hporter
Active Member
We used to traverse that bridge several times each year.Sam Hill Bridge
My parents were born and raised in Yakima and Sunnyside, Washington, so we would make the trip from Springfield, Oregon to Sunnyside for family visits when I was a kid.
I loved it when we got to drive on the old highway on the Oregon side that sits above I-84. All the little pullouts that the CCC built back in the 30's were neat. And of course Multinomah falls was always a favorite stop.
And my Grandfather was involved in the construction of several of the dams on the Columbia back in the day. I still have a photo of him in his steam shovel somewhere. He passed before I was born, and both my parents are gone now too. I wish I could recall now which dams they were.
All the years in life go by, and then you look back to the past and wish so much to be able to have another conversation with those in the family that came before you. Information that might have passed in light conversation, that would be so valuable to you now. I sure wish more wisdom could have come to me sooner in life. There is so much I would like to know, that can never be learned now that they are all gone.