Wood Week with Spruce Girls — 10/28/1929 — #11592_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Hoquiam
Hoquiam Chamber of Commerce
Foot-shaped sign reads "The Board Foot from Hoquiam". Wood Week was an event held in October 1929 to promote the products of the Harbor's lumber industry.The Spruce Girls included Willa Biggs (fourth from left) and Dorothy Davis. Dorothy Davis had been a junior high school teacher and died in July 2007. Willa Biggs was believed to have been the last surviving original Spruce Girl. She died in August 2007 shortly before she was to have been honored during the traditional Logger's Playday Parade. The plan was for her to ride in a vintage car under a banner reading "Channel Point Village's Spruce Girl", a reference to the assisted living facility in which the former Spruce Girl resided. Thanks to Willa Biggs, John Larson, and Jill Bellis for contributing information.
