ROCKING CHAIR AND GOVERNMENT CHEESE
WWII VETERAN LOGGERS, ROCKING CHAIR, AND COMMODITIES: THE 1950’S VERSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT My Dad was a logger. When he worked, he worked hard, long hours at a dangerous and physically demanding job. In the summer he would work twelve hour days six or seven days a week. By the mid 1950’s logging became even more […]
OUR “NEW, MODERN OUTHOUSE
THE OUTHOUSE: RIGHT BEHIND THE HOT TUB I live in a retirement community north of Tucson, Arizona. We live in the nicest house I have ever owned. It is not grand or fancy or even very expensive by 2020 standards, but it is still what most would consider a nice, modern home. We love to […]
MY EARLY LITTLE LEAGUE CAREER
Setting A Record That Can Only Be Tied, But Never Broken 4th In A Series About Baseball MY EARLY LITTLE LEAGUE CAREER Setting A Record That Can Be Tied, But Never Broken 4th in a series about baseball I started playing baseball when I was about six. Jim and Rich, my older brothers, were pretty […]
BACK YARD BASEBALL
Or Be Careful Of The Cesspool In Deep Center Field 3rd In A Series About Baseball In the 1950’s baseball was king. We all had our favorite players. Growing up in Washington State in the 1950’s meant the nearest major league team was in St. Louis, which was 2000 miles away. Seattle had the AAA […]
YARB BALL AND WIFFLE BALL
2nd In A Series About Baseball YARN BALL AND WIFFLE BALL 2nd in a series about baseball and little league Kids in the 1950’s played baseball or some version of it all summer long. In Salkum we played on our Haslett field behind our house. We would play for hours and then head the short […]
SALKUM REDS: First in a 5 part series about baseball
WHAT IS A “SALKUM RED?” First in a five part series about baseball and Little League Around 1955 two brothers, who became rich in the logging industry, decided to form a little league for the towns in the Mossyrock School District. Norman and Marvin Howard, along with other local merchants from Salkum, Mossyrock, Mayfield, Silver […]
SALKUM REDS – BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Most people reading these stories already know me from my early days in Salkum or Mossyrock, as an adult during my career in education or in my retirement years in Arizona. However, I if you plan on continuing to read the posts, a little more detailed background is necessary to understand and enjoy them. I […]
JIM BUILDS A ZIP LINE
My brother, Jim was always doing crazy things. THE SALKUM ZIP LINE OR THE DAY JIM ALMOST IMPALED HIMSELF ON A MAPLE During the last few years there has been a boom in the zip line industry. I first went on one in Puerto Vallarta in 2005 and had never seen anything like it. By […]
INTRODUCTION – Gary Haslett
I lived in Salkum, a small logging town in southwest Washington, from age 3 to 14. I moved to Mossyrock, Washington (10 miles east of Salkum) my freshman year and graduated from Mossyrock High School in 1965. Salkum was a town of about 200 people and Mossyrock was a metropolis of about 400. There were […]