Soap Creek Valley · Person

Norman Hindes

Norman Hindes— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.

narratormentioned

Provenance

Dates: 1919 – unknown
Work: logger, spar-tree rigger and high climber, log truck owner
Home site: Soap Creek (McCoy/Burtrom - Valley Mills) logging and sawmilling camp, Benton County, Oregon, 1928-1931; resident of Tillamook, Oregon in 1990
Interview focus: Logging
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); SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 3, p. 1, p. 27, p. 29, p. 30, p. 60, p. 62, 1-4, p. 10, p. 22, p. 50, p. 56, 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

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

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September 28, 1993 — 530 NW 15th, Corvallis, Oregon Interviewer: Bob Zybach · photo-elicitation
September 28, 1993 — Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon Interviewer: Bob Zybach · tour
October 11, 1993 unknown

1900 — [NORMAN] Well, granddad, grandmother came out here (to Oregon) in early 1900. . . source · 1891–1920
1927 — They started building it in '27 I think. source · 1921–1940
1928 — [NORMAN] He died in 1928, 29, 28. source · 1921–1940
1930 — They bought that hotel and that was about the time that it was all going to pot there, you know it was back in early 1930. source · 1921–1940
1930 — Top (L & R): Norman Hindes on an early Allis-Chalmers Caterpillar in the late 1930's near Elsie, Oregon. source · 1921–1940
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. source · 1921–1940
1993-09-28 — The following interview was conducted by Bob Zybach with Charles and Norman Hindes at 530 NW 15th, Corvallis, Oregon on September 28, 1993. source · 1971–1995
1993-09-28 — Map of September 28, 1993 Tour of Soap Creek Valley with Charles and Norman Hindes. source · 1971–1995

Hindes, Norman 14:1, 14:1, 14:2, 14:3, 14:3, 14:4, 14:10, 14:27, 14:29, 14:30, 14:50, 14:56, 14:60, 14:62

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