Curt,
Well said! I know for my own part you have given me something to think about in reguards to my own little community and it's history. I live in a planed city. In 1923 a Lumber Baron came to this bend in the Columbia River and built a town (Longview, WA) and at the time the world's largest saw mill. Long-Bell is now gone, but the timbers from her drying sheds now make up the beams in the Tacoma Dome ( world's largest wooden dome structure) and are in the lakeside home of Bill Gates. I will do some checking of my local "gas" history. Thanks for the insight to Buellton and the great trips down memmory lane.
