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Photos Courtesy Tom Goossens
At the top of the picture I
believe was called 10th street-seem to run right around to the
dam. On left top you can see the high school with the gym just
to the right of that Just below you can see the elementary
school and below that the school yard As the school ground got
closer to the school it dropped about 3 of 4 feet This must have
been to keep the yard level. Then to protect people from falling
in there was a about a 6 inch cement lip that ran around the top
There were steam pipes that fed live steam to the school and
apartments from the pulp mill These pipes were 15 feet high,
they seem to go everywhere. You can see them in many of the town
pictures To the right of the school yard was the pine
apartments. There were 3 floors for people to live on. The very
bottom I don't think people lived on it - there were storages
room for peoples stuff There was a huge hot water boiler tank.
At the back was a laundry room with at least 6 wash machines,
behind that was a large room This room was full of wash lines
for people to hang there stuff. I believed they would close its
use after 8 P.M. I think How do I know this? We would sneak in
there just before 8 and stand on the three legged stools behind
the bed sheets. The guy would come and open the door, bent over
and look for peoples feet to see if anyone was there, turn out
the light and lock the door. Just can't remember what we did
after he was gone. There was a garbage chute that ran from the
top floor to the bottom garbage room.. There were steam rads at
either end of each floor to heat the hallways. Plus steam rads
in each apartment. Between school and the pine apts was a road
built out of wood. it ran from the school ground right up to
10th street. When it snowed it really snowed. This whole road
would come a slide hill. Kids on bobsleds, sleighs, sitting on
shovels, using their Sunday shoes, anything worked. as the hill
turned into ice. Once in while a snow plough would come down
this wooden road, with a roar and shake the place badly. One
night I thought this was happening but that was the night of the
1965 slide. We lived on the road side Apartment 201. That was
about half way down the building, 2nd from the top. This was a
two bedroom apartment, all four of us kids lived in one room. We
had two sets of bunk beds end for end. The window looked out on
top of the road while the kitchen window looked under the road.
We put a 2x4 across form the kitchen window to a spot under the
road so the cat could get out whenever. On the right side of
pine apartments was the church. To the left of the hotel was the
hospital, looked like a big house. In between the hotel and the
store was a road that ran up towards the dam. Up this road was
the place where every Saturday was the movie in the afternoon. I
spend many a Saturday standing in the rain with my umbrella
waiting to get in. Then just up a block on the dam side of the
road was the swimming pool and bowling hall and I think there
was a community hall. Right across from the hotel just below the
hospital was the post office. And then the boat dock. Just some
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