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Twenty-nine Years Ago --• by Matt Strieby t:~-:.. SOUTHERN 1111 OREGON IIII HISTORICAL 1111 - SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES James Kuntz, Medford, President Marjorie Nichols, Ashland, First Vice President Jean Smith, Central Point, Second Vice President Cindy Faubion, Gold Hill, Secreta ry Vern Arnold, Medford, Treasurer Judith BatT, Medford Anne Billeter, Medford Gary Breeden, Medfo rd Jon Deason, Medford Edmund Dews, Ashl and Mary Foster, Medford Gerald Latham, Medford Janie Stewart, Talent Dr. Gary H. Wheeler, Medford Samuel Whitford, Medford ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Samuel J. Wegner, Executive Director Brad Linder, Historic Resources Director Joy B. Dunn, Programs Director Tidal waves triggered by the 1964 Alaskan Maureen Smith, Finance Director earthquake devastated Crescent City, Susan Cox-Smith, Membership California. Raging water swept structures off Coordinator their foundations (top), blocking U.S. Stacey Williams, Public Relations Highway 101. A ruptured pipeline ignited a Coo rdinator fire at the Texaco Oil storage plant (right). TABLE ROCK SENTINEL SOHS # 14235, # 14236 Natalie Brown, Head of Communications Services SHOCK OF THE STORM Catherine Noah, Editor Matt Strieby, Photographer The Table Rock Sentinel is published n the growing light of morning, bimonthly by the Southern Oregon Histori cal residents of Crescent City, California, Soc iety as a benefit of membership. Other stared in disbelief at the debris-strewn two and a half million board feet of lumber benefits include ArtiFACTS, a monthly I newsletter; discounts at the Society's History streets of their popular beach community, spilled its contents, plastering the area with Store; and invi tations to programs and special which now looked more like a battle zone wood and mud for miles. A Texaco Oil events throughout the year. Administrati ve than a tourist haven. The previous evening storage plant burned furiously after rushing and membership offices are at the Southern Oregon History Center, 106 N. Central of March 27, 1964, a massive earthquake water ruptured a pipeline. According to one Avenue, Medford, OR 97501 -5926. Current had rocked south central Alaska and had eyewitness report, not a single downtown copies of the Sentinel are avai lab le for $4.95 each; back issues are $5.95 each. triggered tidal waves that slammed into business had escaped harm. POSTMASTER: Please send Change of beaches, ports, and ocean-side The aftermath shocked residents and Address (form 3579) to Southern Oregon communities from British Columbia to visitors alike. Entrances to the community Historical Society, 106 N. Central Avenue, Medford, OR 97501-5926. northern California. Crescent City was hit quickly were blocked, and National Guard Copyright © 1993 by Southern Oreogn hardest. Three huge waves, estimated to troops patrolled the streets under martial Historical Society. ISSN #0732-0523. All have varied between six and twelve feet law to prevent looting of devastated ri ghts reserved. No part of thi s publication may be printed without written permission high, swept through a fifty-six-block-area businesses. Accustomed to years of false from the Society. of its unprotected downtown in the early alarms, many residents had ignored the CONTRIBUTIONS: Address all editorial morning hours of March 28, the day before previous night's tidal wave warnings with communications to Table Rock Sentinel, 106 N. Central Avenue, Medford, OR Easter. The waves, as well as logs and tragic consequences: ten deaths and fifteen 97501-5926. We are happy to consider other debris they brought with them, missing persons were reported. Del Norte queries and contributions. All material must smashed into buildings, inflicting heavy County Sheriff Oswald Hovgaard be identified with the sender's name and address, and will be returned wi th sufficient damage and, in some cases, sweeping estimated the total damage to the ~.... postage. Care is taken with contributions, but entire structures off their foundations. Like community to be at least $20 million. :::: we are not responsible for damage or loss. an angry child, waves tossed cars about as The Society disclaims any responsibility for facts or opinions expressed in signed if they were toys. The city's docks were Matt Strieby is a photographer at the contributions. damaged badly, and a barge loaded with Southern Oregon Historical Society. _____............... TABLE ROCK ________, VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2 ENTINEL MARCH/APRIL 1993 2 10 14 FEATURES 2 Rose Maddox: The Sweetheart of Hillbilly Swing by Charlie Seemann Ashland's Rose Maddox, onc@ one of the West Coast's hottest country music acts, is still going strong - in spite of a heart attack that nearly took her life. 10 Lindy's: The House That Hooch Built by Steve M. "WYatt In its glory days, this dance hall south of Roseburg- now Lindy's Trading Post- played host to Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Rose Maddox, not to mention dancing bears and barroom brawls. 