Clayton Album 2

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More Clayton photos of the early days

The Clayton Home Ec. Club about 1939. Left or right standing. Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Hazel Rennner,??, Mrs. Dorthy Steele, Mrs. Emma Stewart ( Grand Mother of Chuck Stewart, Son of Burton Stewart) ? Lola Lambier, Lila Lambier, Linda Kelso,??, Margaret Tobeck, Lulu Twidwell, Mary Nordby, ??, Alma Berger, ??, ??, Alice Christianson. Sitting. Mrs. Schonfeld, and to her left Richard Renner, Johanna Robertson, Pearl Christianson holding a Grandaughter, Mary Bradley, Mrs Lena Berger,??,??. Kneeling, Donna Lambier, Luella Lambier, Mrs. Christianson's Grandson. Elma Gibson holding Margaret, Edith Welch with her son, Thanks go to Bob & Lily Mae Gibson, Alma Berger, Warren Nord and Norma Lindh Burnett for helping identify these ladies.

Charles Huffman, long time local mail carrier. Leno Prestini painted a picture of this photo. (Team, Mink and Bob) Our Thanks to Mae Huffman Fischbach for this photo and information.

If this was the Winter of 1948 - 49 it was the roughest over all winter in any one's memory and it have been the very first that the Glassbrenners spent in Clayton. How lucky can you get?

This is a rare picture that includes the Washington Brick and Lime water tower. To the left are the homes of the Huffmans and the Steltings.

Thanks to Jack Lewis and the Clayton Grange, We are now able to show the old Clayton Grange when it was located on the Farm to Market road west of town. Year unknown

Fred Schonfeld is front right in this interesting 1902 photo. The man in the back row left is labeled as Moonshine. The man middle front is Sunshine. Tabor is front row left. Back row left it looks like, Ealyots. If you have a better idea let us know.

Martin Harris on his what looks like a 1949 John Deere tractor. Others say it was home made and painted John Deere green. Mr. Harris owned the farm on what is now Williams Valley Road across from Lyle Nord. Les Bond now owns it.

This was one of several of the old Boarding houses so popular to those that hadn't established a home as yet. This one still stands after close to 100 years.

Leno Prestini and Burton Stewart climbing a smoke stack at the Brick Yard.

This is Owen Parker, father of Wally Parker and his three sisters.

Inside the plant complex and now gas powered forklifts

Of these three ladies in front of the Clayton Mercantile, we have only positively identified Mary Lou Berg on the left. We are waiting for help with the other two. Probably taken in the very early 40s. Notice the three different styles. A mini skirt, a bloomer girl and high heels, all dressed to the nines! Baffling!

This does not appear to be Clayton judging from the houses but instead perhaps Deer Park during the winter of 48 - 49. Its also believed to be a Clarence Glassbrenner photo

Even though this Clarence Glassbrenner photo was among the Clayton photos it is unlikely this lady is from our vacinity. The terrain is unfamiliar as is the lady herself. But it is a change of pace.

A good photo of the early years and tile production was a major part of the Clayton Brickyard.

My alltime favorite Collie, Ring by the collapsed barn at the rocking RAC ranch. During the winter of 48 - 49 it started out bad and got worse. There was extreme cold early on and froze our water line from the pump house up to the place 1/4 mile away so we had to drive the Milk cows to the pump house for water. Strangly enough this may have been a blessing because it snowed that winter and buried the fence posts. One very cold morning Larry and I took the cattle for water. We could see the barn just barely when we heard this deep rumble. The deep heavy snow slid off one side of the barn roof but not the other. The weight of the snow on one side only, forced the hay mow to colapse. Had the cows been in the barn rather then being watered we would have lost everyone of them. We spent the rest of the winter digging loose hay out of the downed timbers to feed the livestock. Here are just a very few attributes necessary to be a farmer. You must have Faith, determination, patients, unbounded energy, good health, stuborn, sticktuitivness, unfaltering determination and love and if you have all these qualities I cordially invite you to be a farmer.

Tino Costa far right, taking in a lesson on how the big boys operate.

1957 was the end of the glory years for Clayton, Washington. After the Mercantile burned to the ground a small grocery store owned by Emil and Margaret Tobeck emerged.

Lilly (Betty) and Clarence Glassbrenner, photographer extraordinaire!

A large company can build a town and it can also bring it to its knees and Clarence Glassbrenner was there to record the final blow.

This is Larry Clouse on about his 18th Birthday which would make it about 1956. Photo taken by Clarence Glassbrenner

Later on Clayton received another blow, Highway 395 was diverted from Railroad Avenue to the outskirts of Clayton.

A terrific photo of the old wooden water tower built by the Washington brick and lime that supplied the plant and the entire town.

Kap Westbys Barn. Practically in downtown Clayton.

From a bustling Brick yard to one huge Clay pit. Not a pretty sight to the Clayton Natives.

The way we were

The old Post Office snuggled in between Marvin Calicoat's garage and Matt's Tavern.

And who we were

This is why Clayton will never die. In the background you will see mother nature at her finest. The barren Clay has been transformed into a beautiful green oasis. Many of the old-timers had been replaced by a younger very energetic generation. I have a hunch this is a three generation picture because the lady on the left looks on with a lot more pride than just a passerby. Grandma, Mom and the little one.

Clarence Glassbrenner and his niece.