To Roger Edwards

I would like to thank Roger Edwards (in the red hat), founder of the Salmon Beach Historical Society, for his help in our efforts. All of the old photos that you will see here are from the vast collection of Roger Cushman Edwards. Roger is, in my opinion, one of our greatest natural resources here at Salmon Beach. He's devoted decades of his life to the gathering of the beach's history in collections of pictures, interviews and, finally, the publishing of a beautifully done book called "Tacoma's Salmon Beach". His efforts in putting together the book have given us all a valuable connection to our past and has made us aware, not only of the value of documenting our time here at the beach, but preserving tidbits of of the past as we stumble upon it. The people that snapped photos of friends and family so that they could show off their tent camps, fish, or boats, had no idea that, in some cases nearly a century later, we would be looking at the same pictures and pointing out both the differences and the similarities. It kind of makes you think. At any rate, if not for the efforts of Roger we would not have the large number of photos to look back on or the stories that go with them. For that I say, thank you Roger.