“ NORTHWEST WONDERLAND ” 1957 WASHINGTON & OREGON STATE TRAVELOGUE CASCADE MOUNTAINS XD45494

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This color travelogue from 1957 showcases the beautiful Cascade Mountain region of Washington and Oregon in the Northwestern United States. Beginning with a brief explanation of how the mountains were formed, we are then shown Mounts Rainier, Adams, Hood, and St. Helens, all the natural wonder surrounding them and all the industry that thrives because of them. Produced by Raphael S. Wolff Studios, Inc. for the Richfield Oil Corporation.
The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades. The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington at 14,411 feet (4,392 m).
00:36 Title card 00:46 Waves crashing on rocky shoreline 01:30 Scale model volcanos erupting 02:18 Glacier on mountain side 02:56 Baby raccoon, deer 03:03 Farmer inspects hay bales 03:20 Populated area in the Willamette Valley 03:29 Women pick daffodils 03:35 Cowboy on horseback lights cigarette 03:45 B-52 Stratofortresses outside Boeing factory 04:00 Agricultural worker carries baskets of tomatoes through field 04:07 Loggers pull floating timber 04:18 Man looks through binoculars 04:46 Mountainside chalet covered in snow 05:33 Children drink from drinking fountain; baby in bath 05:38 Man jumps from high dive platform 05:56 Logging tram 06:08 Ferry boat 06:15 Women standing on a deck wave at boat in a lake 07:01 Frothing river rapids 07:13 Vast timber forests, mountain in the background 07:52 Logger works chainsaw through tree trunk; trucks haul timber 08:00 Sawmill 08:42 Crane lifts timber onto truck 08:50 Ross Dam, Washington 09:42 Family in living room; fireplace, television set, record player 09:49 Factory beside river 10:03 Room of men working at drafting tables 10:09 Appliances store with neon sign 10:13 Couple pack station wagon 10:25 Cars enter Mt. Rainier National Park 10:40 Fishermen in waders in a river 11:12 Elk viewed through telephoto lens 11:16 Man films bear 11:21 Troop of boy scouts hike through forest 11:37 Man plays guitar around campfire 2:09 Climber hacks at icy mountainside with pickaxe 12:16 Couple hike past glacier 12:23 Spelunkers in icy cave 12:55 Couple with dog walks through field 13:28 Hikers cross plank bridge 15:28 Wild flowers 16:23 Lake Chelan, WA 17:05 Horseback riders wade into lake, boats and canoes on lake 17:08 Cowboys fix supper, tend campfire 17:27 Crater Lake, Oregon 18:01 Tour boat approaches the Phantom Ship 18:49 Looking down into clear lake water, woman fills glass with lake water 19:31 Fly fisherman lands a trout 19:37 Fish underwater 20:04 Fisherman casts into river 20:13 Rowboat in rapids; man nets fish 20:26 Fishermen in rivers 20:46 Man in boat catches, holds fish 22:20 Sailboats in lake, water skier 22:43 Snow skiers ski down mountain 23:42 Heather Cup Tournament; man skies under banner reading “Finish” 23:53 Spectators in shorts, sunglasses watch 23:59 Skiers careen across slush puddle 24:17 Skiers ascend mountain via rope tow, T-bar, Poma lift, chairlift 24:44 Slalom run, ski jump 24:54 Exterior ski lodge at night; Spout Springs Lodge, OR 25:01 Ski instructor give class 25:07 Nigh skiing with torches 25:29 Skiers disembark from Trailways bus 25:54 POV: riding on a chairlift 26:08 Snowcat tows skiers up mountain 26:35 Skier passes beneath “Golden Rose” banner 26:43 Woman presents trophy cup to man in Oregon State College sweater 27:16 Man pulls harrow with tractor 27:22 Cut tree falls in woods 27:24 McNary Dam on Oregon/Washington boarder 27:30 Outdoor church service 27:53 John Muir quote 28:20 CREDITS
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[@tikitavi7120]

It really was a paradise. Like another world.

[@doomedtolinger2213]

Nothing like sparking up a nice cig to enjoy the beautiful mountains...

[@JasonOwensYT]

Nothing like a 300 lb Antifa neck beard throwing molotovs at you for liking freedom of speech.

[@Thewestcoastshooter]

I would give anything to have seen the PNW 60 years ago.

[@gibby3350]

Wow! I’m 22 so I totally did not grow up during this time but I just how peaceful it is, makes it almost feel nostalgic. I totally want to adapt some more traditional values and activities in my own life, it just seems so nice!

[@northerniltree]

1957 was the time to behold the natural splendor. 2021 is the time to behold the devastation & degradation.

[@Sennmut]

Of PCness and environmental/socialsim, certainly.

[@zackakai5173]

@@Sennmut to the contrary, I think OP was alluding to idiot right wing corporatists who have destroyed large swaths of the natural world while feeding lies to the gullible (such as yourself) about how humans totally can't destroy nature

[@anth636]

2022 is still a good time to behold natural splendor

[@suspicionofdeceit]

Not really, pollution was far worse back then.

