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from my perspective . . . Oh, this is just soooooooooo much fun! Ask a question and the answer comes right back! In yesterday's post, I displayed a photo of what Eb calls 'the Greenview bus' and asked if anyone knew more about it.
This morning bright and early, there was an email from Bob Gydesen in Greenview saying the old bus was run by Bill Palmer's grandfather. He suggested I call Jane Palmer and find out more . . . so I did! We had a delightful conversation and she said yes, indeed, Bert Palmer did run the bus. She said on weekends he would take off the outside cover and take out the seats and use it to haul fertilizer . . . then set it up again for Monday morning school travel! That jogged Eb's memory of having Bert take them to Ft. Jones one time in the bus for vaccinations! Jane is going to look for more old photos in the next month or so. I told her 'when it comes handy' as Grandma used to say . . . as I have a 3 inch thick file of partial stories awaiting the telling! And speaking of buses: This email from Carrie Saunders, Darlene Sheffield's granddaughter, (Bruce and Lorrayne Hurlbut's youngest): "This is an unaltered scan of the original which was printed backwards. My grandma had never noticed it until we pointed it out several years ago when we were scanning some of her high school pictures."
I flipped it for correct viewing just for fun!
And this from Larry Wells on the quandary of one of the men in the Aero Squadron photo: "In the last group photo of the Airmen Club, the tall gentleman in the back with glasses that you had no name for was Jack Young. He was the owner of the Yreka Studio & Camera Shop at that time." It is wonderful to have the readers helping us solve some of these mysteries. Thanks to all! And this surprise from Kathy Finwall Christ: "Thank you so much for this etna news. Rick Finwall is my father Nial's double cousin and Nels Finwall was my grandfather.This is family history I did not know." Soooo, if any of you out there have any photos with Nial or Nels in them, please let me know so we can scan and get them to Kathy. I also mentioned in yesterday's conversation with Mildred Hughes of going to the Siskiyou County Museum in Yreka to take photos of the original cash register from the Denny-Bar Store. Mike Hendryx is an excellent host and guide there. Tom Eller had told me the story of how the items ended up in the Museum. 'Little Doc Eller', as Tom's father was known in his early years here (Hubert Denny Eller) had requested if any fixtures from his grandfather, A. H. Denny's store were to be sold, that he would be given first right to buy them. Along the way however, sale of many of the fixtures was transacted with a sportsman's store in Sun Valley, Idaho. Hubert was somehow able to track and find the fixtures and eventually made a deal with the Idaho store to buy them back. He stored them for awhile and in 1988 donated them to the Siskiyou County Museum.
A 'Denny Bar Company Store' was reconstructed from an implement shed that was already on the Museum grounds and, thankfully, the items continue to be housed for display there as part of the outdoor museum set up.
This is a smaller cash register on display also . . .
This is a one of the cabinets on display . . .
Original
oak cabinet
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Mike, my tour guide, said a woman had bought the Pattern Cabinet at a sale and when she saw the Denny Bar Company Store fixtures, she said, 'The Museum needs these also' . . . and donated them! Now that is exactly how it should be, me thinks. Whoever you are . . . we all thank you immensely. In joy! Che'usa Thanks
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