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Washington Women’s Heritage Project records, 1900-2000 
University of Washington Libraries Special Collections 
Etta May Bryant Alldredge 
January 28, 1998 
Cassette 2, Side 2 
 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:01 
How old you were when your dad put electricity in the house?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:05 
I suppose I was about... see, my sister married. I was about 13 or 14, something like that, when 
he put in electric lights. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:14 
So how did you-- how did you light the house before that?  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:18 
Oh, lamps, lamps! 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:20 
Like kerosene lamps? 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:21 
Yes, kerosene.  
 
Stephanie Holan  00:22 
And that night when you were-- when you did school work, did you do it under the kerosene 
lamps? 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:26 
Yeah! 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:28 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  00:28 
We studied and on an [?eight?] by-- in wintertime, we [inaudible] and studied by lamplight. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:38 
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Wow. Wow! I didn't-- see, that's so incredible to me, because the only time we've ever used a 
kerosene lamp is camping. [Laughs]. 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:46 
Yes. Or if the lights go out, or something. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:49 
Yeah. Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  00:51 
Oh, no. 
 
Stephanie Holan  00:52 
And did you all-- did you all study together? And did your mother-- like, when you sat down to 
do your homework for school, did you all do it together in the same room?  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:01 
We just did it. I don't remember [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:03 
You just did it? Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:08 
[Laughs] I don't know, we just lived natural. I mean, we didn't do anything [?especially?], but 
just lived. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:16 
Oh, wow. So then when you were 13, your sister got married.  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:22 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  01:23 
And how did you feel when she left? Were you sad to see her go? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:29 
Oh, I don't know. It's just natural. He taught school there for one year.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:35 
Her husband did?  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:36 
And we all went to school to him. And then my sister came and fell in love after school about 
and she married him.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:45 
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Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  01:46 
She was about 16, 18, years old.  
 
Stephanie Holan  01:51 
Wow. And so then they moved away, and it was just you and your brother? 
 
Etta Alldredge  01:56 
No, he got a-- he got another school-- two different years, he got different schools and taught 
school, and they moved to wherever they're teachin' school. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:07 
So did you get to go see them a lot?  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:10 
Oh, whenever we had the chance to go, we went and saw them, yes. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:14 
And did you drive in the car?  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:15 
Oh, we-- oh, we didn't have a car then.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:21 
You didn't have a car then? 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:21 
No, not in the first-- not when-- I didn't have a car until I was 15 years old.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:26 
Oh, that's right. 
 
Etta Alldredge  02:26 
And this is all before. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:27 
So then how did you guys... When you went somewhere, did you go as a family, or did you just 
go with your dad, or...?  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:33 
Oh. Whenever anybody went or family went, we all probably went. I don't-- I don't know 
whether we all went or not. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:41 
So how did you get around? Did you have a carriage?  
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Etta Alldredge  02:44 
Oh, yes, we had a buggy.  
 
Stephanie Holan  02:49 
A buggy?  That you hooked up to the horses?  
 
Etta Alldredge  02:49 
Yeah. Yeah. We had to go by horse everywhere we went. 
 
Stephanie Holan  02:55 
Oh, wow! That was been really exciting.  
 
Etta Alldredge  03:00 
And-- well, I don't know. It is to you, but... [They laugh].  I know-- one time I was quite young -- 
Mom and Dad belonged to a Odd Fellows Lodge. She belonged to the Rebekahs, and he 
belonged to the Odd Fellows. And they'd go down and go to the meeting, and then they'd have 
dances down there. And us kids would get down-- they'd take us down there in the wagon, or, I 
mean, the sleigh, or whatever we had. And then we could play around, then we got tired, and 
then they put to bed on the back of the piano. 
 
Stephanie Holan  03:38 
They'd put you to bed on the back of the piano? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:39 
We'd sleep there until they got ready to go home. Then they'd carry us back and put us in the 
wagon or sleigh and take us home. 
 
Stephanie Holan  03:50 
So in the winter, there was a sleigh to go over the snow? 
 
Etta Alldredge  03:53 
Oh, yes, there was a sleigh then.  
 
Stephanie Holan  03:54 
And then in the spring and the fall, there was a wagon?  
 
Etta Alldredge  03:57 
Yeah. Well, it wasn't a wagon, it was a buggy. It [?must say might?] have two seats anyway; it 
was a buggy.  
 
