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Archive Home > 2005 > July > 01 > Work and playRalph Hammer looks back on fun jobs, hard times and one very inexpensive house

Work and playRalph Hammer looks back on fun jobs, hard times and one very inexpensive house

By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
July 1, 2005

When Ralph Hammer was a child, three explorers discovered the South Pole, Bend's population hovered somewhere around the 600 mark and the Titanic lost its battle with buoyancy.

Life was both hard-edged and sweet for a homesteader's son in Wapinitia, near Maupin.

"When we was kids, we had....

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