75 years ago
December 9, 1944
At the Monte theater, “The Great Moment” with Joel McCrea and Betty Field and “The Whistler” with Richard Diz. At the D and R “Alan Ladd is back with a bang” starring with Loretta Young in “And Now Tomorrow. Warners theaters in Aberdeen and Hoquiam are showing “The Very Thougth of You” billed as “a couple of wolves in G.I. clothing in a woo-woo wonderful show.” The New Bijou is showing “The Seventh Cross” with Spencer Tracy and Maisie Goes to Reno” starring Ann Sothern — “She’s a winking, witch with a twinkling twitch!” And at the Roxy, “Tombstone, the Town too Tough to Die.”
50 years ago
December 9, 1969
The Daily World has a new editor.
Adrian M. (Ade) Fredericksen, a veteran Harbor newsman, has been named editor, Paul Snider, general manager, announced this morning.
Fredericksen, 54, has been a working newsman, sports writer and editor on the Harbor for more than 27 years beginning with the old Grays Harbor Washingtonian morning publication in Hoquiam, in 1942.
In recent years, his column “White Space” has been a popular weekly feature of the editorial page.
25 years ago
December 9, 1994
When the historic Brooklyn Tavern burned to the ground four years ago, Brooklyn residents had two choices — go thirsty or hit the road.
The nearest spot a man could quench his thirst was 18 miles in either direction out the tortuous North River Road that links tiny Brooklyn to Artic, Oakville and the rest of the world.
Brooklyn without a tavern was unthinkable. The humble, rustic tavern, first built in 1927, made no bones about the fact that it accommodated loggers. A “snoose creek” of running water flowed right under the bar stools so the men had only to look down when they spit their tobacco.
Now little more than a gathering of homes and a church, Brooklyn had only its tavern to remind it of those days. It bound the community together and it had to be rebuilt, its owner Ray Damitio of Montesano vowed.
Taking hammer in hand, the 67-year-old Damitio began. He picked away at the project for four years, working on it when he wasn’t over at the Duane Dewees car dealership in Aberdeen which he partly owns, and when he wasn’t cheering on his wife as she raced stock cars. The tavern reopened Nov. 18.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
