Woodmen of the World Hall
Posted January 1, 2014 at 5:45 am by Tim Dustrude
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Here’s this month’s little bit of history, Part V in our series from the San Juan Historical Museum…
An alert eye will see that these two images from the Woodmen of the World Hall, built at Madden’s Corner in 1905, are from two different eras. The ticket dated 1937 is from a dance held many years after this group of about 200 people posed in their best party attire around 1910.
Al Sundstrom recalls buying the hall for $321 after the lodge disbanded in the early 1940s. He disassembled the building, salvaging the island grown Douglas fir and French-milled timber dance floor, which were sold for other uses.
The San Juan Historical Museum would like to add more names to the islanders pictured here. A few names have already been written on the back of the original photo – Julius Johnson, Art Erickson, Steve Boyce, Mrs. Sandwith, Mr. and Mrs. Thrones and Mrs. Merrifield. Please contact the museum if you can identify more people. www.sjmuseum.org
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We found this, and other dance tickets in a cupboard of our 1927 farmhouse on Bailer Hill Road. The discovery indicates that the then owners of the home, the Beigen’s, were frequent participants in the dances that took place there. As we are always looking for clues about the Beigen’s, this was a nice discovery.
Thank you, Sandy. We hope your comment and sharing of the dance ticket image will bring some more interest and identification.
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