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CAMERAS RECORD HISTORY
Pictures Contrast Salem of
Sixty Years Ago and Now
By Ben Maxwell
Sixty odd years ago, when East school (now the abandoned
Washington) was new, a photographer with a heavy view camera
trudged to the roof of the structure to record the northerly vista
of Salem on a glass plate now in -the Cronise collection.
That splendid landscape, when compared with another recently
made from the same location-
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Views Made Sixty Years Apart Show Salem's Expansion
Top: Photograph made from roof of Washington school in
the late 1880s showing Salmon Brown's home in the fore
ground and the undeveloped area to the northward. Eli Stege's
house alone appears on D street and Market street was yet a
country road. Below: Recent view from the same location
and in the same direction showing northerly development of
Salem during six decades.
Four Corners Brownie Troop
Makes Dolls for Children
Four Corners, Dec. 13 Brownie troop 107 held their meeting
after school with 19 girls present. Sixteen dolls were completed
to be given to under privileged children. Patricia Anne Backe,
4410 Hudson avenue, became a new member. Visitors for the day
were Myra Wilson, Patty Etzel arid Joanna Weekly. . There will
be no ittownie meeting tms
week.
The Christmas party will be
after school December 19 at
the Lincoln school. There will
be a gift exchange. Each girl
is to bring a small gift. Host
esses for the day were Sharon
Dillard and Leta Thayer.
House guest in the LeBarron
Force home for two weeks was
Mrs. Toppleton of Denver, Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Shrake
and children Janice, Dick and
Gregg drove to Gates, Ore.,
Sunday to visit the Charles
Tucker family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Prock and
family who formerly lived here
have returned after spending
several months in Burns, Ore.
Marvin Benz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Benz, Mahrt avenue,
has recovered from serious burns
received recently sufficiently to
return to his classes but is not
yet able to take his bicycle pa
per route.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Ander
son had as their house guests
this week Mrs. Anderson's bro
ther and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Dickson of Orando.
Wash. The Dickson's were en
route to Santa Cruz, Calif,
where they will spend the winter.
Main Transmission
Power Lines Fail
Portland, Ore., Dec. 12. (U.R)
Bonneville power engineers said
a mysterious failure of three
major transmission lines Sun
day cut electricity to lower
Columbia river aluminum plants
and Southwestern Washington.
The three lines were North
Bonneville - Midawy, Chehalis
Longview and Chehalis-Coving-ton.
The blackout lasted 11 minutes.
Although, most people in the
Middle Ages thought the earth
was flat, Eratosthenes, who lived
2,200 years ago, taught that it
was round.
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and approximately in the same
direction, is a revelation of Sa
lem' expansion during six dec
ades. 4 1
Marion County Pictorial An
nual for 1886 gave the popula
tion of Salem as about 6000. In
mates of state institutions were
doubtless included in the esti
mate. The early view from the
roof of East school does not sug
gest any congestion of popula
tion tdthe northward.
In the immediate foreground
facing Marion street, and flank
ed by a wooden fence, is an old
dwelling that then stood near
the center of the block. Some
decades ago this structure was
moved and in the recent view
stands to the right and behind
more modern houses.
Here during the 1890s, and
perhaps even when the first pic
ture was made, resided Salmon
Brown with his sizeable family.
Salmon was the second son of
John Brown who, in 1859, was
hanged for his raid on the arsen
al at Harper's Ferry, and whose
body "lies a mouldering in the
grave." Salmon Brown conduct
ed a meat market at 13 th and
Center streets where the Nazar
ene church now stands. He was
not distinguished on account of
a generous prosperity.
North Mill creek flowed be
hind Brown's house and ample
vegetable garden in what is ap
proximately its present channel.
Shown in the old view is a pool
between the house and barn
where two generations of Salem
oldsters learned the dog stroke
and called their swimming pool
the "Live." Here in the 1880s
and 1890's the boys went swim
ming in the raw to the amuse
ment or amazement of passen
gers on trains creeping across
a nearby trestle.
Beyond, on D street adjacent
to the railroad, was a single
house then or later the dwelling
A helicopter survey Friday
failed to show why the same
lines failed that day. Engineers
thought wind or falling tree
branches could have caused tem
porary short circuits.
of Eli Stege, a section foreman
of long standing. This home was
dismantled a decade or so ago
and the large conifer that now
marks the approximate site is
not even visible in the older pic
ture. Beyond was a county road
that has since become Market
street. Jn the 1880s this locality
was a farming region and the
toot of the threshing engine was
heard hereabouts even in the
first decade of the present cen
tury. Beyond and distantly are the
fairgrounds and what appears to
be the judges box or bandstand
in Lone Oak track.
Sixty years has brought the
transformation indicated in the
recent photograph.
Houses in the foreground with
their appurtenances extend to
Mill creek now obscured by 20th
century construction. North of
the creek is the municipal play
ground and its swimming pool.
And there are among those of
an older generation people who
presume to doubt that supervis
ed youngsters swimming in
chemically purified water have
any more fun than boys of three
generations ago who raided Sal
mon Brown's garden and dis
ported themselves in the Live
during the 1890s.
Beyond the confines that were
D. G. Murray's cow pasture in
1910 is the modern high school,
and behind this an athletic field
well populated by frogs and an
occasional wild duck during the
wet autumn in those bygone
times.
As the landscape stretches
northward are chimneys of to
day s industries, where an at
mospheric haze caused by their
production obscures vision short
of the fair grounds.
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