Olympic Stadium — 10/12/1948 — #L31R18F13_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Hoquiam
This aerial view by Stan Spiegle shows Olympic Stadium. In this photograph, it is configured for baseball. It was built as one of the many Works Progress Administration projects that created jobs and community assets throughout America during the Great Depression.
Thanks to Terri Middleton who adds: “Olympic Stadium, built in 1937, was funded by the Work Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. The stadium was first named for its location, 28th and Cherry Athletic Park. In 1938 A contest was held to give it a permanent name and during halftime of the first Thanksgiving Day Game between Aberdeen and Hoquiam high schools the winner was announced. Stanley Erickson won a 3 year pass to all events at the new Hoquiam Olympic Stadium. Other names suggested were Cherry Bowl (for the street), Hoquiam Happy Hollow, Fish Bowl, Mud Bowl, New Deal Park, Rain Bowl, Clam Bowl. The stadium was built primarily to host baseball and several teams called it home over the years, the last team being the Grays Harbor Gulls of the Western League in the 1990’s. Olympic Stadium is home to the Hoquiam High School Grizzlies and every fall hosts the logger’s show that ends the Loggers Playday festival. One of the only all wood stadiums left in the country it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 2006.”
