Historic Hood River
Summer Picnic Season
8-2-2023
Notes
Summer is the time for group picnics. This is a detail from a Weister panorama of the “Annual Horse Shoer’s and Blacksmith’s Picnic” at Bonneville on August 16, 1914. I suspect the picnic got smaller every year after this, as both of these professions shrank considerably in the twentieth century. I’m not sure which Hood Riverites attended the event, but this came from a local family.
The picnic must have included a baseball game, as many of the attendees wore hometown uniforms. I didn’t find any Hood River uniforms, but you can see a “Marshfield” uniform in the front row. Marshfield is now part of Coos Bay.
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Tags: 1910s, baseball, blacksmith, Bonneville, horseshoer, Marshfield, panorama, picnic, Weister
Tags: 1910s, baseball, blacksmith, Bonneville, horseshoer, Marshfield, panorama, picnic, Weister
L.E.
They seem to be dressed pretty fancy for horseshoers and blacksmiths.
One of the first rodeos here in Glenwood, (1914) included a baseball game. Also a big picnic and a dance. I don’t know how they fit all that activity into one day.
I am tired after just the picnic.
Roger H Sheldrake
Ah; the hat era. Every man woman and child wore a hat or cap. I’ll bet most of them had the good sense to remove it upon entering a home or sitting down at Mom’s dinner table. Sadly not today!
kmb
Very well dressed for a picnic…at least by today’s standards. Hope it wasn’t a hot day!
Arlen L Sheldrake
Roger, per your hat comment, one of my many favorite exhibits at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center of a diner car chair, under the chair is a platform with a knob in the center. the platform is for the hat and the knob is to keep the hat from sliding off….yes, NEVER a hat on the head at the table.