Junior outside hitter Stephanie Logan spikes a ball
against OSU in Bohler Gym on Nov. 6, 2014. Photo by
Ryan Pearce, WSU Daily Evergreen
Monday, November 15, 2010
Story about Pullman history photo book in Moscow-Pullman Daily News
http://www.dnews.com/story/Slice/57049
Moscow-Pullman Daily News - DNews.com
HISTORY REPEATED: New book gives a glimpse into Pullman's past
By Brandon Macz
Moscow Pullman Daily News
November 13, 2010
When I started as the Slice of Life editor for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, my predecessor was long gone, which meant getting the lay of the land through old issues of the paper. There were menus, lists, columns, etc. And then there were these old, black-and-white photos that, at first glance, seemed out of place in a newspaper where current events were its bread-and-butter.
But let's remember that the old expression, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, while great for use in political rhetoric, has an evil cousin - those who forget the past will eventually be it. The world keeps spinning and too often the past is demolished to make way for the future.
But these "pictures of the past" encapsulate the memories that should not be paved over. That's why I was happy to have the book, "Images of America: Pullman," by Robert Luedeking and the Whitman County Historical Society, dropped in my lap, compliment of Arcadia Publishing.
The book is takes a chronological look at the history of Pullman through 222 photographs of the community from past to present with detailed descriptions of the people and places frozen in these black-and-white moments that all add up to the here-and-now.
The Daily News published many photos Luedeking dug up from archives from the Whitman County Historical Society's Esther Pond Smith Collection until others took his place upon his death last year. Though I was not lucky enough to meet Mr. Luedeking - so I will not make assumptions - my city editor, Murf Raquet, told me this former WSU professor would bring these photos into the newsroom no matter the weather, in "rain, snow or shine."
"He had a single-minded determination to get those photos here," Raquet said. I now receive pictures of the past through e-mail, and Ed Garretson provides me with my Whitman County fix. In a recent e-mail from Ed, he alluded to the throughness of Luedeking's work as a historian. "He so wanted it right," his e-mail states, "correct in expression and in fact."
"Pullman" is set to be released for sale on Monday, and if you like the pictures of the past that run every Saturday in the Slice of Life, imagine 222 of them in one package. I like to compare it to old cartoons, when a squirrel is trying to get a nut, gets fed up, kicks the tree, and is suddenly hit with the entire bounty. No doubt I will have plenty of ideas for history columns to come.
The cover to the book is from 1909 and was found by Luedeking in the Pullman Herald and published in the Daily News on March 4, 2000. It shows Pullman's entire fleet of automobiles - 15 - in a parade. A photographer had been scheduled to document this then-historic event.
There are so many photographs like this that really illustrate a point so many, I guess you would call them "whippersnappers," seem to forget. There was a time when people weren't born with iPods in their ears or an Internet to reference everything from politics to the newest, Youtube disaster. It was a time when kids played outside and the community was bonded by the simple fact that entertainment wasn't compiled onto a center in people's livingrooms.
The world as we know it was built on the backs and with the blood of people we so often forget to remember, and I commend Luedeking and those that will follow him for preserving pieces of that history by bringing these photos and their histories to light.
So, for those young people - who I'm sure pore over this column every chance they get - listen when grandpa or grandma want to tell you a story about the good'ol days. It might just help you appreciate what you have now and think about how outdated the present will be in the future if you don't.
Brandon Macz is the Slice of Life editor for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
"Images of America: Pullman," by Robert Luedeking and the Whitman County Historical Society
Arcadia Publishing
$21.99
Available at local retailers, online bookstores or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)313-2665 or at www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News - DNews.com
HISTORY REPEATED: New book gives a glimpse into Pullman's past
By Brandon Macz
Moscow Pullman Daily News
November 13, 2010
When I started as the Slice of Life editor for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, my predecessor was long gone, which meant getting the lay of the land through old issues of the paper. There were menus, lists, columns, etc. And then there were these old, black-and-white photos that, at first glance, seemed out of place in a newspaper where current events were its bread-and-butter.