Stephanie Holan  04:05 
Wow. So what was it like when you guys got the car? What kind of car was it? What did it look 
like?  
 
Etta Alldredge  04:10 
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Well, I don't know. Pretty good, I guess. I used to drive it all over the everything. I can't-- the 
kids, I tell the kids, and they can't imagine me driving it [laughs]. My brother, he learned first, 
and then he taught me. Of course, he-- I'd go with him whenever he'd go. I didn't-- but he-- he 
taught me how to drive. Then pretty soon I was driving myself, then, all over every place. 
 
Stephanie Holan  04:44 
So Wilma is your older sister. And she-- and when did your older brother get married?  
 
Etta Alldredge  04:51 
Well, after the World War declared, 1916, I think it was, wasn't it?  
 
Stephanie Holan  04:56 
World War I?  
 
Etta Alldredge  04:57 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  04:58 
Right around there, yeah. 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:00 
Well, then my brother signed up and to join up. 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:06 
Oh, to go to war. 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:07 
To war. Well, then and Dad decided we'd take a trip. So we took a trip down to San Francisco, 
and we camped out all the way. They didn't have hotels or anything. We camped all the way 
down there every night. 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:26 
Wow! You camped-- that's so amazing. You camped.  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:32 
Yeah, camped.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:33 
And what did you guys do when you were in San Francisco?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:36 
Oh, well, we didn't do much of anything. We just looked the city over and went out to the big 
park, went out the big park and looked at the park. We didn't stay very long in there. My brother 
left just then go back home to-- and he went to the war, then.  
 
Stephanie Holan  05:52 
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Out of San Francisco? 
 
Etta Alldredge  05:53 
Yeah, out of San Francisco. Took the train back to home. 
 
Stephanie Holan  05:56 
And how long was he gone for in the war?  
 
Etta Alldredge  05:58 
Well, he-- they-- he was gone long enough that they had him all-- they had them all on the boat. 
They were just ready to sail and the armistice was signed. So he didn't get to go to war.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:14 
Oh. 
 
Etta Alldredge  06:14 
Then he came back home and helped my dad on the ranch. And then he married. 
 
Stephanie Holan  06:21 
And did he marry before Wilma did? 
 
Etta Alldredge  06:24 
Huh?  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:24 
Did he marry before Wilma? Isn't your sister's name Wilma?  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:26 
Oh, no, Wilma was married already.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:28 
Oh, so Wilma left first.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:31 
Yeah, Wilma left first.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:32 
And then...  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:33 
Then he married [inaudible].  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:36 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:37 
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And one time... We had deep snow, and it froze to solid-- that working?  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:47 
Yeah, I was just looking at it real quick.  
 
Etta Alldredge  06:48 
Deep snow, and it froze to sol-- we could walk on top of the snow.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:53 
Like ice? 
 
Etta Alldredge  06:54 
No, it was just snow, just like walking on the floor.  
 
Stephanie Holan  06:58 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:00 
And then my sister and I was -- she didn't have any children then -- we decided we went up on 
top of that mountain where the skis, and we decided to roll down. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:09 
To roll down the mountain?  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:10 
Yeah. [Laughs] we did, but we both got sick. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:16 
You got sick after that? 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:17 
Got sick. She's sick, I guess.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:19 
Oh, no.  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:21 
Wasn't very long. We wasn't sick very long, but we got sick.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:24 
Was it worth it? Was it fun? 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:26 
I'd have guessed so. 
 
Stephanie Holan  07:26 
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[Laughs] Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  07:32 
And then, this happened before we had a car or anything. Daddy would take and-- we always had 
a big garden. We had to pull weeds, of course, and do all... We did our share of the work. We 
milked cows. He had five or six cows, and we all milked cows.  
 
Stephanie Holan  07:52 
Yeah? 
 
Etta Alldredge  07:53 
And he'd dig a big, long ditch, and he buried the cabbage, and he put this cabbage down in this 
ditch. And put right out of the, you know, [?cut it all?] and put down. And then he'd put a lot of 
straw on top of that, and then he'd put dirt on top of that, and bury it. And whenever we want 
cabbage, he'd go out and dig that up and that cabbage would come out just as-- just like we put it 
in there.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:25 
Oh, really? 
 
Etta Alldredge  08:26 
And nobody had cabbage. 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:29 
Oh, wow. You would think it would go bad in there, but no?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:33 
Oh, no, it was just as firm and just as nice as it could be.  
 
