While sorting through papers I came across the obituary of Fred. Lendman (1924-2011). Fred was one of many wonderful  people that I met during my research journey. In 1949, Fred, a forester by profession, started his career with Fruit Growers Supply Company at Westwood. During the winter months, Fruit Growers assigned Fred  a variety of jobs. In the winter of 1950, Fred had the job being the veneer log pond “monkey.” This job required Fred to keep a log supply going into the veneer plant and on occasion he would have to do the dynamite routine to blast the frozen segment of the millpond.

When I met Fred in the early 1980s, he was working for the Paul Bunyan Lumber Company in Anderson. It was at this time, Fred telephoned me about a photograph collection that was bound for the dump. Off I went to Anderson, Fred gave me a box of some 300 8 x10 photographs of Paul Bunyan Lumber Company operations at Susanville from the 1940s through the early 1960s.

Tim