Soap Creek Valley · Person
Charles Hindes
Charles Hindes— narrator, co-author, photographer, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
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Provenance
- Dates
- 1921 – unknown
- Work
- logger, timber cutter and log truck operator
- Interview focus
- Sawmilling
- Where this comes from
- #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, title page, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); the 1999 thesis, p. 39, born (from Table 4 lifetime); #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 51, contributors / front matter credit; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 8, photograph credit; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 64, photograph credit; SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 8, p. 27, 51-53, p. 56, p. 57, p. 63, p. 64, p. 50, p. 67, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 19, p. 20, p. 22, p. 26, p. 39, p. 42, p. 46, p. 47, p. 49, p. 61, p. 62, p. 76, p. 109, p. 124, p. 127, p. 129, p. 130, p. 143, p. 144, p. 145, p. 148, p. 198, p. 231, p. 237, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Hindes 1996), referenced as (Zybach 1996a), #14; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
Plotted at Soap Creek Logging Camp, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Sessions
- September 28, 1993 — 530 NW 15th, Corvallis, Oregon
- September 28, 1993 — Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon
- October 11, 1993
Worked on
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1905 — I think they came out just shortly after the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland around 1905 to 1907.
- 1913 — Now I don't know whether their joint business venture had any bearing on mother and father getting together but it was dated in 1913 and it was about 1915 before my mother and father were married.
- 1913 — You see this stock certificate I talked about was dated 1913.
- 1919 — My mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919! when I was four months old and, of course, my father remarried and most of the family on my mother's side gravitated back to the east coast again, settling primarily in Florida.
- 1924 — "When conditions warranted, both schools would operate simultaneously, as occurred between 1924 and 1941." - If memory serves me correctly we walked from the logging camp we visited with you to the "Tampico" school (jct: Tampico Rd and Soap Creek Rd.) for the 1927 school year.
- 1927 — During my time at the camp (1927-30 and for a short stay in 1935) the only rails worked have been wooden.
- 1928 — [CHUCK] It took most of a half a day, but that's still pretty good money for 1928- 29.
- 1928 — We were here in about '28 and after looking at that photo, I can see that there were several houses missing so probably by '36 they'd started tearing down the houses.
- 1928 — In the 1928 school year Alvie Govier converted a Model T truck into a school bus and transported the farm and mill kids to "Tampico with Mrs. Montgomery as teacher.
- 1928 — [CHUCK] Grandfather Hindes died in 1928.
- 1929 — And when the depression hit in 1929 I think there were five or six of them with all new roadsters and coups and so forth and the whole works lost their vehicles because there just wasn't any work and [they] could not make payments.
- 1929 — For the 1929 and post of 1930 years Mrs. Ed Blake was brought to the old "Modrell" home converted to a school house - house located west side of "Soap Creek Rd" approximately half way between the Griffin and Elmer Govier farms.
- 1929 — [CHUCK] I don't know where he was working but I don't know of any mill operations that were operating between '29 and '30.
- 1930 — [CHUCK] Well, we left here in 1930.
- 1930 — The mill closed in the crash of 29 and did not resume operation by the time we departed in the spring of 1930.
- 1931 — Well, you see we left the mill site in 1931.
- 1934 — Norman Hindes is on the rear left and Charles Hindes is third from left on this 1934 photograph of the South Prairie Grade School Basketball Team in Tillamook, Oregon.
- 1934 — [CHUCK] I first learned to run cat in the CC's [Edward Sekermestrovich: Monograph #4] and that was late 1934.
- 1935 — That was 34 and '35.
- 1935 — I came back from a short stay in 1935 to take a cutting contract - lost my shirt, spent the next two years working for wages to pay my bills.
- 1953 — Charles Hindes poses with a big log salvaged from the Tillamook Burn along the Miami River, Tillamook county, Oregon, in 1953.
- 1993-10-11 — [Transcription of Charles Hindes' October 11, 1993 note to Bob Zybach.]
- 1996 — And about those three boys in the Hindes family, stepbrother, Douglas Gilliam, Norman and Charles Hindes, two are in their early 80's now and the third one will be 78 this year, 1996.
- 1996-03 — In retirement all three continue to reside in their birth state, Oregon, not far from Soap Creek. -- Charles Hindes, March, 1996.
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- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Charles Hindes (person record).
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