Stephanie Holan  08:39 
And the animals didn't get to it or anything like that?  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:41 
Oh, no, he buried it. 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:42 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:43 
In the yard and had the snow-- oh, it had snow about two feet high on it, on top of it. 
 
Stephanie Holan  08:48 
That's amazing. It's like-- just like a refrigerator, all packed in there [laughs].  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:53 
Put in this just like this.  
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Stephanie Holan  08:56 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  08:57 
And then in the winter time, Dad always killed a great big beef and a hog too. But he put this 
beef in a cheese cloth, and then he'd take-- put a pulley on it and take it up the top of the barn, 
and it'd freeze up there. We didn't have no freezer or nothing. And it was freeze up in. Whenever 
we needed beef, why, he'd go out and lower that pulley and take a saw and saw a chunk of beef 
out. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:35 
Oh, wow. And then you'd make dinner.  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:38 
And make [?poulet?] stew or whatever Mom wanted to cook. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:42 
So did you-- so you helped milk the cows--  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:45 
Oh, yes. 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:46 
--and feed the hogs, and-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  09:47 
Yes, I-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  09:48 
--pulled the weeds. 
 
Etta Alldredge  09:49 
Yes [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  09:50 
And did you help in the house too? Did you help--?  
 
Etta Alldredge  09:52 
Oh, yes, I always helped Mom in the house. I washed dishes and did everything like [inaudible].  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:00 
Wow. And you sewed? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:02 
Oh, yes.  
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Stephanie Holan  10:03 
With one of the old fashioned--?  
 
Etta Alldredge  10:06 
Just a sewing machine with a treadle. Treadle.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:08 
With your foot? Oh, wow! And you'd crochet, too? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:12 
Oh yes, I crocheted. Mama taught us how to crochet. And embroidery. 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:19 
So did you guys make-- did your mom make your clothes? Or did you go buy them? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:25 
Yes. Oh, no, we didn't buy them.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:26 
You made your own clothes? 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:27 
Yeah. made everything, underwear and everything.  
 
Stephanie Holan  10:30 
Wow. And did you learn how to do all of that?  
 
Etta Alldredge  10:33 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  10:36 
Wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  10:37 
After I got older, after we had a car, I went to town with Daddy one time-- I think it was had the 
car. Didn't-- we had the car. No, I think we had the horses, yet. It was about 30 miles away, the 
county seat was. We-- Daddy had to go to town for business. And I went with him. And Mama 
wanted some things to me to pick up at this [?barn?] store, dried goods store. And they sold 
everything there, practically. And I went in and Daddy left-- he left me at the store. He went 
about his business. And I went in, got whatever I want-- Mama wanted to get. And I told the 
clerk, I says, "Well, just..." She says, "Who do I charge this to?" And I said, "Oh, charge it to 
Daddy." And she said, "Well, who is your daddy?" I said, "Well, George Bryant." And of course, 
then she knew who I was [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  11:40 
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Wow-- so back then they just charged it to somebody? 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:45 
I guess-- Daddy paid it, I guess. I don't know who did it. 
 
Stephanie Holan  11:49 
So when you went the 30 miles into town, how long did it take you to get there? 
 
Etta Alldredge  11:53 
Oh, we left early in the morning, and get to town, and we never got back till way dark at night. 
Because we had the horses, and they don't go very fast.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:03 
Wow. Because, see, for me to go 30 miles in my car is like 30 minutes.  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:07 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:08 
But 30 miles on a horse is a different story.  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:12 
Yes, it sure was [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:14 
Wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  12:15 
But after I got to drive in the car, why, then I'd drive to town myself, because [inaudible] drive 
back and never thought nothing about it. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:24 
So did you have one of the-- when I-- when you say you have a car, when you had a car, I 
imagine the old Ford Model T? 
 
Etta Alldredge  12:30 
Yeah, Ford.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:31 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:32 
That's what it was.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:32 
Where did you-- where did your dad buy it from? 
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Etta Alldredge  12:35 
We bought in Colville, at a store-- one of the stores there sold cars at the time.  
 
Stephanie Holan  12:41 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  12:42 
There was another family that I took piano lessons from; they bought their first car in 1914. But 
Dad-- we didn't buy it-- Dad didn't buy his until 1915 [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  12:56 
Wow. So then, so you had the car, and this was after Wilma had moved out... and had your older 
brother moved out?What's your older brother's name again? I'm sorry. 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:06 
Winton. 
 
