Toppenish

Toppenish.

"In about 1910, a strapping, hard-drinking shepherd called Irish Dick traded a pet bear cub to a Toppenish saloon-keeper for whiskey. Some months later, the rowdy shepherd was in town when his grown-up pet escaped, panicking townsfolk. He offered to return the bear to its tether. A terrible fight on Main Street ended when an unharmed bear was returned to saloon servitude and a brave and bloodied Irishman was taken to the hospital."

Now someone's telling me in the office that nearby Granger Washington has DINOSAURS?!

Toppenish used to have This 12 cylinder American La France fire engine with dual magneto ignition like an airplane motor, each cylinder had one spark plug from each magneto. TFD kept it in perfect, original condition. it may have been built in the 1920s or 30s maybe it's still there.

Is he worried about his whiskey, or does he figure his best chance lies in either getting the bear drunk and happy, or in wielding a broken bottle?

Also, whiskey or whisky? ie Irish or Scottish?

just up the road where my grandpa used to ride his bike to his first job on a cherry farm, on your way to jones farm, there is a refurbished gas station that looks like a tea pot.

The teapot gas station has been moved into Zillah. They had to cover the glass domeof the gas pumps with sheet metal so they wouldn't get shot out at the original location.

Love this, Kelly O! Thanks for posting it!

he's totes obvs trying to glass the bitey bear

For a real trip out that way, go check out the telescope straight out of Felix the Cat (Master Cylinder's lair), down in Goldendale. It's open nearly every night and it's run by people who are really into it. Come to think of it, maybe you should get drunk AFTER you look through the delicate instruments.

@4, as my cousin who loves in Granger says, "People come from half-miles around to see our dinosaurs."

Do more mural contests.

Does Toppenish mean a town kinda like Toppen? And is it a long or short "o?"