14 Magic Mirrors & Ground Glass: A Half Century of Photographic Invention and Ingenuity by Natalie Brown The quest for capturing an image took nearly three centuries. Once photography was invented, however, it took the world by storm - leading to inventions and improvements that soon made everyone a photographer. DEPARTMENTS Twenty-nine Years Ago (inside front cover) 22 Reflections on the Past 23 Life in the Past Lane 24 Then and Now From the Collection (inside back cover) Front cover: Hand-tinted photo of Rose Maddox. Back cover: An advertisement for Bob Wills and the Texas Photo courtesy Rose Maddox Playboys performing at Lindy's in Roseburg. Poster courtesy Lindy"s Trading Post ose SWEETHEART OF HILLBILLY lNG By Charlie Seemann trains of the old Woody Lula and her husband, Charlie, sold all their Guthrie song possessions for thirty-five dollars and, with their five S"Philadelphia Lawyer" unmarried children, began hitchhiking west. In mingle with the cigarette Mississippi, where they stopped to earn food money, they smoke in the dimly lit Elks met a young couple who showed them how to hop railroad Lodge in downtown boxcars, a mode of transportation they took the rest of the way Ashland. The singer is an to California. Riding the rails during the Depression was a energetic, silver-haired, sixty­ dangerous business, especially with small children. Sympathetic seven-year-old grandmother who railroad workers helped them along the way, hiding them from belts out song after song to a the railroad bulls. The Salvation Army provided them with spellbound audience. She is Rose Maddox, legendary country food.2 music pioneer who helped pave the way for many later female Their journey ended in Oakland, California. The artists and whose classic performances have influenced the likes Maddoxes took up residence in Pipe City, a community of of Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris. With her migrants living in large sections of unused sewer pipe. trademark upraised fist, Rose signals the band to end the song; as she leaves the stage she is surrounded by fans - both young and old. Her style appeals not only to older folks who have followed her since the late 1930s when she began her career From sharecropping with the Maddox Brothers and Rose, but to a new generation that became familiar with her music in the 1970s and 1980s. to stardom: Today Rose is still going strong, traveling and performing Ashland resident regularly in spite of a serious heart attack that nearly took her life in 1988. Rose Maddox's The Maddox family story is like something out of Steinbeck, a classic tale of dust bowl-era migration to the hanky-tonk voice promised land in California, of hardship, courage, and triumph. Rose was born August 15, 1925, in Boaz, Alabama, into a launched a family of six other children. In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, mother Lula Maddox, a matriarch who ruled with a singing career that firm, guiding hand, decided the family should seek its fortune in California. The Maddoxes abandoned their sharecropper farm has spanned more and joined th.e stream of dispossessed Southerners and Midwesterners heading for California. I than five decades. 2 TABLE ROCK__ VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2 MARCH/APRIL 1993 ~: S - 2 10 14 FEAT U R ES 2 Rose Maddox: The Sweetlieartof Hillbilly Swing by Charlie Seemann Ashland’s Rose Maddox, once one of the West Coast’s hottest country music acts, is still going strong — in spite of a heart attack that nearly took her life. 10 Lindy’s: The House That Hooch Built by Steve M. ‘~4’57att In its glory days, this dance hall south of Roseburg — now Lindy’s Trading Post — played host to Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Rose Maddox, not to mention dancing bears and barroom brawls. 14 Magic Mirrors & Ground Glass: A Half Century of Photographic Invention and Ingenuity by Natalie Brown The quest for capturing an image took nearly three centuries. Once photography was invented, however, it took the world by storm — leading to inventions and improvements that soon made everyone a photographer. DEPARTMENTS Twenty-nine Years Ago (inside front cover) 22 Reflections on the Past 23 Life in the Past Lane 24 Then and Now From the Collection (inside back cover) Front cover: Hand-tinted photo of Rose Maddox. Back cover: An advertisement for Bob Wills and the Texas Photo courtesy Rose Maddox Playboys performing at Lindys in Roseburg. Poster courtesy Lindys Trading Post ose SWEETHEART OF HILLBILLY lNG By Charlie Seemann trains of the old Woody Lula and her husband, Charlie, sold all their Guthrie song possessions for thirty-five dollars and, with their five S"Philadelphia Lawyer" unmarried children, began hitchhiking west. In mingle with the cigarette Mississippi, where they stopped to earn food money, they smoke in the dimly lit Elks met a young couple who showed them how to hop railroad Lodge in downtown boxcars, a mode of transportation they took the rest of the way Ashland.

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