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History is Happening in Redmond!
The Redmond Recorder 
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A trolley whose time has come?
 Photo courtesy of Karen Dennis
The Issaquah Trolley Project acquired this trolley from San Francisco. Might one like it be in Redmond's future?
The track’s there and so is some traction to getit going. We’re talking about the idea – supported bymany business leaders – to use the rail line betweenRedmond and Woodinville for a tourist trolley andsomeday possibly commuter service.Join us Feb. 14 at 10:30am when two keyconductors of Issaquah’s successful trolley projectexplain the possibilities for heritage preservation and the political/logisticalobstacles involved.
Barbara Justice
and
Craig Thorpe
, Issaquah Historical Societymembers, will show photos of their work so far.
John Resha
, a newRedmond councilman and transportation expert, will join us as well.We’re not talking Amtrak or cargo, but a trolley that shuttles touristsand locals on weekends between Redmond Town Center and Woodinville’swineries/brewery. The trolley could include narrated trips and displaysshowcasing our heritage. Weekdays could eventually see commuter use.The City has been in talks to acquire the section of tracks, whichBurlington Northern/Santa Fe now uses only rarely. Initial ideas includeusing the right-of-way for walking, biking and even mass transit. Railadvocates say there’s no reason why a trolley couldn’t be incorporated aswell.
The Redmond Recorder
February 2004 Vol. 6, No. 2 Redmond Historical SocietyOur mission:
To discover, recover, preserve, share and celebrate Redmond’s history
 
16600 NE 80
th
St, Room 106, Redmond, WA, 98052 425-885-2919www.redmondhistory.org redmondhistory@msn.comOffice hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 1-4pm
 
President’s corner
The first meeting of 2004and what a great meeting. Sixty-ninefriendly faces filled the room. Wehad four “first timers” that we wishto welcome and hope that they visitus again:
Janet Wolfheim, BettyNewman, Susie Emmanuel
and
EdMurphy
.
 
Lt. Jim Taylor
, newlyretired from the Redmond Police,entertained us with stories from his33 years of service. Some of us heldour breath in hopes that our namesweren’t mentioned. Luckily enoughno one was named.Another highlight was when
Mayor Ives
displayed the first of 10“historic” street signs to be installedin Redmond, a product from lastyear’s 90
th
birthday events
.“
Lampaert Lane
,” honoring the
Lampaert family
who lived andfarmed the property that is nowRedmond Shopping Center, will bethe first sign placed.Special thanks to
Margeand Roy Hanson
for setting upchairs,
Angie Lang
for collectingnames for the book drawing and allthe rest of you who helped.The office will be open forvisitors after each general meeting.Stop by to see “history happening inRedmond.” Come share your storieswith us at our next general meeting,Feb. 14
th
at 10:30 a.m.
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Feb. 14 meeting
10:30am-12pm
Old RedmondSchoolhouseCommunity CenterRoom 104
 
History is Happening in Redmond!
The Redmond Recorder 
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Redmondiscing…
 In words and in the drawing below,
 Russ Goetschuss
shares a lighter side of school when he taught at the old Redmond Junior High.
We moved to the new school on the hill in 1958.My Junior High art classroom was in the front of the school to the right of the flagpole.
Boyd Kinney
,our long-time janitor, raised the flag every morning.On the way into the building it was inspiring to see theStars and Stripes fluttering in the breeze.One morning while the school was in session,Boyd was looking up at the flag. I saw him from mywindow and wondered what was going on. The windhad flipped the top of the flag off the pull-up lanyardand attached it to the pull-down side.As the drawing shows, the school flag was upside down and at abouthalf mast. Everyone knows this means HELP, S.O.S., ALL IS NOT WELL.Now, the flag could not be hauled down because it was attached to both sidesof the lanyard. By now the principal,
Vernon Leatha
, is outside trying to findthe answer to the problem. The flag is showing a distress signal to the world!Just then, a higher power – a Puget Sound Energy truck – drove by with acherry picker on board. The crew saw the problem and came into the schoolgrounds. In no time the errant flag was properly attached, the truck was on itsway and the day and the school were saved.Thank you Puget Sound!
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Shirley (Armstrong) Driskill
writes:I enjoy reading about Redmond. I moved there from Ballard when Iwas 11 with my family: my Dad,
George Armstrong
, my Mom,
AnnamaeArmstrong
, my sister,
Barbara Armstrong
and myself. We had a house onWill Grove Rd. and moved away in 1948 or 1949. My Mom married
SteveNichols
near that time & they had 2 boys and a girl. The middle or second boywas killed in Ellensburg, but
Steve Nichols Jr.
lives in Woodinville.
PaulineNichols
… works for the post office in Redmond. I have pictures taken at theRedmond school, 1944, 1945 and 1946. The school pictures are of me in the4th, 5th, & 6th grades. … My sister Barbara, who lives in Coolidge, Ariz., …has a lot of our history while in Redmond.
Shirley can be reached at: P.O. Box 1316, Newport, WA, 99156-1316 
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Barry McCorkle
, now in Alaska, writes:I left Redmond in 1949, after the earthquake but not because of it.The population was 530 at that time. Back in those days many of us earnedmoney by shagging golf balls off the first tee along the R.R. tracks at theRedmond Golf Club. (There was) fishing on Bear Creek from the fish rack down to the mouth at the Slough. Of course you people know all that stuff butit's nice to reminisce.
 
