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WHEN COAL WAS KING: Bill Petchnick was a mechanic at local coal mines

For much of his life, Bill Petchnick was a mechanic at local coal mines.  In this 1977 photo, Petchnick is at the controls of...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Jack Kombol is Operating a Koehring 405 Dragline Crane

In December 1975, when Palmer Coking Coal closed Washington State’s last underground coal mine, the company still had contracts to supply coal to several...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: A Metal Rail Car Carrying Five Tons of Coal

In 1974, when the Rogers No. 3 mine in Ravensdale had but one year remaining in its 17-year life, little had changed in over...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Tony Basselli and Bud Simmons

 Last week’s column featured Jim Thompson, then 24 years old at the bottom of the Rogers No. 3 mine just months after he accepted...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Meet Jim Thompson (The Miner)

Before becoming a cabinet-maker in his hometown of Maple Valley, Jim Thompson was for a brief period of time a coal miner. It happened...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Muriel’s Beauty Shoppe

Winston Churchill once observed, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”  When brothers, Gomer and Tom Evans constructed this beauty parlor for their...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Crystal Mountain Resort

This is what Crystal Mountain looked like in the early 1960s.  The photo was taken by Bob and Ira Spring and featured on a...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Lynn Mason, 1958

When walking into the Black Diamond History Museum, you might be greeted by the smiling face of Lynn Mason, a docent who is 89...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Wreckage of Avalanche at Wellington, March 1, 1910

Last week’s column documented the huge accumulations of snow that piled up around the town of Wellington where two train loads of passengers, crew,...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Wellington Train Disaster

Wellington was a small railroad town situated near the summit of the Cascade Mountain range about four miles west of Stevens Pass.  In late...
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