Stephanie Holan  13:06 
Winton. Had Winton moved out too? 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:09 
No. After he come back from the war, then he married, just married.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:13 
So he got to drive the car a little bit too?  
 
Etta Alldredge  13:16 
Oh, yes. He drove the car. And Daddy and him both took-- whenever they had to go [inaudible] 
they went with the car.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:22 
And Winton taught you how to drive the car? 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:25 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:25 
And did you teach your littler brother, Raymond? Was that your brother's name, your little 
brother's name?  
 
Etta Alldredge  13:30 
No, I think my brother taught him, I think.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:33 
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Yeah? So then when they both left, it was just you and Raymond at home with your mom and 
dad?  
 
Etta Alldredge  13:38 
No, then he grew up and he married. 
 
Stephanie Holan  13:42 
Raymond married before you married? 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:44 
Oh, no, no, no, 
 
Stephanie Holan  13:45 
No, no, no?  
 
Etta Alldredge  13:46 
No, I never, I never-- most of this all happened before I was-- I married when I was 19 years old.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:55 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:55 
Raymond married-- yes, he married before I did.  
 
Stephanie Holan  13:58 
Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  13:59 
I knew his wife [inaudible] before he married her. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:04 
Was she one of your girlfriends?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:06 
Oh, I used to-- I knew her, in the neighborhood. I mean-- knew of her. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:13 
So was your family religious at all? 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:18 
Huh?  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:19 
Was your family religious? Did you guys go to church on Sundays, or no?  
 
Etta Alldredge  14:23 
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Church? 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:24 
Mm-hmm. 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:25 
No, they didn't have any church there, anywhere around there, as I know of [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  14:31 
Oh! Well I didn't even-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:34 
Every summer, usually there was a traveling minister who'd come in. They'd put up a tent, and 
we'd go to church there, went to church there.  
 
Stephanie Holan  14:43 
Oh, wow. Wow! See, that's so amazing. 
 
Etta Alldredge  14:49 
And then one time we had a family there that-- we was going dances then; after I was 15 or 14, I 
started going to public dances. And this people would come to church and they just oh, they just 
pray and oh, they just go through all kinds of religious things. And come-- and there was 
whiskey in the neighborhood that people didn't know where it was coming from. 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:16 
Was this when alcohol was illegal?  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:19 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:19 
Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:20 
Whiskey. Distilled whiskey.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:23 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  15:23 
And come to find out, they're the one that's making all of the booze.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:28 
The minister was?  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:30 
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No, no, this people was. They'd come to church and they'd just oh, they'd just go on and pray, 
and they make like the were just...  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:39 
The holier than thou.  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:40 
Yeah. But in the meantime, they were selling whiskey to the young guys. But they got caught.  
 
Stephanie Holan  15:47 
They got caught.  
 
Etta Alldredge  15:48 
Yes, they did.  And what happened to people when they got caught back then? Well, I don't 
know. I guess they went to jail, I guess. 
 
Stephanie Holan  15:58 
They went to jail? Wow.  And so you went to the dance-- did you go to the dances down there 
too, down at the church? 
 
Etta Alldredge  16:05 
Oh, no.  
 
Stephanie Holan  16:06 
No?  
 
Etta Alldredge  16:07 
This would be in the summertime when the ministers come in and set up the tent. That's when 
they'd come in and [inaudible]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  16:21 
So how old were you when you went to your first dance? 
 
Etta Alldredge  16:28 
It was the Fourth of July, and I was watching them dance, and I wanted-- oh, I wanted to dance 
so bad, but I wasn't quite old-- I was just 14. I wasn't-- had-- I danced around with kids in these 
parties, but I didn't go to no public dance. And so Dad-- pretty soon, Daddy came along and 
says-- he called me "babe." He says, "It's time to go home, babe." Oh, I didn't want to go at all. 
And there was another young fella there and he says-- he knew not-- my dad. He says, "George," 
he says, "won't be long that you'll been taking her home." And Dad said, "No, I guess not." And 
so then-- I think then I was 14, I turned 14 August. By then, I think I went to-- started going to 
the dances after that. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:34 
Oh. Because then you were allowed to go on-- do you remember when you went on your very 
first date?  
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Etta Alldredge  17:41 
Huh? I went on several of them.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:45 
You went on several dates?  
 
Etta Alldredge  17:46 
Yeah, different boys. All the neighborhoods there. We all went together.  
 
