"The Hall"

Most people called it this.  A building used for all kinds of occasions. "A place of entertainment for all. The residences were in charge of nearly all of the events and did most of the "bullcooking".
Movies were presented once or twice a week, Was there a charge or did someone foot the bill?  They were well attended until the fellow from Wieppe brought the "TV" sets to Headquarters.
Many and all kinds of parties were held in the hall; card parties, retirement parties.  The Christmas Party was a big event.  The school put on a program, lots of singing; Santa Clause came from Lewiston lugging sacks of candies and toys for the wee ones, and listened to every ones request for a good Christmas. (There was always a big tree with all the decorations and lights.  Bessie Smith says she will always remember the sleigh and reindeer made of plywood and painted so nicely)
On Sunday mornings, Sunday School and Church services were held. There were some talented and gifted voices among the women, I am told.
The hall had a main floor and a stage at one end. The main floor was nearly the size of a regulation basket-ball court, just lacked a few feet. the grade school boys took to basket-ball like ducks took to water.  Did they ever win a game?  Town teams played at the hall and Quick Draw did not recall the men ever loosing a game.

Rauch House

Our house was two bunkhouses set in a "T' with the porch to get from one to the other.  The kitchen and Eric and my room was in the top of the "T".  The living room and Mon and Dad's bedroom was in the main part. Mary and Judy's bedroom was a step or two down from what was the back door.
All I remember was it was cold and dark on the porch getting to bed. There were things lining the wall and for a four year old it was a long walk.
I am told we had a shared spicket between us and Bess's house, that Mom and her took turns keeping warm so as not to freeze.  The outhouse was fancy with two holes and a heat lamp for a light.

The School

"Do we realize how lucky our children were to have had this wonderful start.  Wonderful for them, for us, for Idaho, for America."-Anita Scott

     Mrs. Henry Mathias, Mrs. Walt Hornsby, Mrs. Ellis Cole, Mabel Riggers, and Thelma Greer were some.

"There were two school buildings, an upper elementary and lower elementary. In the upper elementary, students entered a large two room building with low (eight foot) ceilings and windows all they way around.  As you entered the building you were in a long hallway that led to a sunken area.  The sunken area had a drinking fountain in the middle with restrooms on each side.  In 1962, only one room, the one on the left, was used as a classroom, the other was used for storage.
The lower elementary school held grades one to three depending on the number of students in each class. As you entered there was a place for your coats and boots. Mrs. Riggers classroom could barely hold all of the  material she had kept over the years. There never seemed to be enough room for the students.
At the end of the 1968-69 school year the school was closed."-Fred Smith

The Grocery store

"Where most of us shopped and stopped to exchange the latest news (or rumors)"-Anita Scott

The Drugstore

"The Drug Store-where, besides the soda fountain; the Post Office was located for many years.  Also, the only public telephone was in that much used booth on the drug store porch.  The stage from Lewiston pulled up in front and the passengers spilled out most every night about 8:00 pm Sunday nights when the loggers returned from town.  The drug store was a beehive of activity as the men had a quick treat at the soda fountain and made last minute purchases before the speeders left for the camps." - Anita Scott

Townsites

Evidently there was "townsite 1" and "townsite 2" and "townsite 3"; which I knew as "the Circle" and "where we lived" and "where Virgil Baldwin lived".
They were three different areas of the valley, but still much the same. all the people knew each other and watched out for each other. As a kid, you could be disciplined by Maude Vaughn or Neomi Smith or Velma Anderson or Bess Dickinson or Anita Scott or Alice Rauch, it was all the same.

Logging Superintendent

"Headquarters was governed by the "Logging Superintentant" who seemingly subscribed to the tenet; the least government is the best government. He was helped by the residents who exercised self-discipline and self-government. In the "50's it was forbidden ground for corporate hierarchy to tremmel." Howard Bradbury,Wallace Bowl,Gordon Dickinson; each in turn ran Headquarters. "a freedom existed that was seldom experienced elsewhere".-Wayne McGaw

"Children roamed freely, as long as they didn't play "on the tracks", around the machinery or shops; deer often wandered the streets and through yards as did horses. Bears sometimes romped about town, but the back porch was off limits" to those critters.-Wayne McGaw

Entering Headquarters

Coming out of Pierce, passing the Standard Oil Plant of Lawrence Mays, through Hollywood, Cardiff Spur, CTPA, around the bend of Dogpatch and down the hill; "you entered a new and different world. Trains, speeders, warehouse, parking lot,wooden sidewalks, cookhouse, bunkhouses, company house" in townsite 1,2 3 (four was out of town),"grocery store,drug store, community hall and post office. All of which served as a "hub" for supplying outlying logging camps."--Wayne McGaw

Headquarters,Idaho

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