Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <209@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:44:55 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.209 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:44:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:11:46 EDT References: <26900007@hpfclm.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 25 Careful there folks, let's not malign one of my favorite spots in all of W. Washington. Humptulips, the garden crossroads of Grays Harbor County, where the forestry service barracks lie closs by the mighty Humptulips River, the home of mean Stealhead, fighting Silver Salmon, and cunning Cutthrout Trout. The turnoff spot for the road to Big Creek. The last chance to buy a Nehi Orange soda and a pack of two-fers. The only stop on the way to Quinault you can get gas. The hottest spot on a summer day in the county. One of the few places in the county where everyone (three houses) living on the flats has a rowboat tied to the front porch in case of flood. The area that produced countless (maybe two) right guards for the Hoquiam High School football team in their heyday. AND, where the best damn dances I ever attended were held in the Grange Hall during my misspent youth. Good old Humptulips. Population variously counted at around 20. Where the Elk herds have the right of way if you don't want your car destroyed. And, where bottom bumping in the river is an art form. Sighh, ah to return once more to the golden summers of youth. T. C. Wheeler