Vintage shots from days gone by!

St. Patrick's Catholic School, Pasco, Nov. 11, 1951. My wife worked there as an ESL aide.

 

Pasco Liberty Theater during the depression.

 

I always lived too close to school to use a school bus.

 

June 25, 1950. A low-lying trailer court next door and been almost completely evacuated, Kennewick WA.

 

Wild Bill Groceries and Meats in Island View was feeling the effects of the Columbia River's flooding in June, 1950.
Kennewick, WA.

 

These Rainier Street moppets, if they were expecting to see their street roar as in days of yore during thaws, were somewhat disappointed when this photo was published on Feb. 1963. In previous years, Rainier Street floodwaters, most of which originated in Zintel Canyon, have surged over the sidewalk where the children were standing. The water flow never exceeded by much the level shown here. City crews later replaced the gratings, reopened the street to traffic, and everyone went home. Kennewick, WA.

 

This undated photo slows melting snow flooding a Kennewick street.

 

On Feb. 6, 1956 these two women were preparing to ice skate on the Columbia River at Clover Island. Karen Puthoff perched on the bow of her father's, Mr. Joe Puthoff, boat as he laced up the skates of her friend Marie Kirkendall. They were all from Kennewick.

 

Receiving Tri-Cities Driving Skill Award was Kennewick Police Officer Clifford Morgan. Morgan (wearing hat) earned the hightest score of 70 local policemen taking the defensive driving test. At left was Kennewick Police Chief O. C. "Dutch" Lincoln; at right, State Patrolmen L. L. Hanford and Lee Baughman, who laid out the 1.2-mile course.

 

Many a Tri-City motorist at the time would recognize this photograph, dated Dec. 30, 1959. Drivers awoke to an inch or two of snow that turned roads and highways slick. Pasco, WA.

 

Fallen trees were familiar sights in may parts of the Tri-Cities on Dec. 17, 1961 following a windstorm that reached hurricane force intensities. Workers were shown preparing to move a large tree that was uprooted and felled at the intersection of Margaret Ave. and Norbart St., Pasco.

 

Someone skeptical of the Pasco Chamber of Commerce's slogans braved the 29-degree weather to deliver this frosty message on a windshield when this photo was published on Dec. 20, 1960.

 

When this photo was published on Jan. 22, 1962, ice was thick enough to skate on at Casey Pond in Burbank. From left: Allene and Marrien Sampson, Richland; Tomina Ward, Janice and Bob Brinson, and Wayne and Yvonne Olson, all of Kennewick.

 

Herman James, owner of James' Trailer Court on S. Queen St., Pasco waits with his pickup truck hub deep in water, ready to evacuate the ten families in his court if the East Pasco runoff caused water on his property to rise any higher in this photo published on Feb. 6, 1957. Properties in a 20 block area from the Northern Pacific tracks eastward as far as Elm St. and from A St. north to Lewis were prone to flooding every year as there was no pipe or culvert under the N.P. tracks.

 

Tumbleweeds were on the workorder for May 5, 1966 at the construction site of Country Gardens north of Pasco.
We used to see tumbleweeds blowing across the pain on the way to the Hanford site, some of them were absolutely huge, about six feet tall and you just see this thing bouncing across the plain and over the road, comical really.

 

Pasco patrolman Ron Johnson diplayed a new look in the police department. Helmets for patrolmen are being worn at all times. Capt. Glenn Sickels said police across the country were wearing helmets for protection.

 

The corner of E. Wheeler and N. Glendening streets in Pasco.

 

Pete Reiland and Don Bahl try their boxing gloves in Kennewick on what is now Bruneau Street (then Sycamore Street) in 1950.

 

Pete Reiland, Paul Reiland and Dutch Lincoln. Taken in 1951. Kennewick, WA.

Dutch was the Kennewick police chief from 1951 to 1977.

 

This photo from the early 1950s shows downtown Kennewick.

 

Tumbleweeds stood fence high on this lawn in the 900 block of Garfield Street, Kennewick, on Nov. 19, 1962. Herb Bender, city ctreet crew employee, is shown cleaning out the wind-blown weeds. An open field to the south, site of a former grape vineyard, and gusty winds combined to deluge residents with thousands of the prickly nuisances. They came pouring across 10th Avenue and stacked up against fences, sides of houses, cars and garages.

 

Shown at the time of its gala opening in October 1950 is the Uptown Theatre in Richland.

The Pretty Girl Beaver Valley...holding nothing back.

 

Memorial Day parade in 1957 included cadets from the Civil Air Patrol in Richland.

Specky little geek is out of step!

 

The fire station in Richland on George Washington Way is shown in this 1953 photo.

 

This shot of a Richland neighborhood in February 1944 shows some of the 1,800 prefabricated buildings that were brought to town during World War II to help house the 50,000 workers who built the nuclear reactors and other facilities required for plutonium production. The first nuclear bomb was made from plutonium produced at the Hanford as part of the war effort.

 

I think we should all stop and say a prayer for those that never came home on this day.


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A flight instructor offers tips to an aviation cadet Nov. 2, 1943, at the Pasco Naval Air Station. The pilots assigned to the base, which is now the site of the TriCities Airport, received 84 hours of flying time, including bombing and strafing runs on a practice range in West Richland. Bombing Range Road still bears the wartime name, although the naval station was closed shortly after the war.

 

Workmen installed new street lights on Pasco’s Sylvester and Court streets in this Jan. 31, 1962, photo. The city’s annual PUD bill for street lights was $34,761.

 

The dedication of the new Pasco Library took place April 29, 1962. B.B. Horrigan, pioneer Pasco lawyer, gave the dedication address, flags were presented by the VFW Auxiliary, and music was provided by American Legion Post’s Junior Drum and Bugle Corps.

 

On May 23, 1962, more than a half-inch of rain fell on the Tri-Cities, creating hubcap-deep water on West Court Street in Pasco after obstructed storm drains left up to 8 inches of water on the roadway.