Vintage shots from days gone by!

Paul Richmond owned the Hover Block, right, on Kennewick Avenue at Cascade Street when this photo was taken in the 1940s. Vibber’s Drug Store occupied the corner office for many years.

 

Sadie Conway sits on the porch of her home on North Dayton Street on July 4, 1942. In ill health, she couldn’t ride in the Kennewick Fourth of July parade. She died a month later.

 

McDonald’s was selling hamburgers for 15 cents and had its trademark golden arches when Greg Adams came to town in 1963. Today this store at 2541 W. Kennewick Ave. has been extensively remodeled and is a Casa Mia restaurant.

 

The Klittens’ 50-room Kennewick Hotel on the southwest corner of Kennewick Avenue at Cascade Street was Kennewick’s finest for more than 40 years until it burned in 1948. The Bateman Building soon was built on its site.

 

Antique cars were used by Bob Graves, left, and Cork Simmelink to dramatize what they say are Kennewick’s “ancient and narrow” streets. Graves was driving a 1916 Dodge touring car and Simmelink had a 1920 Dodge screenside delivery. Many of Kennewick’s streets were built in the era when these cars were factory new.

 

A vegetable cannery dating back to 1907 served as the offices for the first Tri-City Herald in Kennewick. Remodeled many times, part of the old building was torn down in 2004.

 

Crowds pack downtown sidewalks for the children’s parade during the Kennewick Grape Festival in 1946. The annual event celebrated Concord grape production at a time when Kennewick was still largely an agricultural community.


I don't know, they still grow Concord grapes there, and lots of wineries are there now, quite good too. However, I recall one year there were rotten grapes dumped out by the marshaling yard and it stunk to high heaven for miles.

 

Picture of Main Street, White Bluffs looking east towards the Columbia River. Picture taken 1927.

 

Interior of Fred Gilhuly's White Bluffs Motor Company. Picture taken in 1932.
Let me look it up in the computer....

 

"Smiget" Ferry at White Bluffs, 1935.

 

White Bluffs High School Fire 1942. Picture of the south side where the main entrance used to be after the fire was put out.
I think those girls did it....

 

IGA Store in White Bluffs. Dick and Ida Reierson operated the store from 1927 to July, 1943. The building was moved to this site from Old Town White Bluffs where it was the White Bluffs Mercantile Store.

 

They moved the cemetery...bodies and all???

 

I'm sure the "Panzerkampfwagen Korps" was added as a joke.

Prior to WWII the swastika had a long history of being used positively in many different cultures. What later became the 45th Infantry Division (Thunderbirds) originally used the same swastika that Native American tribes had used for good fortune as their unit insignia until 1939.

 

Yes, it was a joke. The swastika is everywhere in India, SJW's would lose their minds.

 

Yes and Monarchs have the same qualities for Mercury.

 

Truckload of Toads.