RHS Newsletter Oct2011

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History is Happening in redmond • OctOber 2011

REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETYOCTOBER 2011 • NEWSLETTER • VOL. 13 • NO. 8

OUR PURPOSE:tO DiscOver, recOver, Preserve, share anD celebrate reDmOnD’s histOry

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ROtary’s rOOts in reDmOnD

Our town is lucky to have a long tradition of service groups, among

them the Redmond Rotary Club, which has been giving back to the

community—and beyond—since 1971.

Please join us at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center on

Saturday, October 8 when club President Steve Bozick and past PresidentDavid Markley will talk about the chapter’s past, present and future. They’ll

be chronicling the key residents who founded the

club and saw it grow over the years under the

motto “Service Above Sel.”

They’ll also go over examples of Rotary

contributions that have helped make

Redmond a great place to live, work and play

—among them providing funds recently to

restore the picnic shelter at Anderson Park,

seen in the photo above.

The restored

picnic shelter at

Anderon Park

OctOber General meetinG:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH

10:30 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON

Old Redmond Schoolhouse

16600 NE 80th Street



OctOber 2011 • History is Happening in redmond

Thanks to Richard Morris,

our webmaster, we have a cool

Microsoft/Bing map showing the

16 properties landmarked by the

City a decade ago.

From our website homepage

(redmondhistorical society.

org), click on “Places” and you’ll

land on a page that explains thelandmarking and provides a link

to the map.

Earlier this year, the King

County Landmarks Commission

added the properties to its

regional register, making

available nancial incentives for

preservation.

executive bOarD

Chris Himes • President

Miguel Llanos • Senior Vice-PresidentJoe Townsend • Vice-President Finance

John Phillips • Vice-President Collections

Mary Hanson • Secretary

bOarD Of DirectOrs

Nao Hardy

Rosemarie Ives

Judy Aries Lang

Jon Magnussen

Doris SchaiblePatti Simpson Ward

Margaret Evers Wiese

Office manaGer • Monica Park

attOrney • Charles Diesen

Our nances are public record and may

be viewed at the ofce.

free newsletter

If you don't subscribe, please sign up.

Call the ofce at 425.885.2919 or email

[email protected].

State your preference of email or U.S.

Mail. (We prefer email as it's inexpensive

and photos show up better online.)

the reDmOnD recOrDeris published nine times annually.

Miguel Llanos • Editor

Patti Simpson Ward • Art Director

pattisimpsonward.com

2011

MAJORSPONSORS

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What’s new Online?

COVER FEATURE & WHAT’S NEW

1 Rotary’s Roots in Redmond

2 2011 RHS Ofcers & Board

2 What’s New • Online

3 What’s New • Our Collection

RHS NEWS

4 Thank You’s

5 Centennial Quilt

6-7 True Story of a Mid-Century

American Family

8 In Memoriam & Time Capsule

9 Order Now: “Redmond

Refections,” plus Books, Cards

& Gift Ideas from RHS

MEMBERSHIP & CONTACT INFO

10 Lifetimers & September Meeting

11 Membership Form

12 Address & RHS Contact Info

table Of cOntents PAGE




WHAT’S NEWWhat’s new in Our

cOllectiOn?

The Sammamish Slough Racesare a big part of Redmond’s heritage,

and thanks to Arlene Smith, we have

more images for our archives! Those

featured here are from the early

1950s, and Arlene took some herself

as a teenager. Her uncle was the late

Allen “Chick” Zwiefelhofer, who

raced R-47. “He was always crashing

the darn thing,” she recalls. The top

and bottom photos are from Lake

Sammamish, where the race pit was

located. Notice the lack of homes on

the hillsides!

Photos courtesy of Arlene Smith




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THANKYOU TO:

• PATSY ROSENBACH for taking photos at the June picnic and

providing the Society with copies.

• DUANE and JOANN ISACKSON for donating a 1971 Derby Days

bumper sticker and a 1947 Redmond Recorder newspaper.

• ARLENE SMITH for bringing in photos for us to scan and archive.

These include images of the Sammamish Slough Races featured on

page 3 of this newsletter.

