FORKS — “Remembering the 50s and 60s Here in Clallam County,” the sixth book with local stories by Lonnie Archibald, is available in stores throughout the county.
Clallam County residents tell of their lives back in those days when there were still irrigation ditches and milk cows in the Sequim Dungeness Valley, kicker boats and log dumps and trains in Sekiu, and theaters stretching from Sequim to Clallam Bay to Forks.
Archibald, a freelance photographer and writer, also deals with the birth of television, ice skating and roller skating and a chicken coop that never saw a live chicken … only those that were fried.
In addition: Gas station attendants who washed your windows and aired your tires, life without computers, iPods and cell phones, days in which Gene Autry and Roy Rogers rode the west, the beginning of Rock & Roll and the British Invasion; hippies and Woodstock.
With many photos, this 350-page paperback book can be found at the Sequim Museum in Sequim; Jim’s Pharmacy, Odyssey Bookshop, and Port Book and News in Port Angeles; Sunsets West Co-op in Clallam Bay, Lake Pleasant Grocery, Chinook Pharmacy, Leppell’s Flowers and Gifts and Forks Outfitters in Forks.