But let's remember that the old expression, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, while great for use in political rhetoric, has an evil cousin - those who forget the past will eventually be it. The world keeps spinning and too often the past is demolished to make way for the future.
But these "pictures of the past" encapsulate the memories that should not be paved over. That's why I was happy to have the book, "Images of America: Pullman," by Robert Luedeking and the Whitman County Historical Society, dropped in my lap, compliment of Arcadia Publishing.
The book is takes a chronological look at the history of Pullman through 222 photographs of the community from past to present with detailed descriptions of the people and places frozen in these black-and-white moments that all add up to the here-and-now.
The Daily News published many photos Luedeking dug up from archives from the Whitman County Historical Society's Esther Pond Smith Collection until others took his place upon his death last year. Though I was not lucky enough to meet Mr. Luedeking - so I will not make assumptions - my city editor, Murf Raquet, told me this former WSU professor would bring these photos into the newsroom no matter the weather, in "rain, snow or shine."
"He had a single-minded determination to get those photos here," Raquet said. I now receive pictures of the past through e-mail, and Ed Garretson provides me with my Whitman County fix. In a recent e-mail from Ed, he alluded to the throughness of Luedeking's work as a historian. "He so wanted it right," his e-mail states, "correct in expression and in fact."
"Pullman" is set to be released for sale on Monday, and if you like the pictures of the past that run every Saturday in the Slice of Life, imagine 222 of them in one package. I like to compare it to old cartoons, when a squirrel is trying to get a nut, gets fed up, kicks the tree, and is suddenly hit with the entire bounty. No doubt I will have plenty of ideas for history columns to come.
The cover to the book is from 1909 and was found by Luedeking in the Pullman Herald and published in the Daily News on March 4, 2000. It shows Pullman's entire fleet of automobiles - 15 - in a parade. A photographer had been scheduled to document this then-historic event.
There are so many photographs like this that really illustrate a point so many, I guess you would call them "whippersnappers," seem to forget. There was a time when people weren't born with iPods in their ears or an Internet to reference everything from politics to the newest, Youtube disaster. It was a time when kids played outside and the community was bonded by the simple fact that entertainment wasn't compiled onto a center in people's livingrooms.
The world as we know it was built on the backs and with the blood of people we so often forget to remember, and I commend Luedeking and those that will follow him for preserving pieces of that history by bringing these photos and their histories to light.
So, for those young people - who I'm sure pore over this column every chance they get - listen when grandpa or grandma want to tell you a story about the good'ol days. It might just help you appreciate what you have now and think about how outdated the present will be in the future if you don't.
Brandon Macz is the Slice of Life editor for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
"Images of America: Pullman," by Robert Luedeking and the Whitman County Historical Society
Arcadia Publishing
$21.99
Available at local retailers, online bookstores or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)313-2665 or at www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Friday, November 12, 2010
New Pullman history photo book thanks to Whitman County Historical Society collection and research
Ed Garretson signs a copy of the book at the Bookieon Dec. 3, 2010, in this photo by Tim Marsh of WSU Today.
From Whitman County Gazette, Colfax, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, with a slight bit of editing.
Historical society collection, research turns out new Pullman photo book
A new book featuring 127 pages of Pullman and Washington State University photos has been produced by Arcadia Publishing as part of their Images of America series. Set for release next week, the book evolved from the work of the late Robert Luedeking and members of the Whitman County Historical Society.
Luedeking, who died in October of 2009 at the age of 85, served as a professor of chemical engineering at Washington State University for more than 25 years before he retired in 1981. Among his community interests was active membership in the historical society.
Luedeking became involved in researching photos in the society’s archives at the Gladish Community Center. He normally went down to Gladish on Wednesdays and spent hours researching the background of a photo for a series of pictures which ran in the Moscow Pullman Daily News.
Historical society collection, research turns out new Pullman photo book
A new book featuring 127 pages of Pullman and Washington State University photos has been produced by Arcadia Publishing as part of their Images of America series. Set for release next week, the book evolved from the work of the late Robert Luedeking and members of the Whitman County Historical Society.
Luedeking, who died in October of 2009 at the age of 85, served as a professor of chemical engineering at Washington State University for more than 25 years before he retired in 1981. Among his community interests was active membership in the historical society.
