PRESERVING THE STORIES OF ISSAQUAH
A Memory Book Project of the
Issaquah Historical Society
Lawrence Campbell
I played football and track.- Coach Morgan
I remember Miss Martin. It seems to me Minnie Schomber was a part time teacher. She was also on the draft board. She sent me a greeting card.
I was in Seattle.
I played football in 1933 - 36 and 1937. Gordon Crosby and me bumped heads. I got banged up bad. My Mother wouldn’t let me play in 1934. Dr. Hillery saw my Mother and Father and they let me play Junior and Seniors years. I was in one play. Dock Hillery patched me up.
Where did you and your friends spend your free time as teenagers? What kind of mischief did you get into? How did your parents or teachers punish you when you got into trouble?
Dave Bonner and me hiked all over Tiger Mtn. and Squak Mtn. I fished the Issaquah Creek most people don’t know the creek was closed. I hunted deer an also trapped.
Andy Wold - Sunset Way and Front Street. I also remember Punk Wold and Lewis Hardware.
I remember Lewis Barber Shop next to the Ford garage. I would tell Dave to give me a depression haircut (short).
I remember Tom real well. I would by hooks and B.B’s. I still like the old floor.
I didn’t shop, my Mother did.
I shopped there. I rented a locker there. I remember “Puck” Pickering was shot in a robbery. It was a great old store.
I went to both places, the XXX was the best. I remember Dave Morgan had a XXX on Sunset Way. It was later moved.
Once in a while.
Log Tavern. I still remember the running water where the old timers spit.
Paul Koss had the tavern. Then someone by the name of John Fook took it over.
Never shopped there.
I remember they were in the corner across from the old bank building . I remember him and his wife.
I remember Stella Alexander also when she lived Her husband had a blacksmith shop where Dr. Perkins is now. She cleaned house and was later recalled.
I remember Bill Flintoft. He knew how to get what he wanted.
I was born 2-3-17 in Issaquah. In 1937 I got a job at the Issaquah Mill (Person and Erickson) The pay was $4.00 a day. Hard work! $4.00 a day when in so many people had none. You learned to save money. It is not this way now. My Dad had a small farm so we did have food.
I joined the Marines. Boot camp was bad. I was 28 years old when I went in. I joined the V.F.W.
Ray Smart was shot down over Italy. He was close friend.
Don’t remember any.
I was working at Boeing when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. Later went to McChord Field then the U.S.M.C.
Labor Day the most fun . Salmon Days is so crowded you can’t walk. I remember when they had the Rodeo. It was a lot of fun in Issaquah. The Taverns was closed so no fights, only fun. I miss that Rodeo more than Salmon Days.
Labor Day was the best . Every one was happy. Now things have changed.
I remember the Rodeo and the fence around it. I walked home on the R.R. tracks and an Indian was ahead of me. I stopped and then went by him. He looked mean to me.
I remember when the Issaquah Creek went over the road. Dave Bonner had a Model T Ford and said, “ I might as well take the radiator cap off and fill the radiator.” The water was that deep.
Pete Favini and Archie Adair picked a Ditch across the road and in an hour the water cut a 50 ft. ditch . Later they made a dike.
I remember Tyee’s house burned down.
I spent a lot of time outside. There was no trails you made you own. Dave Bonner and me hiked from Harris Mine to Beckers (Sycamore). There were four mountains to cross.
We shot a 207lb four point and then we tried to see who shot it. (never did know).
Dave Bonner and me found the caves above Lake Tradition in the 30’s. Forty years later, said they found the caves.
I lost count how many fish I caught out of the Issaquah Creek. The longest was twenty -two inches. I learned later it was a Steelhead. I fished above the spill-way and met Ivar Darcy. He gave me hell, said that was his part of the Creek, mine was above the spill way (down). He then laughed.
The creek was full of red fish in the fall. I can’t go into that. In early days the King Salmon never came up the creek. I caught 30 Steelhead out of Tokul Creek in one year.
Swimming and skating; once in awhile a dance.
Rich Holder and I walked down to the Lake Sammamish. Their was a pier north of the boat launch. We swam and played tag on the log out in the lake. We asked Hans Jenson if we could have some of his apples. He said don’t take a bite and leave them. He also said don’t break my fence down. He was a very nice man.
We sent into Horrocks pond and fished. It was real good. Guess he would let us if we asked him.
I wasn’t a logger. High Point logged the north side of Tiger Mountain. Wood and Iverson logged the south side.
Dave Bonner and me worked for Erickson and Pearson. We bucked logs to length… hard work. On day we rolled a log on the carriage and it was full of bees. Guess you know that cleared the place. They blamed up but we really didn’t know . I’m sure if we knew about the bees we still have rolled it on the carriage anyway. I didn’t know Erland Pearson could move that fast. He was a dogger on the carriage.
I saw the fire from my Dad’s house…hot! hot! A fire large you don’t forget it. It was where 2nd Ave. and Hobart Road met. Dodge build a house there later.
Of late the Hatchery has helped Issaquah Salmon days for one. They planted King Salmon. There wasn’t any before the Hatchery. I think the WPA saved it.
My Dad had a small farm; one cow, one pig, chickens and a garden. We did real good.
I remember the green grass and not asphalt. I remember the Sky Port and also the K.K.K. meeting in 1924.
No. I remember Hans Foster
No. Bus ran slow.
It changed Issaquah but the Metro Sewer is what changed the valley.
A 1939 Chevrolet I bought if from Fink My Dad bought a Model T from Hepler.
I belong to the Eagles for over 30 yrs.
I could hear all the shooting. My Dad won a pig there once.
No.
Yes.
I wasn’t involved. May Dad mined for 40years. I went down in the Grand Ridge Mine and came back to the top. My Dad started the mines on Tiger Mountain and the Pacific Coal Company. He also mined at Niblocks.
Never mined; my Dad wouldn’t let me.
I remember the silent movie. I think the cost was a dime.
My Mother shopped at Fishers Meat. I always went. Bill Haglin always gave me a hot dog
I also remember Finney Meat Market
I also remember Peters Realtor
I also remember Fred Courras (?)
I also remember Honeysuckle
I also remember Union Tavern
My Dad was born in 1884 in Penn. He came to the Oregon Territory in 1884 at six weeks old. He was here before Washington was a state. The Campbells settled on Tiger Mountain on about one hundred acres.
When my Dad, also Lawrence, was 14 years old he started in the mines. He retired at 62 years. He cleared the right of way from Issaquah to the Hobart Road. He built a five bedroom house south of the bus barn. I remember the water tower for the trains. Some of it was a hobo jungle.
My Dad died at 83 years old. My Mother, Lydia Holder, was a great cook. She sure worked very hard.
My family was made up of one son and four daughters. The children were: Dorothy, Gertrude, Ruth, Lawrence and Jean. A daughter, Martha, died at an early age.