Rex Trulove
This is the residential area where we lived, though this was from this past year and not from when we lived there. The blue arrow points to where we lived, in half of a duplex. The red arrow points to the school and recreation building.
There are some changes from when I lived there, though. For one thing, there used to be a lot more trees everywhere. For another, the school is no longer a school. The kids that live there now are bussed the 42 miles to Chiloquin to attend school. That means catching the bus at about 7:00 each morning. In the winter, the trip to Chiloquin can also be very treacherous, with all the snow and ice, and sometimes the trip takes more than two hours.
Incidentally, all of the green rooves of the duplexes weren’t there back then. The buildings were flat-topped, on purpose. The weight of the snow is tremendous and the buildings are made of I-beam reinforced concrete and brick. They would plow the snow off using bulldozers. As heavy as bulldozers are, they weighed less than the snow. The rooves you see in the picture are made from high-grade steel, to withstand the weight. Back in the 1960s, when these buildings were built, it would have been far too expensive to have thick steel pitched rooves.
My dad and his crew built all of the paved roads that can be seen in this picture. The Admin building I’ve already shared is north of this image, about an eighth of a mile.