Luedeking became involved in researching photos in the society’s archives at the Gladish Community Center. He normally went down to Gladish on Wednesdays and spent hours researching the background of a photo for a series of pictures which ran in the Moscow Pullman Daily News.
Ed Garretson of Uniontown, editor of the society’s Bunchgrass Historian, said Luedeking was very meticulous to getting all the details correct for each photo he submitted for the newspaper series.
Garretson said many of the photos came from the estate of the late Esther Pond Smith who acquired a massive collection of photos of Pullman and the Palouse. Her collection eventually wound up at the society’s archives.
Arcadia Publishing, which was launched in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993, has become the largest publisher of local and regional history books in North America.
Representatives of the company have made contact with the society and others about doing a book on Pullman. Garretson said the society began negotiations with Arcadia’s Northwest editor to get out a Pullman book in the weeks after Luedeking’s death.
A contract was assigned last December and a team of WCHS volunteer researchers went to work to prepare the book and send it off before the March 15 deadline this year.
Monica Peters of the Whitman County Genealogical Society, Tim Marsh of WSU University Relations (WSU Today) and Pullman native Robert King, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, but researches and writes about his home area's history, and Garretson assembled photos and captions for the book. Peters and King are WSU graduates.
The book’s cover features a photo of a 1909 automotive parade which followed the purchase of a new Stoddard-Dayton car by banker James S. Klemgard. Pullman at that time had 15 automobiles, and the parade was conducted to welcome Prof. E.K. Knapp of Chicago, one of the country’s most noted Sunday School teachers.
Garretson said the contract with Arcadia called for the society to prepare all the copy for the book and receive an eight percent share of the publisher’s sales. Arcadia covered production and distribution costs.
One of Garretson’s favorite photos is a depiction of former U.S. President Taft receiving a trophy from freshman Catherine Mathews (Friel) during a 1920 visit to the campus. The silver cup for the presentation had hastily been borrowed from the WSC agriculture department.
Arcadia plans to have the book available at all area book stores by Monday.
Garretson said many of the photos came from the estate of the late Esther Pond Smith who acquired a massive collection of photos of Pullman and the Palouse. Her collection eventually wound up at the society’s archives.
Arcadia Publishing, which was launched in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993, has become the largest publisher of local and regional history books in North America.
Representatives of the company have made contact with the society and others about doing a book on Pullman. Garretson said the society began negotiations with Arcadia’s Northwest editor to get out a Pullman book in the weeks after Luedeking’s death.
A contract was assigned last December and a team of WCHS volunteer researchers went to work to prepare the book and send it off before the March 15 deadline this year.
Monica Peters of the Whitman County Genealogical Society, Tim Marsh of WSU University Relations (WSU Today) and Pullman native Robert King, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, but researches and writes about his home area's history, and Garretson assembled photos and captions for the book. Peters and King are WSU graduates.
The book’s cover features a photo of a 1909 automotive parade which followed the purchase of a new Stoddard-Dayton car by banker James S. Klemgard. Pullman at that time had 15 automobiles, and the parade was conducted to welcome Prof. E.K. Knapp of Chicago, one of the country’s most noted Sunday School teachers.
Garretson said the contract with Arcadia called for the society to prepare all the copy for the book and receive an eight percent share of the publisher’s sales. Arcadia covered production and distribution costs.
One of Garretson’s favorite photos is a depiction of former U.S. President Taft receiving a trophy from freshman Catherine Mathews (Friel) during a 1920 visit to the campus. The silver cup for the presentation had hastily been borrowed from the WSC agriculture department.
Arcadia plans to have the book available at all area book stores by Monday.
Monday, November 8, 2010
New ideas for Colton silo
Note: Colton is about 15 miles south of Pullman
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Framing the sky: WSU master's students research, propose new ideas for Colton grain silo
By Christina Lords
Moscow Pullman Daily News
November 8, 2010
About 130,000 nails reinforce hundreds of 2-by-4s in a worn grain silo in Colton.
