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 Aberdeen, CA |
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 Raymond Steffen in the 1922 Ford, Lucille Steffen sitting on the fender. Aberdeen Store in 1925. Note the new glass bowl gas pump and electric light over the door. Sign left of door reads "Delaware Punch." |
 Aberdeen School class of 1918 when Irene Steffen graduated. Top row (L to R): Anderson, Claude Howard, Francis Giraud, Irene Steffen, Elsie Howard, John Jones, Paul Zucco. Bottom row (L to R): Rollin Williams, Stanley Steffen, Raymond Steffen, Hill, Tibbits, Muldoon. Children from the east side of the river were Goldie Cowsart, who later married Dallas Jones, John Jones, Stanley and Raymond Steffen, Allie Swingrover, Olive Jones, George (last name unknown), Allen and Ray Ball. Photographs by Mrs. Peter (Annie) Steffen, author's mother. |
Other Days at Aberdeen [pdf]
by Raymond Steffen
 Aberdeen School 1918 [Photograph by Mrs. Peter Steffen] |
 Aberdeen Store in 1923, Irene and Waunita Steffen at left. At 17, Irene was the youngest postmistress in the U.S. First to pump gas - to pump gas you turned stops for 1 quarter, 1 gallon, or 5 gallons, then turned handle to stops. Sign over the door.- Aberdeen California Post Office; right of door.- (soft drinks called) Whistle; right of window.- Stage Depot. The stage was an 8-passenger Packard cloth-top. |
 Aberdeen Store, 30' x 20', built in 1921. It withstood the wind in 1922 on just a rock foundation. Dad served Red Crown gas in quart and gallon measured cans. It was delivered in 50 gallon drums; kerosene, called Pearl Oil Very Clean Kerosene came in 50 gallon drums, motor oil in 18 gallon drums, and disolatate (later diesel fuel) in 50 gallon drums, all purchased from Standard Oil Company of California. Sign on top of store: General Merchandise; left of door: - Gates Tires. |
 Aberdeen School in 1923, with the addition after the wind damage - Note the fence built because of heavier traffic after the concrete road was laid. The addition in the rear was built after the wind damage of 1922. To the right was teachers (Mrs. Nail) house. After Mrs. Nichols (who married a Mr. Bower), Mrs. White and Mrs. Henderson were teachers there. In warm weather, we went to Gooddale Creek for a bucket of water and everyone drank from one dipper. Mrs. Nail's husband Ernie was foreman on the Orbin Ranch just north of the store; the owner was from Southern, California. The ranch had 40 acres of alfalfa and 20 acres of orchard. [Photograph by Mrs. Peter Steffen] |
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25 August 2007