Newest comments on : Historic Hood River

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by Bill Seaton

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:59 -0700

About the mid 1950's, my Mom met the fellow who bought the distillery with the intention of starting to make vodka there. He invited us to come look at his purchase and he took us through the building. I had never before smelled such a potent odor that one that came from the uncleaned wine spills.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by charlott

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:46 -0700

In the photo looking east, the house sitting up on the loops was the home of Wallace "Fibber" McGee. He was a postman in town in the 1940's.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by AndrewB

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:22 -0700

What happened to the buildings that made them the "ruins". Fire I suspect?
You can see in that photo the building that now houses the kayak shed, and maybe the billboard that used to be beside it. The billboard was just removed about 5 years ago.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by spinsur

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:59 -0700

I think springhouse is in the background of the "west" photo.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by Jill Stanford

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45 -0700

My Grandfather, A.W. Peters and friends started the distillery. I don't know the year but I could look it up in his diaries. I remember seeing it as a small girl on a visit. Looking down the elevator shaft was scary.The war caused the failure of the enterprise -- they were WAY ahead of their times, however.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by spinsur

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:05 -0700

"A. Eng'r's Pump" may refer to Army Corps of Engineers, there's an extensive system of storm drainage and pumps put in by the Corps sometime after Bonneville to control subsurface water through the photo area, and down on the port area.

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by Rawhyde

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:57 -0700

In the West photograph, is that the Springhouse Cellars building during construction or what's left of "the ruins"?

New comment on 'Industrial Panorama' by Rawhyde

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:53 -0700

Does anyone know the name of that "Distillery and Winery"?? I didn't know that the Hood River wine roots went so far back.

New comment on 'Irrigation Flume, 1910' by l.e.

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17 -0700

I assume I have the right area:
From a history:
"The beginning of the open canal and current project area issues from two parallel, 48- inch diameter steel pipes supported
by a steel trestle, which spans the Hood River. The trestle, known as High Bridge, was constructed circa 1964. The trestle originally supported a wooden flume which was replaced by pipe in 2004. Once on the north side of the river, the canal traverses a
steep slope and cuts intermittently through basalt bedrock formations"......

It was thought that Chinese workers had built the tunnel through the bedrock, but....

"A newspaper article recently discovered in archived files in the procession of F.I.D. indicates that the tunnel was constructed by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) personnel. Per the article, the tunnel was completed on March 23, 1934..."

New comment on 'Irrigation Flume, 1910' by Dan

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:57 -0700

Now days the flume doesn't go around the outside of the that bluff. Mr. Davenport hired labors to come in and chisel a canal through the bluff.