Looking Back: Taming a town while still having a good time in Edmonds
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: June 15, 2021 72 An advertisement announcing the opening of the Ritz Rink in Edmonds. (All images from the Edmonds Tribune-Review) When the little village of Edmonds incorporated as a fourth-class town in August of 1890, even though there had been some hard times, the residents must have been filled with hope that the final decade of the 19th century would bring prosperity, growth and some needed culture to their community. Certainly, at 5 o’clock in the evening on June 17, 1891, when the Great Northern track-laying engine rounded Point Edwards and came into ...
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