It’s TBT – so get set for a blast back in time through the pages of the Bainbridge Review.
This week, the Thursday, Jan. 18, 1951 edition.
Page One
Power, ‘Phone Lines Down As Hurricane Wind Smashes Point White Dock
Utility companies still were struggling yesterday to restore service in the aftermath of Monday’s wind storm of hurricane force.
Rated as one of the most damaging gales in Island history, the nine-hour southwesterly blow closed Island schools for a day, crippled the Bremerton-Point White ferry service and caused electric power and telephone outages ranging from six hours to three days.
Lack of lights and heat forced closing of schools Monday.
Expensive rock rip-rap work will be required to put the Point White road into shape to withstand another such storm, L.G. Norman, New Brooklyn, county road supervisor, said. This highway, completely rebuilt by the county two years ago, lost some of its roadbed as huge waves pounded over the bulkhead.
The fury of the storm was first noticed at 7:03 o’clock Monday morning when a tree crashed through main transmission lines of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company in the mainland district of Manette, thus severing Island electric service.
Weather observers said one gust, four hours later, reached hurricane force — 75 miles an hour.
Returns from Snohomish
Mrs. M.J. Lytle, Port Blakely, returned to the Island last week from Snohomish. She had been living with her sister, Mrs. James Morrison.
Visits Family Home
Mrs. Harvey Noble (Anna Benson), Seattle, spent the weekend at the Rolling Bay home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldor Benson.
Page Two
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Page Eight
State to Improve Old Man House, Indian Dwelling Site Near Agate Span
Plans for the development of a historic showplace at the site of Old Man House, tribal camp of early Northwest Indians and one of the Northwest’s largest Indian dwellings were completed last weekend by the advisory board to the State Parks and Recreation Commission.
Improvements planned are a parking area, a trail to the site, a perpetual marker, a three-foot sea wall and a temporary cedar structure.
The exact location of Old Man House, near the Agate Pass Bridge, is unknown, although University of Washington archeologists have defined the probable area from Indian relics and evidences of construction which have been found.
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