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Medco trains came to an end in 1959.
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Bill Thomas Community Hall was built in 1955
and 1956.
The fire engine in Butte Falls was a hand cart
parked in a small building in the park across
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Korean War Ending. The U.S. still drafting
people into the army.
Occupations: Forest Service, Medford
Corporation, Gyppo Logging, Ranchers and
others.
Medford Corporation had several small green
houses about two miles above Butte Falls
toward Mt. P itt plus at camp 3 and camp 4 and
some in Butte Falls was the living quarters for
the loggers. The small green houses were
called “ Little Tokyo ” .
Bill Thomas was the woods boss in the early
50's. When he passed away Ed Maloy became
the woods boss.
Medco had several steam locomotives. The
Shays were the power engines which pulled
the logs from the mountains to where the rod
engines picked up the loads and hauled the
logs to Medford. Later Medco had one or two
diesel locomotives.
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The Stanley Swamp became Willow Lake in
1952.
Early 50's Duck Boyd held movies in the park.
Sunday evenings in the summer months.
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Areas around Willow Lake and on Cat Hill
were brush fields.
Saturday nite dances were common.
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Our favorite pastime was pulling and riding a
toboggan int he winer time, either at Camp
2 (old 3 C Camp) or in the streets of Butte
Falls. We could climb through the wood box
to get into the camp 2 building and build a fire
in the stove. Snow usually was about a foot to
two feet deep.
In about 1954 or 55 real bright socks and
rolled up levis was worn. Socks were almost
florescent- chartruse, red, pink etc.
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