Stephanie Holan  17:50 
Wow. And do you-- how old were you when you had your first boyfriend? 
 
Etta Alldredge  17:56 
Oh, I suppose about 15 or 16 [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  17:58 
Fifteen or sixteen? And was that when you had your first kiss? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:03 
Huh?  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:03 
Did you have your first kiss when you were 14 or 15-- or 15 or 16? 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:07 
I guess so [laughs]. I don't know I went with several of the poeple-- neighborhood guys. But they 
was all neighborhood kids, and we all-- we-- I went with them. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:20 
Wow. And so then last time we talked, you said you met your husband-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:27 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:28 
--at a dance. 
 
Etta Alldredge  18:29 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  18:29 
And you had gone with another guy, right?  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:32 
Yeah.  
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Stephanie Holan  18:33 
And you were 17...?  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:37 
EIghteen.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:37 
Eighteen when you met your husband? And then, so you met him at the dance.  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:42 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  18:42 
And then what happened after the dance?  
 
Etta Alldredge  18:44 
Well, he-- his mother came over to a neighbor of ours to have a dress made. I don't know, that 
was in the spring... I don't know when it was. And he dropped her off there, and then he came 
over to my house, and we went for a ride.  
 
Stephanie Holan  19:11 
On the-- in the car?  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:12 
In his car.  
 
Stephanie Holan  19:13 
In his car.  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:13 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  19:14 
And where'd you go? 
 
Etta Alldredge  19:15 
Oh, the road-- [inaudible]-- wasn't very far, because he had to pick his mother up after she got 
through. And then we started-- then after that, we started going pretty steady.  
 
Stephanie Holan  19:30 
Oh, yeah?  
 
Etta Alldredge  19:31 
Then I married-- then we got married on the 26th of June. 
 
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Stephanie Holan  19:36 
Oh, 26th of June. A year after you had met him? One year after you had met him? 
 
Etta Alldredge  19:43 
Well, I don't think it was quite a year. I think it was that-- in the summer, and it was in the winter 
that I met him. And yes, I guess, the winter, I met him in the winter, and then we went and got 
married in-- three months after we met [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  19:59 
So how did you know that he was the one?  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:02 
I don't know.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:03 
You don't know? 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:04 
I just [inaudible]-- I just... 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:08 
He just was. 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:09 
He just was [laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:11 
And what did he look like? Can you describe him? 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:15 
You know, I got all kinds of pictures. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:17 
Oh, you do? 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:19 
Do we got time?  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:20 
Yeah! Let's set the tape for a second, and we'll get some pictures. [Tape cuts]. Because you seem 
to have some good stories while we're going here. So this is the Coulee Dam. 
 
Etta Alldredge  20:28 
Mm-hmm. 
 
Stephanie Holan  20:28 
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OK. And your brother worked on the dam? Which one? Raymond?  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:32 
Raymond, Raymond.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:33 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  20:34 
And then this is down on the Columbia River, down by-- oh , gosh, I forgot what it is. You 
know, we should have written on this.  
 
Stephanie Holan  20:58 
You know, I think this is over-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:01 
In Yakima? 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:01 
In Eastern-- by Yakima. 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:03 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:03 
OK, I've seen this.  
 
Etta Alldredge  21:04 
Yes, yes. This is [inaudible] right down by-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:12 
This is kind of-- is this by the Gorge, sort of, right here?  
 
Etta Alldredge  21:15 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:16 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  21:16 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:17 
By George? 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:18 
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No, no. No, this is down by Columbia River [inaudible], down by Oregon.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:36 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:36 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  21:37 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:37 
I can't remember.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:39 
That's OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  21:41 
Then we went, then-- one time, we took-- my brother moved to Chicago, and then I-- we went 
back there to visit one time. And this is all Chicago. This is the Woodland Park.  
 
Stephanie Holan  21:59 
Oh, that's Woodland Park Zoo?  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:01 
And this is in Montana, that's the-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:05 
Oh, is that a geyser? 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:07 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:07 
Is that what that is? Oh, OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:10 
This is the bear that they took a picture of. I should have got these out [inaudible] [laughs].  And 
this is all in Chicago. This is Ruby, Wanda, and Barbara.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:30 
Those are your daughters? 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:31 
Uh-huh.  
 
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Stephanie Holan  22:32 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:32 
This is Ruby-- Wanda when she lived in Coos Bay. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:37 
OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:40 
This is me and her skiin'. 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:43 
Oh, this is you-- is this you? 
 
