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Issue 2 Volume 3

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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