My apologies to the list for sending this in this fashion, but Norma's ISP (webtv.com) continues to refuse to receive mail from European ISPs (3 years now!) Jim Boyce Nine Mile Falls back 1930 > Dear Norma, > > Thank you for your e-mail and your very generous offer. All I know is that > the Census Record for 1930 shows that my father, grandfather and granduncle > lived on what was then Nine Mile Road , they had a neighbour named Geaorge > Doan, and that the Census taker recorded 3 more houses on Nine Mile Road, > then one on Seven Mile Road, and then began counting on Pine Bluff Road. > > I actually grew up in Spokane and used to ride my bicycle on a circuit out > Driscoll Blvd, and Nine Mile Road, across the dam, then back up Riverside > Parkway. Of course, that was long before any such thing as "Sun Crest"! I > remember that the government houses were in a little cluster on the west > side of the river, but I think that the place they lived must have been > further out and existed even before those were built. I think it would be > hard to find it today. What is very odd is that we used to go fishing up > near TumTum almost every week during every summer. To get there, we would > always pass through Nine Mile, but my father never mentioned living there or > showed any interest in showing us where he had lived. > > I do know that my father, Donald Boyce, was still living in Nine Mile Falls > in 1937 and that he was working for the WPA at that time. He may have > helped build that road! (Although he never mentioned it). I have also been > told that there are still a few old wooden houses out around Nine Mile that > were built by the Boyces, my grandfather James and his brother Benjamin. I > hope to find one of those some day so I can have a photo of it. I have heard > that a woman who works at the Post Office at Nine Mile lives in one of those > homes, but I don't know her name. > > I appreciate you contacting me and I especially appreciate your offer to > take some photos. I just don't know really where they were, however, except > what I got from the Census, so I can't really ask you to drive out there and > take photos. > > I hope that you are having a good summer in Spokane. We have had everything > from good old Spokane summer heat (temperatures in the 90s) to cold, rainy > days to real downpouring thunderstorms like yesterday! But the gardens are > doing great and we are enjoying the heat when we have it. Here in France > and Switzerland, we don't get a lot of heat! > > Best regards, > Jim Boyce