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| Click on a date and read about a slice of Aberdeen history! |
1980 - April 17 - Hoquiam police officer Donald Burke killed. 1980 - May 25 - Mount St. Helens ash hits Harbor. 1980 - May 28 – Spar Restaurant gutted by fire. 1980 - November 2 - Ice Palace demolished. 1981 - August 5 - South Shore Mall opens. 1981 - August 18 - Fire destroys the old Anderson & Middleton Mill. 1981 - December 29 - Harbor unemployment rate hits 16.3%. 1982 - July 27 - Fire chars remains of M.S. Sierra. 1982 - September 17 - New Driftwood Theater opens at 3rd and I Streets. 1982 - October 12 - E.C. Miller Lumber Mill auctioned. 1983 - September 20 - Old E.C. Miller Lumber Mill in South Aberdeen burns. 1984 - February 12 - Electric Park Power House demolition under way. 1984 - August 28 - Mayr Bros. Lumber Company files for bankruptcy. 1984 - December 10 - Parking meters removed from downtown Aberdeen. 1985 - January 17 - Electric Park Powerhouse now just rubble. 1986 - November 16 - Last movie shown at Aberdeen Theater. 1987 - August 6 - Soviet sailor defects from ship docked in Grays Harbor. 1987 - September 13 - Keel laid for Lady Washington 1988 - August 9 - Port of Grays Harbor dedicates Westport viewing tower. 1988 - September 14 - St. Joseph’s Hospital closes. 1988 - December 23 - Oil spill off Harbor when tug rams barge U.S. Nesfucca 1989 - March 7 - Lady Washington launched. |