Etta Alldredge  22:45 
One of them. No, that's Wanda. And this is her girlfriend.  Snow.  
 
Stephanie Holan  22:52 
Oh, wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  22:54 
This is Ward and me's first car. That's-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  22:59 
--in Chicago? And Ward is your husband? 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:03 
Huh?  
 
Stephanie Holan  23:03 
Ward is your husband? 
 
Etta Alldredge  23:04 
Yes. This-- take it out. Coulee Dam, or, I mean Woodland Park. And this is that famous... 
[inaudible] [?those top hats?]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:32 
Is there something on the back of it?  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:34 
I don't know, maybe h-- look and see, I don't know.  
 
Stephanie Holan  23:39 
Oh, here we go.  
 
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Etta Alldredge  23:42 
Oh, I don't suppose-- there he is. Oh, yes, there he is. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:44 
Yep. Ward...  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:46 
Joshua Park Tree. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:48 
Oh. This is Ward here?  
 
Etta Alldredge  23:52 
Yeah. I guess that's him. 
 
Stephanie Holan  23:59 
That's Ward.  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:00 
Yeah. They had a big park down there with all those yucca trees. This is my grandmother. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:13 
That's your grandmother. 
 
Etta Alldredge  24:16 
This is my father. What-- oh, look at that. This is my sister and I. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:21 
Is this you?  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:22 
Mm-hmm. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:23 
Wow, you're beautiful. 
 
Etta Alldredge  24:26 
[Laughs]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:27 
You're beautiful. 
 
Etta Alldredge  24:28 
This is my sister. And this is Mr.-- my husband's mother. This is my brother. He was in the youth 
army.  
 
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Stephanie Holan  24:35 
That's Winton?  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:36 
Mm-hmm. This is my sister and her husband.  
 
Stephanie Holan  24:40 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:42 
This is my father in Spokane.  
 
Stephanie Holan  24:44 
In Spokane.  
 
Etta Alldredge  24:45 
This is Ward's brother, my husband's brother. He was in the army. Here, we had a family reunion 
here, and Wanda was just a baby. 
 
Stephanie Holan  24:59 
Oh, that's little Wanda? 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:00 
This is the-- 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:02 
Wow. Is that Ward?  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:04 
Yeah. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:06 
Oh, he had curly hair. 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:08 
Kinda. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:09 
Kinda? 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:09 
This the men that my brother went to war with. And this is what my father used to do. He-- 
they'd go around and [?fast?] thresh, and drive horses, pull them big machines around. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:23 
Oh, wow. And then, who's this?  
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Etta Alldredge  25:27 
My grandfather. 
 
Stephanie Holan  25:28 
Your grandfather? 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:28 
On my mother's side.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:29 
On your mother's side.  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:30 
Moe, Moe. His name is Moe.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:32 
OK. And then this-- 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:34 
[Inaudible] and Wanda. And then here's me and my brother. Uncle George, Aunt Jess, and my 
father, and Wanda.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:45 
Is this Winton?  
 
Etta Alldredge  25:47 
That's Raymond.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:47 
Raymond, OK. Wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  25:56 
And this is the schoolhouse I went to.  
 
Stephanie Holan  25:58 
That's the schoolhouse! Oh, wow!  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:02 
That's the schoolhouse I went to. This my mother and father and one of the grandchildren. That's 
Wanda. 
 
Stephanie Holan  26:17 
That's Wanda in this one [laughs]? 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:18 
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And this, we used to go in [inaudible] to Indian celebration, Fourth of July. And that's some of 
the Indians. 
 
Stephanie Holan  26:25 
Oh, there was an Indian cel-- that's what you did on the Fourth of July? 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:28 
Yeah, most of the time we'd go in [inaudible] and had to cross the Columbia River to get there.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:32 
And what did they do?  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:34 
Oh, they just had celebration. Run horses, just like any other celebration. But these are Indians.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:40 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:41 
This is [inaudible], my-- I knew all these kids.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:47 
And this is the baseball team?  
 
Etta Alldredge  26:49 
Yeah.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:49 
Is that what that...? Oh, wow. 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:51 
And I knew all of them.  
 
Stephanie Holan  26:53 
Did you court any of them? Any of these your boyfriend? 
 
Etta Alldredge  26:56 
No, I don't think-- I don't know. Maybe one or two. I don't know [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  27:03 
[Laughs]. 
 
