenever my mom and I would go down to our clothesline at night to gather in our clothes, Mother would caution me not to talk, for fear we would wake up Mrs. Scobee. She was the "sleeping beauty" of our neighborhood.
On the subject of sleeping porches, does anybody remember which houses had one? The Onthank house, next door to the west of the Scobees’, had one on the second floor on the back. I used to wish we had one, so we could sleep in it at least in the summers. Even though many of the houses I remember in Hood River seem to have been built when sleeping porches were considered aids to good health, as CPAP machines are now, I can’t recall any others.