Quote Originally Posted by antiquity View Post
Well, well... small world. I lived in Cd'A from 1941 until 1966 when I move to Seattle. Went all the way through High School and worked at DeArmond mill from when I graduated from CHS in 1959 until I was drafted into the Army and after the Army went back to work at the mill for one year. I also worked at the Rutledge mill (now the location of the Coeur d'Alene golf club) for one winter. I started working making $1.75 an hour. When I left Cd'A for good, the population was around 15k and I think today its about 45k and about 140K in Kootenai County. Our house was on corner of 11th and Mullen.

My dad used to haul logs to the Ohio Match mill a long with a lot of others mill in the area for many years.

I go back occasionally to visit relatives....but I don't miss it one bit.
You probably knew my sister. She was Class of '59, too. We lived at Gov't Way and Foster. She went to NIJC for a year or two before marrying and moving down to So Calif. My father went to work for a construction company, moved to their operations in Maui for several years, then transferred to their HQ in Tempe. He, and soon after my sister and niece, settled in that area for good.

My wife and I took a road trip through the NW in '92 and we swung by Cd'A so I could show her where I lived (and the former four-room red brick Roosevelt Elementary School nearby that had been turned into a law office). I saw that the side door on the house was open and screened so I knocked on the door to introduce myself as the source of all the bb dimples in the posts and columns in the basement, but nobody came to the door.

The visit made me sad and really put me in a funk. The town seemed to have become a haven for well-off retired LA cops and the like, served at minimum wage by local young people trying to struggle through, no doubt dreaming of getting out of that hole one day. It's a beautiful place, but I don't think I'll ever have a reason to revisit it.