25 Years Ago
Thursday, June 30, 1983
• David Powell Road residents have a new “giant” to educate about their special water supply concerns. That giant is Weyerhaeuser, which is in the act of acquiring 80 acres above David Powell Road in a land exchange with the state Department of Natural Resources. Some residents are encouraged that the company will be sensitive to their concerns about contamination of water supplies from herbicide spraying.
• “Everyone who loves our new cable television service, stand up. Hey, wait a minute. Where are you all going? What are you doing with that rotten tomato? You say you don’t like our new stations? You say you don’t want to watch to watch 25-year-old situation comedies, weird video rock music or exciting health topics? And what happened to that Canadian station?” Well, Snoqualmie Valley customers of McCaw Cablevision haven’t actually got together yet, but if they did, their concerns would sound something like that.
50 Years Ago
Thursday, July 3, 1958
• With the Snoqualmie Firemen, the Snoqualmie Commercial Club, and Post 9476 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars pulling in harness, plans are shaping up for one of the most eventful four-day celebrations the community has ever seen. From Wednesday, July 30, through Saturday, Aug. 2, something will be popping every minute. The list already includes a carnival, two dances, the traditional Meadowbrook Street Dance and the popular Firemen’s Ball, a bigger and better Firemen’s Parade, and a playoff between two grade school baseball teams.
• If you’ve ever owned a dog long enough for it to become a family pet (which usually means longer than a day), you can sympathize with a Record advertiser who lost a real friend when his black Cocker, incurably ill, was put to sleep last week. They miss him so much they’ve decided to try to find another dog, equally lovable, of the same breed.
75 Years Ago
Thursday, June 29, 1933
• Miss Louise Jones, who has been spending the summer with her mother Mrs. Anna Jones at North Bend, left Saturday night via airplane for Chicago, where she will attend the World’s Fair. She traveled in one of the new 100-mile-an-hour Boeing planes of United Airlines, having accepted her air transportation ticket to Chicago from the American Automobile Corporation. Word was received by Mrs. Jones that her “air-minded” daughter had arrived safely in Chicago.
• Blanche Therkildsen of North Bend has this week installed in her beauty parlor a new Fredericks Vitron permanent waving machine, said to be the last word in equipment of this character.
• A business meeting of the Snoqualmie Valley Pioneer Association was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Larson in the Lower Valley Monday evening. This association is sponsoring the 10th annual Fourth of July Picnic, to which the public is cordially invited, to be held at a grove near the Adair Farm. The association will furnish plates, coffee, sugar and cream.
