Klamath Heritage: Mode O'Day

Klamath Heritage: Mode O'Day

Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for Oct. 7, 2018, shows the Mode O’Day dress shop, a lesser but long-lived fixture on Main Street from 1935 until 1984.

Mode O’Day opened at 602 Main Street in Klamath Falls in December 1935. In the midst of the Depression, dresses ranged in price from $1 to $3 each. Shortly after opening the store moved to a new location at 835 Main, tucked in between the J.J. Newberry department store and Waggoner Drug Store. The store remained in this location until it closed. Zach’s Bikes was one of the more recent occupants of this space.

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Klamath Heritage: Spencer Creek Trestle

Klamath Heritage: Spencer Creek Trestle

Several large railroad trestles once stood at various locations around Klamath County. Our Photo of the Week for Sept. 30, 2018, shows the trestle that spanned Spencer Creek on Weyerhaeuser Company’s “west side” mainline railroad, also known as the 100 line.

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