Articles by Naida Olsen Gipson

December 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Prettiest Tree

September 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Crannell Gang! A Story About a Group of Teenage Would-Be Ne’er-Do-Wells Looking for Ways to Raise a Ruckus in the Late 1940s

June 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Babes in Benbow! A Summer Job at Humboldt’s Glamorous Resort Hotel Sounded Nifty to One Eureka Girl in 1945. But Then…

April 2024

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: And Then the Men Came Back; Or, Football, Poverty and Enduring a Bad Marriage in Humboldt State’s Postwar Student Housing

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Studying and Not Studying at Humboldt State During the Second World War, When Young Women Made Up Most All of the Student Body

November 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Backwoods Balls! We Used to Drive Way the Hell Out Into the Hills and Dance, Dance, Dance Until it Was Time to Milk the Cows

October 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: RIP Daly’s Department Store — A Locally Owned, Fashion-Forward, Pneumatic Tube-Powered Wonderland That Gave This Girl Her First Shot in Business

September 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Big Thrills and Young Romance! Or, Growing Up Among Eureka’s Many Majestic Midcentury Movie Palaces

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Infamous Showers Pass Murders, and an Innocent Man Framed by Probably the Most Corrupt District Attorney Ever Seen in Humboldt County

May 2023

HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Eureka by Trolley! One Girl’s Memories of the City’s Magical Streetcar System