• TOM HITZROTH for leading another walking tour season. The last one,

which was held in September, had nine participants!

• CLARENCE STONE for donating several copies of the Sammamish

Valley News.

Cemetery Plots For

Sale

The Society is selling two side-by-side plots in Redmond’s

Cedar Lawns Memorial Park. Donated by the Reed family, they include

endowment care and are in the Garden of Christus section (225: 3 & 4).

The price is $3,499 for one or $6,699 for both with the current value at

$5,495 each. Cedar Lawns will handle all the necessary paperwork. If

you are interested, contact us at 425.885.2919 for info.

ceDar lawns

cemeteryPlOts

FOR SALE






Guy Springsteel in front of his service station with niece Marilyn McIlvena.

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RHS NEWS True stOry Of a miD-century

american family:Guy & charlOtte sPrinGsteel

1947-1962New lifetime member Fred Springsteel of Poulsbo and sister Noelene Kycek

of Aberdeen dedicate this column to the memory of their parents, Guy

(1906-1991) and Charlotte (1910-2001).

Our parents owned and operated the only Mom & Pop service

station/snack bar and store combo on westside of Lake Sammamish in

the late 1940s. “Guy’s Service” carried basic groceries and featured a soda

fountain that they installed. From spring 1947 until the winter of 1949-50,

we kept the store open three miles south of Redmond across the lake road

from the current Idylwood Park at 3650 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway.

Some customers were friends, like the Euc LaBries atop the hill or the

Carl & Margaret Breedmans directly across NE 36th. Through the latter we

made friends with their Eastside relations: the Tor & Helen Magnussens,

and Cecil & Marion Walns.




RHS NEWS

The six-member Springsteel family rented

the modest “King house” just north of the store.

Gateway Grove, Idylwood Resort’s competitor,

was later combined with the latter. The doubled

park/resort eventually gave its name to the park.

Charlotte ran the store and even pumped

gas while Guy taught school in three nearby

districts. She made up to a dozen pies a day for

the counter.

In the Great Winter of ‘49, the store caught re in the night and

burned to the ground in a few hours. Neighbors woke up the Springsteels

(or most of them) and Noelene was sent running past the leaping ames

to awaken Grampa Joe in a nearby cabin. Fred, age nine, slept through all

the noise and excitement and woke up to a greatly altered neighborhood!

After that coldest winter on record, the Springsteels moved to a cozier

home at 13841 NE 80th. When the Korean War began in summer 1950,

Guy returned to merchant marine ofcer service where he had served in

World War II. From 1950 to 1970, Charlotte worked in retail at Kirkland’s Ben

Franklin and Bellevue’s Newberry stores. In the late 1950s, Guy was on the

Lake Washington School Board. The couple separated after Fred left for

Notre Dame, fall 1958, but drove together to his 1962 graduation. Their rst

child (Duane) had died in 1960.

Guy later remarried and settled in NE Seattle, where he was active in

the Lake City Elks and Eagles. Charlotte moved to Aberdeen in 1977. Three

of their four children graduated from college. In mid-century America, two

ordinary people who met and were educated as teachers at Bellingham

Normal could still retire without worries. Their three living children greatly

beneted.

(“True Story of a Mid-Century Family” contined from page 6.)

A mid-20th Century Fred Springsteel




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In memOriam: Dale w. hawkinsOn

(1944-2011)

“Dale W. Hawkinson was born in Jordan, Montana, on July 25,

1944, to Carl and Lucille Hawkinson. … Dale grew up in Rosebud, Montana,

graduating in 1963. He attended Brown’s Institute of Technology in

Minneapolis before enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1965 and serving until 1968.

Dale and Loita Grimsrud were married in 1969 and moved to Seattle. Dale

then went on to earn his Bachelors in Electronic Engineering. Dale, Loita andtheir son Fred moved to Kirkland in 1976 where daughter Carly was born.

“Dale’s passions were his family, all things electronic and nostalgic,

photography and history. Dale focused much of his energy on the history of

Kirkland for the past 15 years. … Dale’s gentle and keen sense of humor was

his trademark and will be missed.”

The family suggested that donations in Dale’s honor be made to the

Kirkland Heritage Society at 203 Market Street, Kirkland, 98033.

Kirkland lost one of its

most passionate local

historians this last summer.

Dale Hawkinson, who

with his wife Loita was

also a valuable friend to

the Redmond Historical

Society, passed away on

July 22. Below is part of

the remembrance written

by his family.

centennial time caPsule?

Redmond turns 100 in 2012—and among the ideas for celebrations is

creating a time capsule for the 200th anniversary! What would you want

folks to know about us 100 years from now? Thinking about it is a greatway to take stock of who and what we are as a community.

Send ideas via email to [email protected] or via U.S. Mail

to Redmond Historical Society, c/o Miguel Llanos, 16600 NE 80th Street,

Redmond, WA, 98052.




SHIPPING & HANDLING: Please add $5.00 shipping & handling surchage for

any order that you would like mailed.

ORDERING INFO*:

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NOTE: “Redmond Refections” is also available at:

• THE SOCIETY OFFICE at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center. (Hours ofoperation on page 12)

• PATTI SIMPSON WARD’S BOOTH at the Redmond Saturday Market throughout the

summer. (Dates on her web site: pattisimpsonward.com)

ORDER NOW

“Redmond Refections”

$15 (INCLUDES TAX)*

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Great Gift iDeas fOr histOry lOvers

Need something special for someone

who appreciates our history? These

items are available at our Society ofce:

GREETING CARDS, MAGNETS

& NOTE CARDS

featuring artwork by local artists:

• PATTI SIMPSON WARD

• DORISJEAN COLVIN• PAT DUGAN

“OUR TOWN”

A history of Redmond, by Nancy Way

Our “VIEW OF HISTORY” DVD

Artwork of the historic Adair House in Anderson

Park, Redmond’s oldest park. “Antics at Anderson

Park” is the work of ne artist Patti Simpson

Ward. See more images of Eastside settings on

pattisimpsonward.com).




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MEMBERSHIP SePtember 9th General meetinG

Eric Anderson

John Anderson

Barbara Neal Beeson

Brad Best

Marjorie Stensland

Costello

John Couch

Liz Carlson Coward

Frank Garbarino

Edward L. Hagen

Lucille B.

Hansen-Bellings

Wayne HansenNaomi Hardy

Patricia Weiss Jovag

Barbara Weiss Joyce

Glenn Lampaert

Roy Lampaert

Judy Aries Lang

Miguel Llanos

Jon Magnussen

Clare ‘Amo’ Marr

Daryl MartinAllison Reed Morris

Charles Reed

Frances Spray Reed

Vivian Robinson

Laurie Rockenbeck

Margy Rockenbeck

William Rockenbeck

Fred Springsteel

Fred Stray

Doris Bauer SchaibleArlyn Vallene

Don Watts

Rose Weiss

Joanne Westlund

Margaret Evers Wiese

James Windle

lifetime members

Were you at our September meeting? These folks were! First time

attendees are noted in BOLD CAPS.

JENI CRASWELL

RON CRASWELL

Tony Emmanuel

Joyce Fowler

Jean Etta Dudley

Goshorn

Frank Gwerder

Charlotte Everson

Hahnlen

Suzanne Hall

Tom HallJerry Hammersberg

Thomas E. Hansen

Mary Hanson

Chris Himes

Judy Aries Lang

BEA LELAND

Janice LeVeck

Cheryl Magnuson

Gene Magnuson

Carl Marrs

Pat Marrs

Bob Martin

Larry E Miller

Alexa Munoz

HANK MYERS

HELEN BENGSTON

NASH

Jackie Nelson

VIC NEWHARD

Monica Park

John Phillips

Roxana Phillips

Virginia Potter

Pickett

Brian Ranck

Patsy CookRosenbach

Anne Salmi

Dee Saunders

Doris Schaible

Nina Shelden

K. Snepp

Fran Stray

Fred Stray

Anne M. Tollfeldt

Harvey Tollfeldt

Jerry Torell

Joe Townsend

Arlyn Bjerke Vallene

Peggy Williams




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