Some sights of the "good ole" days.

(All B&W photos are from Lee Flower's collection)

Parades, then as now, brought people

out into the streets; looking north on 8th St.

The hardware store was in
a buidling located where the Corner Market parking lot is now.

Looking south from in front of the Opera House

Hug Bros. Dry Goods
at the corner of 8th & Division, (the location of the Masonic Lodge).

Getting down to work.

The school burned in the 1950's.

Air travel came to Elgin in 1912 (Hart Photo).
Mr. L. E. Smalley thrilled the crowd as he was lifted into the
air by a hot-air balloon. He rode in a harness attached to a parachute.
He returned to the ground by dropping from the balloon and parachuting
to the ground.
(Looking east from a location (now) just south of the
PGG elevator, Opera House is on the far left.)

Elgin survived because the
railroad came to town in the late 1800's, going from La Grande to Joseph.

Agriculture and timber were then and still are

the primary sources of exported goods.