Washington State: Appleland. 1954.

This 1954 film looks at the apple industry in the state of Washington. It looks at the industry, the geology of the Washington, the irrigation of apple orchards from the Columbia and Yakima Rivers, the Grand Coulee Dam, the pruning, mulching and fertilization of orchards, spraying insecticides by tractor pulled equipment and fruit retention hormones by biplane, the picking, processing, and shipping of apples, and the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival.
28 minute color film with audio, narrated by Patrick MacGeehan, and created under contract by Joseph Yolo. Presented by the Washington State Apple Commission, and shared here with their permission. The Washington State Apple Commission thanks you for your interest in the apple industry; to find out more about Washington State apples visit their website at: waapple.org/ . To see what the industry looks like today check out their current videos at: • Industry Videos - Wash... . For permissions about usage of this video, please contact them at [e-mail].
This 16mm film is held in the Historical Films Collection in the stacks at the Washington State University Library in Pullman, WA. Uncataloged at the time of digitization, it is call number L132.

[@marslovesmars]

I am from Yakima and this is great!

[@howdy627]

My great grandfather drilled wells and build canals in Yakima

[@lindakay9552]

My dad worked at Cascadian Fruit Shippers in Wenatchee.

[@maiamitt]

I was 8 years old when this film was made. We lived near Naches in the upper Yakima Valley. We had a small orchard of peaches. Our neighbors all grew apples. I remember the smudge pots in the early spring (blackened nostrils!) and the yellow sulfur spray later on (phew!). When I grew up and moved to Seattle to work, it was a shock to actually pay for apples, cherries and peaches.

[@mikeleroi9261]

You remember how much they paid the bin ?

[@billjensen401]

I remember when the Wenatchee Apple Blossom festival got DeForest Kelley (Dr. Bones McCoy of Star Trek) as the festival parade grand marshal in 1968. I was only 5 yrs old but I can remember how excited my family and the town were as he drove by us on Wenatchee avenue.

[@deyoungaza]

When we were kids in Margate, NJ, our school principal, Mr. William Mosca, showed this to us every single year. I'm not sure how it started, but it became a school tradition. By the time that Mr. Mosca retired, the film was so worn and spliced that it could hardly be played.

[@PaulGreenberg911]

+Uri DeYoung and your Dad was a wonderful teacher in that school!

[@deyoungaza]

+Paul Greenberg Thanks, Paul! I'll tell him you said so! :-)

[@mahesh7069]

Wow, we were also shown this in school: St. John Vianney in Colonia, NJ

[@billjensen401]

I was born in Wenatchee but partied a lot on the Jersey shore in my 20s and 30s. So much fun and a completely different planet from North central Washington! Avalon, Wildwood and Ocean City were great back then.

[@wendyswanson1669]

Its so crazy much has changed, but then so much is still familiar and almost the same.

[@whirlybird5244]

My dad was an apple grower in the Columbia Basin Royal City,WA. I remember those apples right off the tree....so sweet and juicy.

[@meredithsmith2712]

that is awesome

[@billyyoung9997]

Apple crops are now hop fields Not all of them but a lot where I live

[@wsuvancouver]

Love the narration on this. Great video!

[@grapes5672]

Welcome to Wenatchee, where we have *_A P P L E S_*

[@anothersomebody8195]

Those trees are monsters

[@whitapple1]

I commented to my wife that I am glad our orchard is not like that anymore.

[@anothersomebody8195]

@@whitapple1 I bet! I can't imagine L&I insurance on that kind of pruning nowadays. Did they break a lot in the winter?

[@210SAi]

It’d be interesting to see a modern video on the same topic

[@joleev.7310]

Search Legacy Fruit 1

[@lindakay9552]

Nothing has changed in Wenatchee in over 100 years. Except the crap addition of "crap commerce."

[@210SAi]

@@lindakay9552 lies, I lived in Wenatchee 23-20 yrs ago and it was nothing like this video

[@lindakay9552]

@@210SAi I still live here now, and it's still orchards everywhere.

[@lindakay9552]

@@210SAi yeah I'm gonna listen to someone that hasn't been here for 2 decades.... NOT.

[@КостяЛопунов]

Apple is good for you BEFORE lunch, not after!

[@kate1269]

The world is so changed now, and really, not for the best. When I see videos like this, I think "Is this for real..?" I almost feel a little bitter about it too. Lol

[@StandingForLight]

How do ya like THEM apples?

[@johncholmes643]

It's crazy to see white people picking apples.

[@johncholmes643]

@@mrsandmom5947 I live there

[@csdesjarlais9779]

Ugh hormones sprayed on the apples!

[@anothersomebody8195]

The poor pilot without a mask