Based on an earlier post on this site these girls are planting trees as part of the Albina Improvement program.
The photo was taken on Thursday, November 1, 1962 – two days after the Cuban Missile Crisis ended (10-16-62 to 10-28-62).
That looks like a nice Jeep (?) parked at the curb with its door open.
These girls were my contemporaries; I wonder what the current story is on each of them. The tall “nerdy” girl with glasses, looks like many other nerdy girls I encountered in my years of public elementary school.
I never had a Camp Fire Girl as a girlfriend, or anything. But, when I was a Boy Scout, we used to make up raunchy jingles about them, sitting ’round our campfires.
It’s interesting how shyness is so clearly seen in the stances of some of these girls.
“We got our start as Camp Fire Girls in 1910, founded by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife, Charlotte Vetter Gulick. They believed girls deserved the outdoor learning experiences that boys had and wanted to help “guide young people on their journey to self-discovery.”
Campfire Girls has been rebranded as just Camp Fire and it now is open to all young people.
A few months ago I found my old Campfire girl vest and beads and scrapbook. Didn’t want to just throw them out, and after much vetting the OHS accepted them into their permanent collection! Needless to say, the 1950s scrapbook was hysterical.
This photo was taken just over two weeks after the Columbus Day storm on October 12, 1962, which saw the damage and destruction hundreds of trees in the metro area.
Oregonian November 2, 1962 —- Girls Group Plants Tree
A flowering cherry tree will be planted in the Albina Neighborhood Improvement area at 10 am Saturday by two Camp Fire Girl groups, as part of the Urban Renewal tree planting project sponsored by Portland General Electric Co. in conjunction with the federal government.
Sixth grade Camp Fire Girls from Capitol Hill School have invited fourth grade Camp Fire Girls from Humbolt School to participate in the planting ceremony.
The ritual, planned by the girls, will include songs, a short dedication speech and recitation of a poem.
Mrs. Burton Goodrich is Capitol Hill guardian. Guardian of Humbolt School group is Mrs. John Ivory.
Would be nice to see a photo of that tree today.
It appears that there is a small child preparing to drive off in the red jeep.
Right after the storm our neighbor from across the street walked over and presented my Mom with an electric coffee pot because our power was out. Took her a sec to remember that you had to plug those in also. It was the thought that counts I guess.
The day after the Columbus Day storm our house had 7 Doug fir trees down between the front & backyard some were ours the others were the neighbors, but all missed the house. The house behind us got a tree on the roof, with a limb piercing the roof and the bed in the bedroom.
wploulorenziprince She became a Rhodes Scholar and a nuclear physicist.
FYI the red vehicle is a Willys Jeep Utility Wagon, built from 1946-1964. The first all-steel passenger wagon, and the grandaddy of every modern SUV.
For Your Information Jay.
The Chevrolet Suburban was the original sport utility vehicle. Launched in 1935, the nameplate is still in use today. The original 1935 Suburban could seat eight, while removable seats provided a large 115.1 cubic foot (3,259 L) cargo area when the second-row seats were folded and third-row seats removed. It was powered by an inline-six-cylinder engine that produced 60 horsepower.
The 2020 Suburban seats up to nine and offers up to 121.7 cubic feet (3,446 L) of maximum cargo space when second and third-row seats are folded down. The available 6.2L V-8 produces 420 horsepower – seven times the power of the 1935 model – with an EPA-estimated 23 mpg highway.
That Willys looks like 57 or 58. I had an old 57, but that one looks much cleaner and spec. Does anyone know what the other car is? I was thinking a Ghia coupe.
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Based on an earlier post on this site these girls are planting trees as part of the Albina Improvement program.
The photo was taken on Thursday, November 1, 1962 – two days after the Cuban Missile Crisis ended (10-16-62 to 10-28-62).
That looks like a nice Jeep (?) parked at the curb with its door open.
These girls were my contemporaries; I wonder what the current story is on each of them. The tall “nerdy” girl with glasses, looks like many other nerdy girls I encountered in my years of public elementary school.
I never had a Camp Fire Girl as a girlfriend, or anything. But, when I was a Boy Scout, we used to make up raunchy jingles about them, sitting ’round our campfires.
It’s interesting how shyness is so clearly seen in the stances of some of these girls.
“We got our start as Camp Fire Girls in 1910, founded by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife, Charlotte Vetter Gulick. They believed girls deserved the outdoor learning experiences that boys had and wanted to help “guide young people on their journey to self-discovery.”
Campfire Girls has been rebranded as just Camp Fire and it now is open to all young people.
A few months ago I found my old Campfire girl vest and beads and scrapbook. Didn’t want to just throw them out, and after much vetting the OHS accepted them into their permanent collection! Needless to say, the 1950s scrapbook was hysterical.
This photo was taken just over two weeks after the Columbus Day storm on October 12, 1962, which saw the damage and destruction hundreds of trees in the metro area.
Oregonian November 2, 1962 —- Girls Group Plants Tree
A flowering cherry tree will be planted in the Albina Neighborhood Improvement area at 10 am Saturday by two Camp Fire Girl groups, as part of the Urban Renewal tree planting project sponsored by Portland General Electric Co. in conjunction with the federal government.
Sixth grade Camp Fire Girls from Capitol Hill School have invited fourth grade Camp Fire Girls from Humbolt School to participate in the planting ceremony.
The ritual, planned by the girls, will include songs, a short dedication speech and recitation of a poem.
Mrs. Burton Goodrich is Capitol Hill guardian. Guardian of Humbolt School group is Mrs. John Ivory.
Would be nice to see a photo of that tree today.
It appears that there is a small child preparing to drive off in the red jeep.
Right after the storm our neighbor from across the street walked over and presented my Mom with an electric coffee pot because our power was out. Took her a sec to remember that you had to plug those in also. It was the thought that counts I guess.
The day after the Columbus Day storm our house had 7 Doug fir trees down between the front & backyard some were ours the others were the neighbors, but all missed the house. The house behind us got a tree on the roof, with a limb piercing the roof and the bed in the bedroom.
wploulorenziprince She became a Rhodes Scholar and a nuclear physicist.
FYI the red vehicle is a Willys Jeep Utility Wagon, built from 1946-1964. The first all-steel passenger wagon, and the grandaddy of every modern SUV.
For Your Information Jay.
The Chevrolet Suburban was the original sport utility vehicle. Launched in 1935, the nameplate is still in use today. The original 1935 Suburban could seat eight, while removable seats provided a large 115.1 cubic foot (3,259 L) cargo area when the second-row seats were folded and third-row seats removed. It was powered by an inline-six-cylinder engine that produced 60 horsepower.
The 2020 Suburban seats up to nine and offers up to 121.7 cubic feet (3,446 L) of maximum cargo space when second and third-row seats are folded down. The available 6.2L V-8 produces 420 horsepower – seven times the power of the 1935 model – with an EPA-estimated 23 mpg highway.
That Willys looks like 57 or 58. I had an old 57, but that one looks much cleaner and spec. Does anyone know what the other car is? I was thinking a Ghia coupe.