Etta Alldredge  27:03 
And this is the grandchildren. 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:07 
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You were one of the grandchildren?  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:08 
No. 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:09 
No? 
 
Etta Alldredge  27:10 
All young. This is Barbara, my youngest-- oldest daughter, I think. That's my oldest 
granddaughter. This is the schoolhouse. 
 
Stephanie Holan  27:28 
That's the schoolhouse again?  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:30 
No, [?that's down in?] Rice, Washington. This my husband horses. He had horses. He 
homesteaded. And this is my property where I was raised. We cleared up-- had to clear the land. 
And he's out there. No, he's cutting wheat. This is my-- where I was raised.  
 
Stephanie Holan  27:54 
Is that the big house? OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  27:57 
That's the big house.  
 
Stephanie Holan  27:57 
And so all of this is your property here? All this land?  
 
Etta Alldredge  28:01 
This is-- yeah. This here is.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:04 
OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  28:06 
This [inaudible], at Omak. [?Had a mine?] over there. And here's a [inaudible]. [Inaudible]. 
There's me again. I had something matter with me. I had lost all my hair. I don't remember what 
was the matter with me. I had to wear that old cap.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:25 
You lo-- wait a minute, go back [laughs]. Go back. Well, how old were you when that happened? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:31 
Oh, I was married. I had babies.  
 
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Stephanie Holan  28:34 
And you lost all of your hair?  
 
Etta Alldredge  28:36 
Yeah. Some kind of a fever or something. 
 
Stephanie Holan  28:39 
Really? What happened? So you got what happened? You got sick? 
 
Etta Alldredge  28:43 
No, I wasn't ever sick, but I just lost all my hair.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:46 
It just started coming out one day?  
 
Etta Alldredge  28:47 
I don't know. I had to wear that old cap to cover my head.  That's my brother. We had a goat. Oh, 
had so much fun with him. That's me and my younger brother.  
 
Stephanie Holan  28:59 
Raymond? 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:01 
This. See, we had a big yard here for horses, the barn was down here, and then a barn over here. 
And that-- I can't see, that [inaudible]. This is my brother.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:12 
Raymond?  
 
Etta Alldredge  29:12 
This-- my husband caught a bunch of fish.  I should have stood over there where you wouldn't.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:20 
Oh, it's OK. I'm OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:27 
This is down in Coos Bay. And then this my daughter in her husband run a service station in 
Kettle Falls for a couple of years.  
 
Stephanie Holan  29:37 
Which daughter? 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:38 
Barbara. My oldest one. 
 
Stephanie Holan  29:39 
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Barbara, OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  29:40 
And then they'd go over Tonasket, and he was hauling logs over there. And it was winter over 
there. This is my mother. She's out the yard. And this is when we down in Mexico. 
 
Stephanie Holan  29:53 
Who went to Mexico? 
 
Etta Alldredge  29:55 
When we went to Cali-- San Francisco, we went down to Mexico.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:02 
Oh!  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:03 
And this neighbors. We-- they all... And we had to camp out all the time.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:09 
Wow.  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:09 
This is my [?younger brother?] [inaudible]. This is a neighbor. This is my Daddy.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:16 
This is your dad? 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:18 
Yeah, you can tell by that hat. This my father. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:23 
Wow. And this is the old car? Or is that a newer one? 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:26 
[Crosstalk] now this is the-- just a son in law.  
 
Stephanie Holan  30:29 
Oh, OK.  
 
Etta Alldredge  30:34 
This is taken in my-- our home. That's [inaudible]. I had a piano and I had-- my cat slept on top 
of that piano. Here's me, here's my brother and his wife and [?Gloria?]. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:52 
Is this Winton or Raymond?  
 
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Etta Alldredge  30:53 
Winton. 
 
Stephanie Holan  30:54 
Winton, OK. 
 
Etta Alldredge  30:56 
You see this cat slept on top of the piano. This is my neighbor. There's my-- one of the cats I 
had. This is me. I was fat [laughs].  
 
Stephanie Holan  31:10 
Oh.  
 
Etta Alldredge  31:11 
This is Ward and the neighbors. This is the schoolhouse; the kids went to school. This is Wanda. 
 
Stephanie Holan  31:23 
Wan-- that's Wanda? She looks like Connie. She looks exactly like Connie. 
 
Etta Alldredge  31:30 
Oh, yeah, I told that resemblance. 
 