[@kirkmarrie8060]

Awesome find!!! Thank you for your continuing efforts!

[@jeffreycoulter4095]

I love the Pacific northwest . Over the last 30 years, it changed. Now. Overcrowding, corruption, mismanagement, malfeasance have developed into an anthropocentric sewer, where, salmon, vast forests, lakes, rivers and pristine beaches once stood for thousands of years. In one generation, it was changed forever.

[@JasonOwensYT]

You let the antifa far leftist liberals take over one of the best parts of the country. Shame.

[@greglarson6293]

There were articles speculating about what would happen in Californians kept moving into Oregon and Washington with their liberal ideology. Now we know. Sad.

[@redoakcircleyount]

Now the whole damn place is on fire

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

The econazis limited logging... so it just burns

[@alcoholic2412]

As a native of Washington state, watching this in the year 2021 is depressing

[@SoapinTrucker]

I'm not a native, but have lived in WA a few times, all the way back to when the 410 highway ran through Grandview! LOVED it as a kid, and even later as an adult, BUT have absolutely noticed changes! :(

[@daphnekivinen9482]

I grew up in the PNW and loved every minute of it. This travel log must have been written by Charles Darwin.

[@kennethjohnson6319]

I like watching how the north west was formed showing the Majestic mountains and the beautiful wilderness of Oregon and Washington

[@theturdcurd2382]

I'd LOVE to go and visit and see all this for myself. But with the way the democrats are running things, letting Antifa and BLM run around like animals, I'm going to settle on videos.

[@JasonOwensYT]

@@theturdcurd2382 West coast is all Antifa. Its an Antifa stronghold. Just ask Ted Wheeler mayor of Portland and Kate Brown Governor.

[@vf5126]

@@theturdcurd2382 My daughter’s just blocks from ‘Antifa’s’ only target in Portland (the federal courthouse).. You’d have nothing to fear, unless extremely intelligent and qualified progressives give you the hoolies :-)

[@theturdcurd2382]

@@vf5126 No, I'm a realist, I see all the videos of Antifa"s rampage. Either you're part of Antifa, or you like being holed up in your house all night. Then maybe I could take a tour of all the homeless shelters. I could admire all the discarded needles, note the garbage and sh#t all over. Then I can get mugged and the police wont do anything because they are afraid of retaliation form BLM AND your politicians. Yeah, sounds like a REAL utopia.

[@rowanmoormann9532]

That's wonderful, thanks for sharing this.

[@babydriver8134]

Mount St. Helens, I love it.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Liked the peak of mt. St. Helen. They didn ' knew yet.

[@vf5126]

It was one of the young “fire mountains''.” I remember riding up it as a kid, the spiraling road carved into it’s side. Worked one summer at it’s base, former “Spirit Lake,” then watched it blow from my hometown of Portland…

[@vf5126]

Where I was born - the year I was born! We had a cabin at the base of Mt. Hood and hiked into every Cascade lake dad could find … before they knew how those “fire mountains” formed. Due to our current knowledge of the pending subduction zone quake ..this native relocated 3K miles away. Miss the PNW, but too costly a gamble to remain there ~

[@DokesConspiracyNetwork]

3:57 best picture ever

[@coolworx]

Now it's all burning.

[@gmarie701]

Libtard arsonists trying to convince regular folks of thier control freak global warming schemes, so they burn every thing down, having never built anything to start with. Tie them to the trees they are burning when you find them.

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

You either log it or it burns.

[@GrislyAtoms12]

At the 0:41 mark: "Then more slowly than the mind of man can comprehend..." HA! I've been in line behind old ladies at the pharmacy. I think I can comprehend it.

[@SoapinTrucker]

I have GREAT memories of living in WA & OR a few times in my almost 59 years! :)

[@laserbeam002]

If we don't learn to take care of our environment and be good stewards of the earth we will never see anything like this again. We should truly care what kind of environment we leave our children and grandchildren. But unfortunately not enough people care to look forward and see what we are going to be leaving.

[@mckinleyseaver5061]

The audio isn’t synchronized with the picture properly

[@fakeascanbe423]

I send this video to people whenever they ask me how it's going on oregon

[@nunyab..]

Cool but I think the words and the pictures don’t match like it is a few seconds off

[@WilmerCook]

Now we sell all the timber to China, and the cascades get very little snow.

[@daphnekivinen9482]

The U.S. Forest Service is not allowed to sell the whole logs to the Orient. It has to be milled in the United States before the wood can be exported. Loggers who try to sell whole logs to the orient could go to prison for a very long time. This is true just call any Forest Serbice office and ask.

[@gmarie701]

Just make random lies up and do your wittle termite social justice warrior jig and then brag to your triggered wittle snowflake, termite lib comrades about how righteous you claim to be. There is plenty of snow in the Cascades each year. Save the planet. Jump off the Space Needle. Moron.

