Historic Adventures and Stories Circa 1900-1920
Explore the adventures and stories from the early 1900s to the 1920s, including a deep-sea fireman's journey, salmon fishing tales, and encounters with lighthouses and rough weather. Enjoy the historical images and narratives capturing the essence of the era.
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Circa 1910
Adventures of a Farm Boy who Became a Deep Sea Fireman; circa 1919 Out then the Golden Gate, the mostbeautiful harbor in the world...Thence south, empty, to Astoria where we picked up six million feet of timber in a raft to tow south to San Diego. Long, slow, lazy days, making no more than 3 knots1...We rigged a fishing line on it and caught beautiful king salmon on the way. Catch one at 11 oclock, off with head and tail clean and slice into steaks. Ready to eat at 1130 and go on watch with full belly. The rest of us ateat 12 noon but there was alwaay plenty of salmon. We had no refrigerator, just a cooler on the top deck and the meat got pretty raunchy2after a couple of weeks, so lovely salmon was a Godsend. 1. Knots are the way that speed on a boat is measured. Going 3 knots means that the boat is going slowly. Smelly. 2.
Sometime between 1908-1962
Historic Structure Report You turn in at night1, und dere iss a lighthouse outside your cabin window. In de morning, you gets up--and were, py Yesus iss de same...lighthouse! You stand and talk mit somebody until you get sick of him, so you valk avay. You go around de deckhouse2--und you run right into him head-on. Dese tugs iss so little you can t get away from nobotty! 1. 2. Go to sleep. Another part of the towboat.
Circa 1920
Dan Thomsens Records It shut in thick with hail and rain squalls1. The HERCULES stood up on end at times2, and had it not been for the automatic towing machines on the whipping hawser3we would have parted4. Some of the hands thought we would never weather it. 1. 2. 3. 4. The weather was bad. The boat tipped to one side. Part of the boat. Died. Circa 1908
Circa 1910
