Back
to the Future
By now you have received your membership
materials. Included was the ambitious idea of rebuilding the Northern
Pacific Railroad Depot. This plot of land is currently owned by the
State Parks department. Hopefully, we will be able to contact the right
person to see about leasing this section between 4th and 5th off Railroad
Avenue. One dollar per year sounds good!
If you can help us with information on how to proceed or if you have
the time and resources to assist in contacting the state, please let
us know.
Did
you know?
The first known footprints imprinted upon the sands of Moclips were those
of the Quinault Indians. While their main village was farther north,
they maintained a small settlement along the Moclips River. Indeed the
Moclips name can be traced to this origin. Hunting and fishing being
so abundant in the Quinault territory there was no need to travel far
to obtain food. They did not need the travel quality that tee-pees offered.
Instead they built wooden
structures commonly referred to as long houses. While early information
written by outsiders were generally negative in their rendering, not
so the reports in the original Moclips Wave. Editor, Charley Gant praised
the natives as industrious individuals.
Celebrations put on by the merchants of Moclips included the Quinaults.
Their skills in canoe racing and canoe surfing were highly appreciated.
-Kathy Jaquet
Moclips,
The Book
Kathy
Jaquet, our resident artist/author, is hard at work on her book.
Member generated interest has expressed extending the timeline from
the 1920’s up to the present (originally, the book was to end
in the 1920’s). There are a lot of stories in newspapers up
to about 1915 - information after this time is coming by word of
mouth.
We have heard some interesting and colorful incidents that occurred after
the 1920’s and want to include those stories from those times as
well.
We need to talk to those folks who can relate to events from this time
period to the present. Anyone with stories or information are requested
to send them to barnacle@olynet.com or
PO Box 231, Moclips, WA 98562. If you would like to be on
the reserve list for this book, please let us know. A future edition
of the MOCLIPS OCEAN WAVE will announce the books’ completion.
Kelper's
Festival
Thanks
to the North Beach Business Association and the Sand Dollar Inn,
we were
able to have a display at the Kelper’s Festival on Labor Day weekend.
They
generously offered space in their booth where we handed out our June
newsletter and
displayed vintage photographs. THANKS!
How To Contact Us
In addition to
the donated Moclips and North Beach items listed on the back page
of this newsletter, Moclips-By-The-Sea has received other donations
to assist the organization. Those include office supplies, postage
and the use of an HP Deskjet
printer. We want to thank the BARNACLE MOTEL and SYNCHRONICITY STAINED
GLASS for the above donations!
If you have similar items to donate or services to offer, we won’t
turn you down!
THANKS!
Ooops!
Where would a newsletter be without a
CORRECTION section? We misspelled the following names in the first edition
of the
MOCLIPS OCEAN WAVE:
VIRGINIA NORDMAN
BEVERLY (DYER) CALLAWAY
PLEASE accept our sincere apologies.
Cyber-Space
Kelly Cline, the superb webmaster at ww.pacificbeachwa.com, has done
an AWESOME job for MOCLIPS-BY-THE-SEA! In addition to several vintage
Moclips photos, he has uploaded our newsletter and application form.
Considering what he had to work with, he was able to put these items
on the website and make them all look
good! We have already received “hits” from as far away as Florida!
Thank you Kelly for an outstanding job!
Go to: http://www.pacificbeachwa.com/
Centennial
Celebration
Linda Scott provided the following ideas on how to celebrate the 100th
birthday of Moclips:
Display of carriages, horse & buggy rides, serve lunch from the original
hotel menu, everyone dress in appropriate attire, host an evening costume
ball, use old barbershop
as photo backdrop. Other ideas: Surf riders from the Quinault Indian
Nation, dugout canoe demonstrations.
We need to determine when the celebration should be. Do we tie it in
with another North Beach function or select a time just for Moclips?
Either way, the entire North
Beach will benefit. Your input is appreciated! Give us your opinion.
Meetings
We
have had several executive board meetings to discuss pressing, time-sensitive
issues. We feel that our general meetings should be twice a year,
but when? Would
evenings be better? Weekends or weekdays? In the middle of the month?
Please let us know what is best for you by calling, writing or sending
an email. Current topics for discussion:
Drafting by-laws, incorporation, officer term limits, bank account balance & forming
committees.
Committees
The
following members have offered to help:
HISTORY & RESEARCH - Harold & Mary
Schmidtke, Florence Miles
MURAL & MODEL - Lee Marriott, Kathy Jaquet
WRITING - Bev Callaway, Virginia Nordman
PLANNING - Jim & Gail Gage, Harold & Mary Schmidtke, Edward & Marge
Lycan,
Sand Dollar Inn, Virginia & Arvid Nordman, Katie Detrick, Bill & Eleanor
Ward, Kelly
Calhoun, Ocean Crest Resort, Marilyn Cardoza, Steve Pomeroy, Patti & Jim
Courtright
INTERVIEWS - Gail Gage, Edward & Marge Lycan, Kathy Jaquet, Roy Tottie,
Katie
Detrick, Marilyn Cardoza, Patti & Jim Courtright
MISC ASSISTANCE: Gail Gage, Katie Detrick
We will get everyone together by committee whether in
person, phone or email to establish a plan of attack. THANK YOU!
Museum
The temporary location for the Moclips (North Beach) Museum is in what
used to be an office in a large building near the beach. It is on private
property owned by Kathy Jaquet. Work will begin in September to improve
access and make this area secure.
We still feel that wherever the museum winds up permanently, that it
should be a NORTH BEACH museum to include all artifacts, photos and such
from all communities on the North Beach including: Ocean Shores, Ocean
City, Copalis Beach, Copalis
Crossing, Carlisle, Aloha, Pacific Beach, and Taholah.
In addition to the North Beach items acquired (as mentioned in the last
newsletter), there are salt & pepper shakers from the Ocean Shores
Inn, a mid-sixties souvenir plate from Ocean Shores, a canning label
from Ocean City, a brochure from the Pacific
Beach Hotel, and LOTS of photos and postcards from all these communities.
Moclips
Artifacts
In
July, we received several strainers and a wood fish box from the
Mohawk Packing
Company. They were donated by the family of Clarence and Lee Pickett.
THANK
YOU!
We also received copies of the first MOCLIPS OCEAN WAVE newspaper from
1909 (6 pages). These copies were donated by Joy & Lila Brown of
the Hi-Tides Resort. THANK YOU!
Mermaid Cove in Ocean Shores did an excellent job of mounting and
laminating them. THANK YOU!
Beverly Callaway donated several newspaper articles from World War II,
1964 and 1976. Also an Ellis aerial view postcard of Moclips from the
late 1940’s or early 1950’s. THANK YOU!
In August, Kathryn Caughey donated many pieces of railroad memorabilia
including an
explanation of the wonderful Northern Pacific logo (see next newsletter).
THANK YOU!
These items will be on display at the museum.
If you have an item to donate/loan let us know!
