Days Gone By: July 23, 2015 - East Oregonian (subscription)

100 Years Ago. July 23, 1915. As predicted a year ago, the Panama-Pacific exposition is adding materially to the number of transient visitors in Pendleton this summer. It doesn’t need the figures of local garages to prove that there are many more auto parties passing through the city this year than last. Some estimates have it that an average of 15 cars a day pass through Pendleton en route to San Francisco, whereas last year there were only about six strange cars a day through the city. Pendleton hotelmen have had their business increased by this travel but they expect the month of August to bring a bigger increase yet. The trains passing through the city are showing a greater travel, too, as the summer grows older. July 23, 1965. What do you do when you rent the same bed to six different people. This is the kind of problem you can sometimes find yourself facing when your job is to find accommodations for hundreds of people who are coming for the September Round-Up and don’t have a place to stay. This is exactly what the Round-Up office is doing, looking for sleeping accommodations for people who have no place to stay. This system, stopgap as it is, has worked well in the past and provided some lasting friendships as well as a little pin money for some of the women of the community. 25 Years Ago. Source: www.eastoregonian.com