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Fire at the Chinese laundry
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February 17, 2013 |
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Jack Flinn |
Well, looking back
into my memory I recall a fire. It was in the
early 1950s, not sure of the exact year.
I was a young boy on my bike, and one night I
heard the sirens, so I followed the sound, which
took me down the street to the fairgrounds.
As I went under the railroad trestle on the way,
in front of me was a huge fire ... the laundry
was ablaze, and I believe it was a Chinese
laundry.
If a person looks straight ahead when passing
under said trestle, you will see a vacant lot
where that laundry once sat ... looking back.
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I was there that night of the fire, it burned
big and fast due to all the cleaning fluids and
the building being so old. That laundry was the
Crystal Laundry, owned by the Tadaka family.
Myself and Jimmy Whitcomb were there that night,
Jim ran over a fire hose, Stub Lande gave him a
ticket and Jim tore it up. I have to add a note
here. The Tadaka family was a hard working,
close family of Japanese descent; good citizens,
good honest people.
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Don Hoagland
Bonners Ferry
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The people who owned it were Japanese and were
really nice.
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Del Irons
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