[@WilmerCook]

@@daphnekivinen9482 I remember seeing ships in Longview Washington harbor loaded with logs going overseas 30yrs ago.

[@daphnekivinen9482]

@@WilmerCook Yes, the logs were coming from private land like Weyerhaeuser. I can't remember if the State of Washington could export whole logs. I worked for the Foest Service in the Timber Department and had to account for the volume that was taken off the Forest. Each Timber Sale Contractor that logged on Federal Land had to prove each year that they had not exported any whole logs. I reviewed the export documents that they had to provide.

[@countrycraftsman5110]

@@daphnekivinen9482 it is some of the privet timber owners that ship timber over seas.

[@mackpines]

3:20 Portland. 3:35 Well this didn't age well. Go ahead and start a wildfire there dude. 5:57 Okay, I want to know the history of this water flume railway. Anyone know? 6:15 Spirit Lake. All this is now hundreds of feet underwater. 9:58 Willamette Falls. 21:08 Snoqualmie Falls. 21:14 Multnomah Falls. 25:56-26:09 Riding the old Magic Mile chairlift on Mount Hood from Timberline Lodge to the Silcox Hut. The lift was moved in 1962 and the hut was abandoned and later restored. 27:27 McNary Dam?

[@debo4947]

3000 years to turn it all into lumber it actually took them 50

[@russellzauner]

sure, it was the logging that melted the glaciers. sure it was. Derek, I blame you. You participate in global warming and you helped ruin our summer skiing.

[@conservativecalvinist3308]

@@russellzauner ???

[@DokesConspiracyNetwork]

@@russellzauner Global Warming is a hoax pushed by the elite to justify more laws and regulations. Weather control has been persistent since before Vietnam if you wanna go there.

[@byronbuck1762]

@@DokesConspiracyNetwork Neither a hoax nor a conspiracy nor is weather controlled by anyone. It’s real, it’s growing and it is one great uncontrolled atmospheric experiment already producing disaster

[@DokesConspiracyNetwork]

@@byronbuck1762 and I got a video on my channel proving weather control 😎 so stfu with the cognitive bias

[@josephbryant6758]

I like :Portland ,then and now:,it's funny

[@bar10dr]

And now the glaciers are gone, and water is about to become very expensive

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

Only if the World Economic Forum gets their way

[@FellDestroyedMusic]

The west is the best

[@jesseterrell9354]

Not anymore it’s all going to look like eastern Oregon one day.

[@babydriver8134]

In what way?

[@jesseterrell9354]

@@babydriver8134 dry and barren and on fire half the year

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

You can thank the National Forest Service for piss poor environmentalist policies!

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

I really hate the timestamp at the bottom it ruins experience for me personally.

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[@johnacord5664]

I lived 10 years in the Puget Sound area. It was the 80s. Ronald Reagan's Marlboro Country. It was "No Veteran Need Apply". Only those MAGGOTS making the six digit salaries were allowed to enjoy the beauty of the forests and mountains. Us common folk were completely priced out of every aspect of life there. I new guys whose families have been there since the depression and war wanted to get the F%#k out and move to Idaho or Montana. What we could use now is a lot of JFK's "Camelot"

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

What has happened in Washington has all been done by democrats!

[@jaykay8570]

And now, immigration from CA and even further south of the border, have wrecked this pristine country. Heaven was the PNW before 1990.

[@JO-kp6lk]

My family moved to Bend, Oregon, in 1963. At the time it had a pop. of about 9,000 people. Now the immediate area is about 200,000. Might as well be Reno. My family was in CA. for about 4 years before my dad retired from the AF and brought his family to Oregon. Now Bend is 'Spandex Central'. What a shame.

[@WilmerCook]

@@JO-kp6lk boy you said it! BEND is little California, I had to move further south, I moved to Bend from Idaho in 1986 for work. Bend was a perfect little town. Watch the Real Estate people on KZbin selling Bend now, makes me sick.

[@JO-kp6lk]

@@WilmerCook Mr. Mudd, I could rant on for days about what has been lost; how Lapine has become L A Pine, etc. My brother and I used to fish the gorge area at Cline Falls just outside of Redmond. It was like a nature preserve. So many kinds of animals from huge Otters to, well, just go down the list. The Brown Trout were huge. My best weighed 8 Lbs. Now you can even get in there. It's all private because the land was sold by BLM (that's Bureau Of Land Management to those who are even slightly informed). The Water has changed, the plant life is not the same and the Deschutes River is listed as an irrigation canal by the state. Now you can't even look at Smith Rock without seeing bodies plastered on it and chalk smears down its face. I watched all of this happen over the course of nearly sixty years. It is truly a heart breaker. My best to you! At least we have our memories. John W. Oberdorf

[@zackakai5173]

To be clear, are we talking about immigration from places like Ireland, Italy, Russia, and China around the turn of the 20th century? Or immigration from England, Spain, and France, a century or three before that?

[@magking1971]

Where are all the homeless?

[@MarkWilliam-pl6qs]

This was way before the marxists took over so this it was a normal state