Ref The HERALD, Everett WA Date: Mon. Dec 24, 2001 Local Page(s)Local p B1, B2 http://heraldnet.com/search/ Article:Alderwood preservative Lynnwood woman makes it her duty to save south county history By Janice Podsada, Herald Writer PIX captioned Lynnwood historian Marie Little was just reappointed by the city countil to her post as the head of the Lynnwood Historical Commission. She's holding the handmade gavel she uses at the meetings she leads. COMMENT: I "talked" to Alderwood Manor, WA when I was 16 yrs of age and made contact with two ham radio operators, Samuel Snow ATWOOD, an elderly "old timer" ham and a patriotic war (WWI) veteran Elmer WALKER. They were some of my earliest radio contacts using a telegraph key and we "read" each other's telegraphy - what a thrill it was among those first contacts. Little was I to know that someday I would live at Alderwood Manor, WA in more than one place, in fact. Even when I moved to Lake Serene area, I was asked whether I preferred a Lynnwood, WA post office address, or an Alderwood Manor, WA P.O. Address. I preferred the latter for I loved the name so well - perhaps from those early radio contacts. By that time, Samuel Snow ATWOOD, and Elmer R. WALKER were no longer living so I was never to meet them personally. The Alderwood Manor Post Office was later located in what is Today, the Video Only building on 196th. (3703). There was a lot of Nostalgia in Alderwood Manor back there in the late '50s & early '60. The old waincotted building that was the Interurban Depot when I used to ride the Interurban to and from Seattle in the late 1920s & '30s was still there but became a paint or hardware store as I recall was still there. Now, it sits falorn and on pilings, dilapidated in fact beside the overpass bridge from Alderwood Mall over 196th to Old Navy, et al. Marie LITTLE is member of the Alderwood Manor Heritage Association, and at age 69 collects pieces of the past. Alderwood Manor early on was close to the logging industry of the 1800s, and by the 1920s it was the 2nd-largest egg producing site, and chicken farms abounded after that time. Lynnwood, WA which eventually absorbed Alderwood Manor was not incorporated until 1959 about the time I had moved into what was known as Alderwood Manor. Some years back PSRoots had a streak of Nostalgia and eventually Alderwood Manor became a subject of conversation. John Sloniker and others each put in their remembrances of the place. Here it is again - there are people who remember Alderwood Manor, and the old 1908 Alderwood School almost across the 196th. from what is now Video Only, or the Old Alderwood Post Office of earlier times. I had the pleasure of teaching 4th Grade at this old Alderwood School and I was there when it was decomissioned as a school and attended the ceremony that honored it. I still visit with the Carl Carlstads, whose son Richard CARLDSTAD was my 4th grade student. I was invited to his wedding when he married at the age of 40. His mother, Ruby Carlstad was a bus driver, and later was in charge of the school bus barn for the Edmonds School District 15 from which she retired many years ago. Richard Carlstad would eventually work in heavy construction, such as building post office buildings, and the like. The Carl Carlstads still live in their home in the former Alderwood Manor area. Mrs. Alma Buxton was longtime teacher for the District and she was at the old Alderwood School (1908 Vintage) in the 1960s. I had her son,David Buxton, as a student in my Electronic Class at Edmonds High. He was a volunteer firefighter, and later went up the ladder with Nordstrom's Shoe Dept. and became a district mgr. for the firm, out of CA. I understand he is back living in the area. Alderwood Manor may be gone, but it is certainly NOT forgotten, and there are those who will retain its Legacy beyond the Alderwood Mall remnant. The Old Alderwood Manor Interurban Station building still sits forlorn and abandoned on the 196th overpass between Alderwood Mall and Old Navy, Best Buy, etc. The stories that building could tell ! Of passengers, chickens, eggs shipped by the Interurban train of yor to other destinations. Carroll in Snohomish &