Next week the final installment on House #75, which still stands today, a testament to the Baima family’s legacy of coal mining. This photo comes courtesy of Vicki (Baima) Olson, John’s daughter. Baima and Rubatino also worked coal seams at the Grand Ridge and Issaquah mines from 1938 to 1951. All five sons eventually worked in the coal mining industry, most prominently Joe who despite an underground accident which crippled him for life, started the B & R Coal Company, with his lifelong friend Mike Rubatino in March 1932. His sons Joe and Peter were members of that prize-winning band. After many research i concluded that buff Barney is harmless but. His funeral saw a horse-drawn hearse carry his body to the graveyard near Lake Boren as friends and relatives looked on while the Newcastle band played. Barney, Baby Bop, B.J., and friends dance and sing.Sing and dance along with Barney Subscribe to the official Barney YouTube channel for. This specimen appears to look like the average Barney but for some reason it is very buff. