1930's Coos Bay & Coos Bay Lumber Co. History

[@leesapage-long5805]

Thank you I love hearing the old timer's talking about the old days & how it was done

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Thank YOU! I'm glad you liked it! I can watch it again and again and... well, you get it! ;) Thanks again!

[@countrycraftsman5110]

Thank you. Now that i am older, history is more interesting than ever to me.

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Oh, of course! That's exactly what inspired me to create it🙂!

[@miapdx503]

Yes! I'm in my 60s and history has become so fascinating. Especially when we get past the lies and ignorance we were taught in school. Ugh. Real history is much more interesting. 🌹

[@davelambardo6464]

Awesome history laid out in a well done style. My granddad was one of the mechanics at delwood for years . I am just old enough to remember the big off road log trucks they used. He lived off eastside, we would scavange old darlict boats out of the bay or logging equipment people would give him up in the mountains on the weekends . The best times of my life were had in those days. He had agreements with the local stores to get outdated foods and baked goods to feed all his hogs. We would always take the best stuff for the house first. In the 70s he got 3 or free trailer houses we flipped and set them so the sliding glass doors lined up . His house had 3 1/2 kitchens , living rooms and like 9 bedrooms . Lol it was trashy but it was a well used home

[@michaelguillemette2230]

I'm glad you enjoyed it and it brought back fond memories for you! That issort of my goal! So, thanks for that! ;) Very industrious bunch! Thanks again!

[@miapdx503]

Awesome 🌹

[@janetlanders8220]

Wow I was born in Coos bay and so was my my siblings. I was born in 1951 and my oldest sister in the 30’s. I remember the wigwag burners.we grew up in Allegany my father was a logger. We had a small farm and some of our milk was ship down the Coos River. Oh how I miss the country. Thank you so much. I remember the Egyptian . There was a old outdoor theaters in Eastside and Empire. One of my sisters worked at the Hub. I remember going there as a little girl.

[@phyllishowlett7230]

My Grandparents are the ones that had The Golden Leaf Dairy Farm up Haynes Inlet until 1965

[@nancykennon310]

Old Codgers. Some of the best men. These guys could tell some great stories. I grew up in the East Texas Oil Fields and these guys remind me of my uncle's and great uncle's who were Ruff Necks.

[@Starfire777]

WOW! I lived in COOS BAY in the 60's, and worked at MOHAWK Handle Co. making Broom Handles, then moved up to FLORENCE and worked at La DUKE Lumber and Erkskin lumber, I loved the Area and SANDUNES!! also worked at FOX Chevrolet,Thanks for the Memories! 😁

[@joanconway7242]

Loved this video. I'm old enough to remember many of the buildings and industries. Thanks for sharing.

[@matthewgauthier7251]

Thanks. Grew up in San Diego and during high school worked on the the bay there stickering the units of lumber for fork lift drivers unloading million + board feet of lumber off of barges floated down the Pacific coast from Coos Bay and same lumber co. Had not heard that name In 40 years. Cool stuff. My family ,on both sides, worked in mills, lumber yards, and logging, for generations.

[@chuckjames1943]

That was wonderful. My Great Granduncle was C.A.Smith , the founder of Coos Bay Lumber Company. My mothers family were invited to come from Minnesota to work in the mill. Mom's family first moved up the Millicoma river and commuted via the mail boat. They eventually moved to town. We have no relatives there today. Great grandparents are buried in Sunset cemetery. Thanks for posting this.

[@bobzelley5100]

My first boss was don Smith who's family owned a lumber yard , I thought in the town of Steve prefontaine.

[@zacharyquaglia8248]

Real History! Thank you! This is the best!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Glad you liked it! I love my local (PNW) history!!

[@prsearls]

That was a fascinating era, now long gone. The work was hard and dangerous. It was interesting to see what it was like and hear the personal recollections of the men who lived it.

[@1946luke]

Unfortunately, it's no longer your Grandfather's Oregon. I wonder what they would think of it now ? I bet they'd be a little disappointed.

[@markbroad119]

I think we need to go back to these ways. Everyone working, no times for depression or gangs. Also there was no obesity

[@redsoxclover11]

I wish those neighborhoods still looked this good. Still one of my favorite areas on the Oregon coast. Thanks for the video!!

[@josephshulman4330]

Haven't been there but I did go to Portland once . Had a great time . Very nice city

[@miapdx503]

​@@josephshulman4330I live in Portland, and after having traveled all over our nation, I choose Portland! 🌹

[@Steveanders0n]

My dad worked for Hillstrom's in the early seventies and us kids went to Marshfield High. Sister still lives in the area, but the rest moved on. Now I'm in Salt Lake City working for a lumber company that buys South Port lumber products from Coos Bay.

[@danidavis7912]

I lied about my age and worked for Gold Coast Security when I was 16. I was a night time security guard at Hillstrom's for a summer.

[@miapdx503]

Before "technology," the fishing and lumber industries were paramount in the Pacific Northwest. Still vital, but not what they used to be. 🌹 Thank you, for an excellent video. Your footage is amazing, and really adds to your telling of a beautiful place. 🌹

[@choke666]

Very interesting. i've lived here since my birth in '79.'

[@brendabach2440]

Thank you for this amazing video! My family moved to empire in 1968 and I was born at the hospital in North Bend. Oh how I miss the smell of the Chip piles and going to Sunset Bay.

[@michaelguillemette2230]

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!

[@ramona7877]

My grandparents (both sides) moved to Coos Bay/ North Bend/ Coos County in the 1920s. We just sold the last of our property off old highway 101 (because I don't like the name North Bay Drive) My father was killed on Central dock in 1977 (work related) Greenacres, Remote, Bridge, Glassgo, Powers, Fairview, Millington Charleston, Lone Rock, Horsefall, Dune Scooters Peterson's Landing.... Soooo many memories

[@professorjackalope]

Thank you so much! Incredible footage, great narration. Love the Bay! I miss my days in North Bend.

[@jenniferbailey8344]

Heard that old hospital got demolished

[@Dave_9547]

Wonderful video, thanks for putting it together and narrating the film footage. My grandfathers, both immigrants from Sweden worked in sawmills. My dad was a logger in Oregon, worked in one of the Tillamook burns and later logged in N. Calif. The sawmill that was the major employer in our little town (Cherry Grove) had a cook shack and bunk house up till around 1951. The Oregon coast is beautiful and thanks to the state, there is very good public access.

[@matthewgauthier7251]

Must have been a trend. My Swedish ancestor came from Kalmar to Mendocino, Cal. to work the same way in the Redwood forests.

[@jeffreyhunt1727]

Fantastic video. Thanks for posting this!!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!

[@JohnFoley1701]

Fat Elk never found much oil. They went out of business a few times and kept suckering in more investors. The area is mostly dairy farms now. There’s a bamboo farm there now too.

[@tacfoley4443]

Many thanks, Dick, for posting this marvellous old video. I'd love to be able to replicate it in model form, but where would I find 48 tons of 1/20.3 wood chips?

[@gailcirac4485]

Went to grade school, Hillcrest, Roosevelt. NBHS. Graduated. 1967. Worked at GP plywood. Nice place to live.

[@dennisbaker514]

Great Videos! Thank You!

[@ghabwy9733]

I was born in Coos Bay. Thank you for this, Michael!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Of course! Glad you liked it!

[@warrenosborne6044]

Thank you, in the latter 70's, Coos Bay was a preferable transfer from Adak Alaska to the submarine surveillance system, (SOSUS). I got Pacific Beach Wa. Both places are the true Pacific North Wet.

[@steamfish9]

You failed to mention the wonderful people of Coos Bay. Theres nothing like a common battle against the elements and constantly being soaked to the bone to bring people together i.e. "Whew! it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock out there!"

[@kevinkinsey6985]

I would like to see the yarder for this set up awesome

[@lewislinzy3437]

A very good video. It brings back a lot of old memories. It also shows the history of how the salmon runs were destroyed in Oregon. Now they are being finished off by the overpopulation of predators and commercial fishermen.

[@danidavis7912]

Total nonsense.

[@StoneGoat]

Coal mines......wow .....had no idea that industry was in the area! Grew up just north of there to travel there for movies (the port/Egyptian /the pony) and shopping . My favorite was part was drive thru Wendy's and the drive down park and watch logs loaded onto the ships before heading home

[@mitchellreid4205]

My grandfather ( Fao Patterson) an engineer with the Southern Pacific RR transfered from Tucson to Coos Bay in 1937 in order to build the jetty.

[@stacymagers686]

My Grand Mother Alice was the automotive shop manager at J.C. Penny in Coos Bay for many years and retired from there. My Grand Father Dale drove a log truck for Coos Trucking for many years until he retired. He purchased his first brand new Mack truck in 1940 and immediately purchased another which he then hired his close friend to drive for him.

[@jermhanson13]

Take me back please. Still working on that jetty in 2024.

[@jimbaker2449]

Wow! I'm working on a restoration project of Coos Bay #11 in San Diego, and there she is in service at about the 45 minute mark!! Thanks!

[@dariendude17]

I live in coos bay Oregon. What is this project? Sounds interesting!

[@jimbaker2449]

@@dariendude17 See www.psrm.org/trains/steam/coos/restoration-updates/ Things are moving pretty slowly; I should be adding a new update in a month or so.

[@michaelguillemette2230]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@53Peterbilt]

Long time Eastside resident. WOW, how some things have changed, and some...not at all Great job with this video

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Thanks! Im glad you enjoyed it!

[@joycesmith1742]

I love Coos Bay. We go there a lot. Bought 2 RVs there at Porter's RV in coos Bay.

[@JohnFoley1701]

Nice bit of history.

[@olivei2484]

Fantastic two films. Great find. I hayed with a gal who worked 8 hours a day at a Seneca lumber mill pulling green chain. Then she would buck hay out of the fields for 3 hours. Did this for a week. Man she was tough.

[@jenniferbailey8344]

My step father worked in the lumber mill

[@robertrowan5661]

Incredible thank you

[@michaelguillemette2230]

Of course! I'm glad you enjoyed viewing it! 🙂

[@ropiequet5239]

Where has this video been the last 8 years of my research!?! I would have killed to see just that clip of the old East Branch. I spent YEARS reconstructing the old girl with 3D computer programs! She's right there!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

at your service! ;-)

[@danidavis7912]

I have dozens of pics of the East Branch, inside and out. That I took.

[@ropiequet5239]

@@danidavis7912 I would love to see them! Were they taken before, or after the 1952 remodel?

[@louisandsteph]

I live in Bandon, actually, Parkersburg, can you showcase this area please?

[@lethaleefox6017]

Lived in North Bend for a couple years.

[@jenniferbailey8344]

Sounds like my dream I had as a kid when a boy fell from a train bridge. That dream is still with me today. 😢😢😢

[@robertsnyder5149]

I was a pitman when I started work with Crown Zellerbach out of Cathlamet, Wash.

[@dariendude17]

Dude I live in Coos bay and I used to live in the Myrtle Arms! It's still standing and looks exactly the same after all these years!

[@michaelguillemette2230]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@charlesdada6434]

Notice there are no cars parked in front of all the homes shown. Is that because there were few privately owned cars, as everyone had access to busses that went by every 15 minutes?

[@janetsenour1995]

Mom's birth place! I don't know how old she was when they moved. I just know she was born there.

[@jenniferbailey8344]

I didn't go there but I knew it. I went to north bend high school

[@timsteinkamp2245]

I'm no expert on uploading old motion picture film from home cameras to YT but the quality of this is sad. I put it on 720P but doesn't help.

[@WootTootZoot]

Coos Bay has one of the highest per-capita substance abuse problems in the State of Oregon.

[@andrewnagel6322]

No wonder its Coos Bay. Was raised up coos river from 67 to 83, moved back 88 to 90, and glad I'm out of there.

[@TheBandit7613]

I drove thru there a year ago and it didn't look that bad to me except there were some bums and beggers.

[@TheBandit7613]

@@SlapNuts4Life Got to be stopped. One of the most beautiful places anywhere. We have to figure out what to do with these idiots.

[@jasongarcia2140]

Oh yeah I stayed there a year and a half ago. We did all the drugs.

[@donaldstewart9873]

👍👍

[@jenniferbailey8344]

Coast Guard is in north bend

[@davewallace8219]

as anericans spread west they logged out whole forrests!....Maine...new hampshire...all logged out 1860s....further west ...with the development of chicacgo....I'll. Wisconsin was logged out by early 1900s. so the loggers went the the forrests of the n.w. for timber.... my freind told me that that by the 1950s...all the forests...in the n.e. had grown back.... so it is! a renewable resource!!!

[@jenniferbailey8344]

There's definitely oil under there

[@davidbaldwin1591]

Where are the 1930's vehicles?

[@docinparadise]

Are you a historian for the Brookings, coos Bay and north areas? Do you know who is? I came upon some very interesting information in a ledger from 1903 and some love letters from the 30’s. This information should be public knowledge. Who would you suggest would be the right person to tell the as yet untold story of the great Oregon land fraud and subsequent Puter family endeavors?

[@jenniferbailey8344]

Coos Bay has history with Japan

[@waynehenderson5306]

I moved si

[@Milkmans_Son]

And the lumber supply will last forever and ever.

[@Sandra-lh9tg]

I was a student at Bangor...lived exactly across the street. Mrs.Morrow was my teacher back in 1970.