Historic Hood River
White Salmon, 1920s
2-1-2021
Notes
Here’s a nice view of Jewett Street in White Salmon on digital loan to us. The three buildings in the foreground are still there.
Check out the hard rubber tires on that Master truck. The trailer tires are practically done. I like the screw jack to hold the load tight.
L.E.
Interesting the jacks holding up the chains. I wonder if every few miles they would climb up and adjust the jacks. Looks like they are about topped out.
What a bumpy ride into town.
Kyle
You’d feel every pebble…
ArthurB
Model T folks tell me given how primitive the suspension was in those vehicle you don’t really see much difference in ride between hard rubber tires and pneumatic tires. I’m skeptical. I actually have a set of hard rubber tires for my T but they are so dried out I fear they will disintegrate if I try to drive on them.
kmb
Great old truck photo. Dumb question: how does a "digital loan" of a photo work? Do you have to take the picture off the HHR site and give it back to someone at some point in the future?
Kenn
Must be a nice day, no side curtains and windshield wide open.
Stever
Hi Kenn ! Great ta see your name ! Been thinking of ya !
Beep beep .. Fast forward to 2021 …. I just noted the taller brick building listed for sale by the present owner. As I recall at one time it was a dentist office upstairs.
" 3rd oldest building in downtown White Salmon for sale. 2 floors 1,000 sq ft each, bar down, apt/offices up ( could convert to 2 condo’s?) Mt. Hood view from upstairs.Owner contract $750,000 Call 541-399-6920, please no texts or emails "
Ralph Allen Brown
I hope this was OK, but I have added this picture to Chapters 2 & 6 of my "Early Tears of White Salmon and Surrounding Areas" Facebook group. This is what I captioned it with: The above picture from the Hood River Museum digital collection. We now have a Hill’s Cash Store. The date this photo was taken was between 1916 and 1922, as the Columbia State Bank occupied the shorter brick building beginning 1916. In 1922 the building to the right burned down. The truck could be dated 1916 as it has the solid rubber tires and the kerosene head lights, but the vehicle to the right has metal rims and balloon tires so we will place a 1921 date on this picture. There are no newspaper articles to indicate a Hill’s Cash Store, but there was a 1920 article to indicate the Crow’s Cash Store. It appears the name of Crow’s was just changed to Hill’s
Jeffrey Bryant
Semi-trailers were a new thing for hauling freight in 1924. See Hood River Glacier, 1924-12-18, page 8.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071110/1924-12-18/ed-1/seq-8/