Every profession has its own lingo, its way of talking about its work. The timber business jargon is especially colorful, though it differs somewhat from region to region. Take the words logger and lumberjack: on the North Coast, we had loggers in the woods, but in Minnesota, lumberjacks cut trees. Large pots of Arbuckle are visible on the tables of this timber cookhouse in the [...]
Main Street looking east, c. 1934. Main Street in Mendocino looking east, c. 1934. Bishop's General Store can be seen at the far left. The next building to its right is the Remedy Store with its distinctive round sign in front on the street. The buildings on the right, on the south side of Main Street, were owned by the Union Lumber Company, later [...]
Float for the Fourth of July parade in Mendocino, 1902. Little girls on the wagon dressed as angels are identified as: Isabelle Lyons, center; Laing Chambers, Hazel Packard, Kathryn Boyle and Genie Daniels. Mike Nolan is holding the horses. (Gift of Emery Escola) June 13, 1913 - Mendocino County Sheriff Ralph Byrnes raided the homes and businesses of Joseph Granskog and Michael Nolan, searching [...]
June 12, 1885 - Inez Milliken Philbrick was born in Mendocino, the third of six children born to James and Lizzie Milliken. Inez grew up in Mendocino, graduating from Mendocino High School in 1904. After attending San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) to obtain her teaching degree, she returned to Mendocino County to teach in the local schools. Inez married John Philbrick in [...]
In late May, the Kelley House welcomed Mendocino High School students and gave them a glimpse of what life was like for people their age over 100 years ago. There were no phones! Kids rode horses to school or walked. Teenagers dressed up and went to tea parties, of all things. Life on the coast at the turn of the century was truly tough. Students [...]
C. O. Packard with His Grandchildren, 1917. Left to right: Violet Clyma, Harold Salvador, C. O. Packard, Dorothy Kirkwood, and Buster Salvador. They are on the front porch of his home, located on the northeast corner of Little Lake and Kasten Streets. Mr. Packard was an early-day druggist and business man, who had a store in a now-gone building on Main Street, just two doors [...]
Studio portrait of three of the Napoleon and Delia Bever children: Ann, Charles, and Sam, c. 1888. They are posed as if playing chess with youngest brother, Charles, standing in the back. June 6, 1942 - Charles Bever died at the Fort Bragg hospital at the age of 66 from heart disease. Auggie Heeser, editor and proprietor of the Beacon, began Charles’ obituary, “It [...]
Lizzie Milliken with her children and grandchildren, 1921-1922. Back row L - R: Beth Milliken Chambers, Sadie Milliken Blosser, Roy Blosser, Alden Rice, Lizzie Milliken, Eva Milliken Rice, Inez Milliken Philbrick. Middle row: Dorothy Blosser, Faith Milliken Henderson, Pat Henderson, Elizabeth Rice. Front row: Iny Philbrick, Margie Philbrick. (Gift of Catherine G. Blosser, Sadie Milliken Blosser Collection, Kelley House Photographs) June 3, 1922 - [...]
The Kelley House Museum is bringing back the boogie with a community-curated heartfelt love letter to local musical legends, Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys. Beginning on June 2nd and running through August 28th, the exhibit includes original albums, posters, flyers, newspaper articles, ticket stubs, and more, some of which were donated by community members who remember the Cat Mother years fondly. Cat Mother was [...]
View of businesses on the north side of Main Street in Mendocino, looking northwest, c. 1877. On the right is the home of William Gibbs, aka “Sam Slick," who operated Sam Slick's Saloon in the front part of his house. Gibbs and his family lived in the rear. Next business to the left is the C. O. Packard Drug Store. This space also included his brother [...]