When it was functional, the silo could store 60,000 bushels of grain, said owner Jim Dahmen. Now, open to the sky, it envelops nothing but air.
Its raw exterior exhibits signs of forgotten white paint, but for the most part, its stripped exterior is a defiant testament to its 50-year affront from the Palouse's elements.
The silo has been the subject of a master's architecture class taught by Washington State University associate professor Taiji Miyasaka.
An exhibition held Sunday afternoon outlined the work of 18 architecture graduate students who began researching the grain silo in August.
The compiled information, which includes interviews with Colton residents, maps of the quality of the structure and analysis of its materials, addresses the silo's past, present and future, said WSU master's student Rachel Doherty.
"We had students do I-don't-know-how-many interviews with people in Colton to see what they thought of the silo or if they knew its history," she said. "A lot of them said, from farmer's perspective, that if it doesn't work anymore, then it needs to be torn down or they don't need it. But there's some real beauty here."
The rhythm of the woodwork and the silo's opening, which used to be covered by a grain elevator, gives an unusual perspective and framework of the sky, she said.
Students were able to focus their efforts on how to improve different aspects of the silo, such as the
interior, exterior or entrance, Doherty said.
Two of the graduate students, Bobby Olsen and Jon Follett, set up a camera to capture photographs of the sky from inside the silo every 30 seconds during the day and every 40 seconds at night.
The movie is made up of 2,646 photos and was shot in September. Viewers can see cloud formations roll by and rotating constellations at night.
Some aspects of the students' project are already being implemented, such as the construction of chairs at varying inclinations in the silo to view the sky and a proposal to purchase a 5-foot by 3,500-foot strip of fabric to connect Highway 195 to the silo.
The fabric, which is the same material used to protect hay bales, should be put into place sometime this month, Doherty said.
"We're not necessarily trying to save the silo, but we are trying to create a theme of awareness of this place," she said.
One proposal for the silo would tear it down and reconstruct it as a gathering place for a WSU museum on campus near Martin Stadium, Miyasaka said.
History repeats itself at 970 S. Grande Ave., Pullman
**THE YEAR 2010 IN NOVEMBER ***
Story about driver’s test…vehicle crashes into front door of Largent's Pullman Appliance , 970 S. Grand Ave, Pullman etc.
**THE YEAR 1991 IN JANUARY***
http://www.lmtribune.com/archived-story/News/25961/
SEVERAL INJURED AS CAR CRASHES INTO PULLMAN VIDEO STORE
Sunday, January 13, 1991, Lewiston Trib
PULLMAN --Ten people were injured when a car accidently struck the front of Empire Video rental, S. 970 Grand at Pullman Saturday afternoon.
Florence L. Kingrey, 67, of Pullman was driving a 1990 Accura Integra when the vehicle drove through the glass-windowed storefront, the Pullman Police Department reported.
The car hit several racks of rental videos before it came to rest at the back of the store. Customers were in the store at the time and nine people were injured. Two customers were hit by the front of the car and the rest were hit by flying debris, according to the police report.
The driver of the car was not injured but a passenger in the car, Richard Kingrey was taken to Pullman Memorial Hospital for observation and was later released.
Carol A. Wilson of Pullman and Cathy Wilson of Palouse, Wash. were struck by the front of the car. Carol Wilson has a broken right leg and Cathy Wilson received bruises on the left hip and both legs.
Others in the store were injured by flying debris and they were: Shelly A. Wilson of Palouse who received bruises to the left ankle; Erin M. Bowman of Pullman received a cut lip, a cut on the right wrist, swollen right knee and bruises on both arms and legs; April M. Bowman of Pullman was cut on the left wrist; Gregory A. Beckman Jr. of Pullman received minor cuts and bruises on both legs and face; Catherine G. Lower of Wenatchee, Wash. received cuts and bruises on both legs and Michael D. Evans of Pullman received a bump on the back of the head.
Allen D. Evans and Tammy M. Bowman, both of Pullman were in the store at the time of the accident but were not injured.
The damage to the building was estimated at $20,000 and the car received $3,000 damage, Pullman police said.
The accident is still under investigation by officer Sam Sorem of the PPD.
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