Historic Hood River
Scrap Drive
4-25-2022
Notes
The demand for material to make munitions led communities across the country to hold scrap drives to gather whatever metals or rubber they could find. Readers may remember I am still looking for evidence of what happened to the supposed Civil War cannon which used to be at our county courthouse. We know it was fired every July 4th into the early twentieth century, until the GAR member who could safely fire the weapon was no longer available. My best guess is it wound up in one of these drives. Perhaps it’s at the bottom of that pile?
That’s Percy Laraway looking through the scrap trying to identify objects which could be repaired instead of being scrapped. You may remember him posing in the orchard many years before.
Roger Sheldrake
Wasn’t there a junk/scrap man up on the heights? Maybe west of where the paint store is now. Warren Shaffy??
Jeffrey W Bryant
Harry Gross was a junk dealer in Hood River in the late 1910’s and early 1920’s. He came from Russia, died in 1971 and is buried in Portland. See:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97071110/1918-03-28/ed-1/seq-7/ for an example article from the Hood River Glacier. I have other references if desired. He was living at 216 1st Street, Hood River, in 1920.
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Interesting that there are so many wood/coal cook stoves there. ‘Course this was about the time that electricity was widely used and these stoves must have been in the barn anyway.