WMA
Conference - A BIG Hit with Board Members
On
June 12-14, four board members attended the Washington Museum Association’s
annual conference held at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport,
Washington.
Jackie Davis, Kathy Jaquet, Lee Marriott and Kelly Calhoun spent those
three days learning about many aspects of operating a museum. The subjects
included: grant writing, the annual report, inventory software, public
relations, museum and library partnerships, getting your local politicians
on your side, preserving local history, getting education kits into
classrooms, and care of recordings and digital information. In addition
to the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, the board also visited the
Suquamish Museum, Kitsap County, and the Bremerton Naval Museum. The
various displays were impressive and gave the board ideas on how to
best display our North Beach artifacts.
The board thanks the members who approved this expenditure at our annual
meeting last June. Next year’s WMA conference will be in Spokane.
Northern
Pacific Railway Depot
Thanks
to a chance situation recently in Ocean Shores, Kelly Calhoun had
the pleasure of meeting a member of the Northern Pacific Railway
Historical Society. Norm Snow of Ocean Shores, shared his knowledge
of the old time engines, passenger cars and depots. Turns out Norm
is a great source of information! He was able to narrow down dates
of old photos by the types of engines used on the Moclips run.
Norm is just as excitedabout our plan to rebuild the NP depot in
Moclips as we are! He found copies of the “Standard Plans” used
by the NP for their depot designs. Included were the dimensions as
well as the cornice pieces used to hold up the eaves of the building.
Norm also clued us in as to the original colors of all Northern Pacific
depots prior to 1920 - Indian red with Bottle green trim. He also gave
photos of the depot which he had copied. He has forwarded them to the
historical society in Minnesota in hopes they have the original plans
for this exact building.
Norm is planning to build a scale model of the NP Railway in Moclips.
This is a super idea. We offer whatever assistance he may need from
us.
We
are one BIG step closer to realizing a new train depot in Moclips!
On July 16, Norm Snow brought us the actual, original 1903 - 1905 blueprints
of the Moclips Northern Pacific Depot!!
Norm attended the NP Convention in Portland since we last saw him.
He ran into Jim Fredericksen of Tacoma, a big Northern Pacific RR buff.
Jim had the blueprints of the Moclips Depot and has loaned them to
Norm. He has had copies made for us. One set will be sent with our
grant letter. What luck! We were sure these items had been lost forever.
We never anticipated finding them - and so quickly!
Thank You Norm Snow and Jim Fredrickson for coming through!
Where
oh Where is the Moclips Museum?
We’ve
checked the beach, the woods and along the Moclips River. Low and
behold, we found a bunch of museum artifacts stored in a trunk
in our closet!
As some of you know, the temporary museum for Moclips-By-The-Sea was
to be in a sectioned off room of Kathy Jaquet’s warehouse on Pacific
Avenue in Moclips. Work had already begun to clean it out and prepare
it for sheetrock.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kathy will be unable to donate this
space.
In light of this development, we began searching alternative sites.
We struck out on our second location, the old Moclips School. The 1920’s
building is currently being used. We looked into the old tavern and
other places. Then, on July 18, the Ocean Crest in Moclips offered
their first floor space at what used to be Hewitt’s
Grocery store! It will take some work but it will be a nice location
for our brand new museum. THANK YOU Ocean Crest Resort!!!
After September, we will be organizing a work party. Notices will be
sent out with details. If you can help with drywall or painting, please
contact a board member. THANKS!
Gems
and Gemstones
Your
membership dollars go into our general fund that helps pay for
printing our newsletter and other mailings in addition to postage.
We rely on donations to help with museum costs and acquisitions.
You can specify where
your cash donations go.
Mary Christiansen made a cash donation for help with our postage in
June as did Bev Callaway in July. Eloise Hanson, Marian Vidonis, Yvonne
Knudson, Harold & Mary Schmidtke,
Chuck Fink and Phil Webber sent contributions in addition to their
membership renewals.
THANK YOU ALL!
Pacific
Beach Mystery Solved, or is it?
