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2-7-2022
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Notes

I usually crop out the messy bits of the images so you can see more of the main field, but in this case I think the story may be on the edge. This was the apple vinegar plant on Railroad Avenue, across the street from the packing houses. We know it burned in a large fire in 1925. It looks like this image may have survived the fire, which is pretty impressive considering how total the destruction appear to be in this image.

Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: fire, Industrial Avenue, Railroad Avenue, vinegar

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  1. L.E.

    7th February 2022 @ 08:03 AM

    “Strewn all over the place”, is the phrase that comes to mind for those apple boxes.
    So many of the lumber mills had a box factory. Can you imagine all the boxes needed for the HR, Mosier, The Dalles and WS orchards. Where I grew up at the west end of the Gorge it was prune boxes.

  2. nels

    7th February 2022 @ 10:37 AM

    Always wondered why there is no vinegar factory here to this day.

    Such a logical secondary business. Do any of the other apple

    areas of vinegar factories?

  3. ArthurB

    7th February 2022 @ 12:52 PM

    LE, the boxes caught my attention too. I would love a couple for the back of my truck.

    Prunes were a major crop in Hood River through the 1920s. My neighborhood on the east side of the city still has prune trees left over from the days of commercial crops. I enjoy them every summer.

  4. Barbara Parsons

    7th February 2022 @ 02:41 PM

    RememberThe huge vinegar barrel building on the last street next to the river? My dad worked for Webster Orchards just west of tge barrel. Vinegar leaked a little out between the barrel steves, perfuming the whole neighborhood like a salad bar,aand we smelled it when we drove past to pick him up.

  5. nels

    7th February 2022 @ 06:15 PM

    Nice word picture Barbara.

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