Historic Hood River
Where Hood River Apples Go
7-9-2014
Notes
This fine hand colored postcard demonstrates a little hometown pride. The H.F. Davidson wagon has a sign boasting “20 Boxes of Apples/ $90 / For Hankow, China/ Grown at Eggermont, Hood River”. The rig is posed in front of the Davidson Fruit building on Cascade Avenue.
The card is postmarked from Hood River in 1909, and addressed to Vernon Shoemaker of Hood River. The message is short:
From Maude the Mule
There is a small drawing which looks more like a frog wearing sunglasses than a mule, but I suppose mules are not known for their drawing skills.
Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: 1900s, agriculture, apples, carriage, Cascade Avenue, Davidson, horses, postcard, wagon
Tags: 1900s, agriculture, apples, carriage, Cascade Avenue, Davidson, horses, postcard, wagon
nels
Pretty spendy apples for 1909. Is that someone’s humor, or for real?
Buzz
The only thing I know about the fruit industry is what went on in those orchards after dark.
Charlott
Vernon Shoemaker was a woman. She worked in the post office in Hood River, most of her life I think. Her father had an orchard on Hwy 35 in the Pine Grove area.
Chuckle, chuckle, Buzz…………..bet you do!!!
Christy Jefferson
I don’t know if anyone is still checking this comment, but I was looking for my cousin D. Vernon Shoemaker and here she was mentioned. I was hoping to find an obituary to learn more about her life. My grandma and I visited her several times when I was a young teen. The comment about the post office is ringing a bell.
Jeffrey Bryant
Christy Jefferson you could ask the History Museum of Hood River County to do an obituary lookup for you. They have the old newspaper files.
Jim Sweet
Great photo. Eggermont was established in 1896 by my Great-Grandaunt Elizabeth Avery Eggert and husband Frederick Eggert as their summer home. The orchard business was run by Elizabeth’s brothers, Henry and Thomas Avery. The Eggerts sold the property in 1911 as Frederick’s health was declining.