2004 Meetings
All @ 10:30 am
Second Saturday of the month
Feb. 14 June 12March 13 Sept. 11April 10 Oct. 9May 8 Nov. 13_________________________
2004 BoardJudy Lang,
President
 Naomi Hardy,
VP
 Miguel Llanos,
VP
 Teresa Becker,
Treasurer
 Margaret Wiese,
Corresponding Secretary
 Beryl Standley,
Recording Secretary
DirectorsRoy BuckleyTerri GordonTom HitzrothLarry HogerAmo MarrDoris SchaibleVeronica Smirnov
Volunteers Needed
Videos, oral histories
Transfer videotapes to CDs;taping oral interviews. CallJudy Lang at 425 823-3551.
Office staff 
Greet visitors, help withsmall tasks as regular orsubstitute. Call Judy Lang at425 823-3551.
Memberships
If you haven’t joined orrenewed yet, please use theform on the last page to doso. Memberships anddonations are taxdeductible!!
 
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ETC.Cemetery Update
The Society will be lobbyingto improve the maintenanceof the Redmond CommunityCemetery. Board member
Amo Marr
will chair theeffort and needs help.Contact her at 425 868-4094for details.
Homes Archive
 
Board member
TerriGordon
is compiling photosof local homes for ourSociety. Her last project wasour great 2003 barnscalendar, and we’ll see whatcomes of this new collection.If you have a photo or sketchof an interesting house(including farmhouses andcabins, etc.) in the Redmondarea, either still existing ornot, Terri might like to scanit for our archive. Photoswith or without people inforeground are great. CallTerri at 425 241-5944, orleave voice mail at 206 517-0395, or email her atstirdly@aol.com 
Need a Speaker?
Board member
TomHitzroth
is available toshare Redmond’s historywith groups. Contact him atthitzroth@msn.comor at425 823-2981 for details.
Lt. Jim Taylor
 
Video clips from thehilarious presentation lastmonth by retiring police Lt.Jim Taylor
 
are online atwww.redmondhistory.org 
 
It’s official: Lampaert Lane first historic City street sign
Photo courtesy of Ilya Smirnov
Roy Lampaert
,
Mayor Rosemarie Ives
and Roy’s daughter
Marilyn LampaertMoesch
show off the brass street sign presented at the January membershipmeeting – the first of 10 the City and Society are working on. Now the south endof 161
st
, Lampaert Lane was a private north-south road on Adile Lampaert’s 190-acre cattle ranch. It ran north from Cleveland to where NE 85
th
Street crosses ittoday and was fenced in on both sides to keep cattle from the road. The laneaccessed a large red barn, which sat where today’s downtown Edge Skate Park is.Future signs will be: Adair Street, Campton Road, Conrad Olson Road, GrassLawn Road, Homestead Drive, Perrigo Road, Railroad Avenue, Tosh Road andYork Road.
Free house to a good home
Anyone shopping for an 80-year-old young house? Society board memberTerri Gordon is willing to part with this one at 16641 NE 79
th
St, betweenthe YWCA apartments and Frankies restaurant. The only catch: The houseneeds to be moved off the property. Contact Terri at
425 241-5944, or leavevoice mail at 206 517-0395, or email her atstirdly@aol.com.
 
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