Recently,
the Wacky Warehouse in Pacific Beach donated a great postcard of
a large building sitting atop the bluff in what appeared to be
Pacific Beach.
We
were able to confirm this when we found and won an identical postcard
off the internet auction site, eBay. This “new” card
was postmarked 1909 and is titled, “QUINAULT INN, Pacific
Beach, Wash”. We had never heard of this hotel before and
thought this was an early one built before the PB Hotel. In fact,
we had read that a hotel had burned in Pacific Beach at about this
time. By looking at the photo, it appears that the Northern Pacific
right-of-way down to the beach is to the south of this building,
not north as it was with the Pacific Beach Hotel.
But on further examination, we have noticed that the roof lines, the
east and west dormers and the top floor windows match the Pacific Beach
Hotel in its early days! Now we are REALLY confused!
If
you have any information or come across any on the Quinault Inn
or if you know exactly when the Pacific Beach Hotel was first built,
please contact a research committee member.
From
One Museum to Another
One
day several months ago, Kathy Jaquet and Kelly Calhoun made a shopping
trip to the Polson Museum in Hoquiam. They found many vintage photos
of Moclips. John Larson of the Polson had copies made for Moclips-By-The-Sea
at a very reasonable price. Some of these images include the Moclips
Livery Stable, street scenes, wrecked houses, the Moclips Beach
Hotel, etc. The Polson has given us permission to enlarge these
photos. They will be on display in the museum.
Search
and Research
We
have an old map that shows the land at Pt. Grenville as being reserved
for a lighthouse. Some people remember a lighthouse but others
do not. There was a Coast Guard station there (we have some photos
of it) but was there a real bonafide lighthouse? If you know for
sure, please contact a research committee
member. Thanks!
Tell
us a Story
Three
MBTS members sent us written memories of their experiences on the
North Beach. These are wonderful stories that must be treasured.
Last December at their meeting in Ocean City, the North Beach Historical
Society passed out requests for their members to write out their memories
of the North Beach. As they told their membership, “We are ALL
pioneers”.
We ask you to please take a few minutes and do the same.
New
Donated Items - THANK YOU!
Ooops!
We ran out of room in the last newsletter but we intended to thank
Eloise Hanson for donating two full scrapbooks of photos. They
are of Moclips, Pacific Beach and the Quinault Nation. These are
SUPER images!
Bev Callaway donated a small Quinault basket. Her father, Nate Dyer, “was
on the beach at Moclips one day, probably in the 40s. He came upon
this old Indian lady who was busy weaving a tiny little basket. He
stopped to chat and watch her intricate work. She gave the basket to
him.”
Del Schebor donated a nice copy of Lady on The Beach, by Norah Berg.
It even has the dust jacket!
Dolores’ Antiques donated four menus from the Ocean Shores Inn.
William
P. White donated 3 great old postcards of Moclips and Pacific Beach.
These will be enlarged for the museum.
Jim and Vicky Sleasman of Alaska, donated 32 photos of the staff and
student body of the old Moclips School. They were taken in the 1940’s
by Vicky’s great uncle, Leo Oestreicher of Leo’s Studio in
Spokane. He took school photos around the state of Washington.
Roy Tottie gave us an 8-1/2” x 30” panoramic photo of the
1936 M.R. Smith Mill crew. It pictures 29 men including Roy. He also
provided the names of the crew!
Bob Lee of Ocean Shores dropped off two chunks of anthracite coal which
had been found on the beach in Copalis in April of 1995. These are
believed to
be from an 1892 shipwreck, The Ferndale, a British Barque.
Jai D’Antoni of The North Coast News brought us a 1989 article
about the Lycan family reunion in Moclips.
Ludwig & Lois Mayers gave us a 10 year stack of Ocean Observer
newspapers starting with the first issue in 1964, six Pat Boone Celebrity
Golf programs from 1966 to 1971 and brochures circa 1964.
The Green Lantern donated a souvenir from the R & S (Resor & Swope
) Tavern in Moclips.
Jim & Patti Courtright gave us 2 maps of Moclips from 1909 and
1932.
Donated artifacts will be on permanent display.
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