Charlie Olson

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Plotted at Soap Creek Valley, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.

Sessions

• January 29, 1990 — Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area, Benton County, Oregon Interviewers: Bob Zybach, Angela Sondenaa · tour
• June 16, 1990 — Olson residence near Summit, Lincoln County, Oregon Interviewers: Bob Zybach, Angela Sondenaa · mixed

Where others mention them

• #1 Lorna Grabe Narrator: Lorna Grabe p. 42, p. 44
• #3 Donald Dickey Narrator: Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 50
• #7 Charlie Olson Narrator: Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 1, p. 98, p. 101, p. 127, p. 179, p. 74, p. 160
• #9 Eugene Glender Narrator: Eugene Glender p. 26
• #11 Bessie Murphy Narrator: Bessie Murphy p. 56, p. 79, p. 87
• #12 Wanda Marcks Cook Narrator: Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 8, p. 19, p. 50, p. 52, p. 73, p. 18
• #14 Charles and Norman Hindes Narrator: Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 3, p. 26, p. 36, p. 47, p. 49

Family named in the transcripts

• spouse

Dates they give

• 1890 — Sometime around 1890, a regular practice of clearcut logging began in this section (Olson 1994), but the area and volume of large trees remained greatest for Soap Creek Valley (see Tables 14, 15, 20 and 21; Appendices F and G) until the entire stand was finally clearcut during and shortly after WW II (Sauerwein 1948; Jackson 1980; Rowley 1997). source · 1860–1890
• 1898 — He was building that right in 1898, yes, he was building it then. source · 1891–1920
• 1900 — Well, would be 2 years old in 1900. '18, it'd have to be 17 at least. source · 1891–1920
• 1900 — Talking about sheep, on that picture that you have [Soap Creek Schoolhouse student picture, e. 1900), is a guy by the name of Dell Baker. source · 1891–1920
• 1900 — I've got Charlie Olson's [Charlie Olson: Monograph #7, pp:138-139] "Dorgans." The Dorgans lived there where you say the Vandersantens were living, and then Bakers lived between the Vandersantens and the Vincents, but that was in 1900. source · 1891–1920
• 1901 — It probably would have been 1901 or 1902 when he planted the trees. source · 1891–1920
• 1902 — Olson, in fact, is shown in a c.1902 Soap Creek School photograph in which he could still identify most of the other 20 students and adults (including his “7-foot tall” school teacher, Mrs. de Moulin) nearly 90 years later, in 1990 (Olson 1994). source · 1891–1920
• 1903 — That's right where Charlie Olson showed me that he stayed with Mrs. Blake" in about 1903. source · 1891–1920
• 1905 — That's where Charlie Olson claims he heard the last one was killed about 1905, something like that. source · 1891–1920
• 1905 — Both Olson (1994) and Murphy (1995) claimed the “coming of the automobile” was the biggest change they had witnessed in their lives, while Rohner (1993), Glender (1994), and Cook (1995) emphasized the dramatic changes the use of internal combustion engines brought to farming. source · 1891–1920
• 1906 — When I was six years old, you know, why we'd have to take two years off on that other date because I wouldn't be six years old in 1906. source · 1891–1920
• 1910 — Well, they were probably out of here by 1910, but I found horns source · 1891–1920
• 1910 — When I was aware of it, I didn't know what it was and my uncle came over here about 1910. source · 1891–1920
• 1912 — As the book has stated, I had my first work try out when we came home from the hopyard in 1912. source · 1891–1920
• 1913 — Well, 1913 was when that was source · 1891–1920
• 1913 — It was just about 1913, that they had a foot race on that. . . and I entered it. source · 1891–1920
• 1914 — It was 160, and in 1914, the [Benton] County cruised that to 15 million board feet. source · 1891–1920
• 1916-10-19 — And on October 19, 1916, was when they left their guns right where they were and went home. source · 1891–1920
• 1917 — But the armistice, I don't know for sure, it was signed in 1917, or it happened in 1917. source · 1891–1920
• 1917 — But in 1917, I know it was 1917 when we got out. source · 1891–1920
• 1917 — I got a used 1917 Model T Ford in 1917 and I sold it in 1920 and ordered a new one in 1920. source · 1891–1920
• 1917-1918 — World War I created an immediate demand for agricultural goods and lumber products, and The Valley’s landowners were able to quickly capitalize on the new markets (Olson 1994; Cook 1995). source · 1891–1920
• 1918 — I think it just drug along until 1918. source · 1891–1920
• 1918 — I think their date is 1918, when the armistice was signed. source · 1891–1920
• 1918 — bastard fir until some where around 19 . . . oh, maybe 1918 or sometime along in there. source · 1891–1920
• 1920-03 — That was about March 1920. source · 1891–1920
• 1921 — That was about 1921. source · 1921–1940
• 1929 — In 1929 a young fellow started a school bus from Summit to Philomath for high school kids but he drove it into the garage where he got it and disappeared when there was 3 months left of school. source · 1921–1940
• 1935 — About 1935, '36, somewhere along in there. source · 1921–1940
• 1937 — In 1937, my father started for the barn from the house in the morning and it took him till noon to get over there. source · 1921–1940
• 1940 — It would have been pretty close to 1940. source · 1921–1940
• 1940 — I was out of here in 1940. source · 1921–1940
• 1942 — The bus that I went to pick up was a 1942 bus. source · 1941–1950
• 1942 — That was a 1942 bus. source · 1941–1950
• 1948 — [Referring to 1948 aerial photographs.] source · 1941–1950
• 1955 — And in the meantime, from 1915 until somewhere around 1955 or something, I'm only guessing, there had been a lot of this second growth. source · 1951–1970
• 1962 — But, you can probably go for four years then it will turn to cancer." This was in 1962. source · 1951–1970
• 1966 — Carbon monoxide in our big cities and putting millions more internal combustion cars every year when in 1966 a steam car would outperform them. source · 1951–1970
• 1966 — The oil co. still try to tell us about the water troughs every five miles on the roads but in 1966 a steam car could go 1500 miles without stopping for water or oil. source · 1951–1970
• 1975 — About fifteen years ago [1975]. source · 1971–1995

2 more in the timeline.

In the Series Index

• Olson, Charlie 01:42, 01:44, 03:50, 07:1, 07:74, 07:98, 07:101, 07:127, 07:160, 07:179, 09:26, 11:56, 11:79, 11:87, 12:8, 12:18, 12:19, 12:50, 12:52, 12:73, 14:3, 14:26, 14:36, 14:47, 14:49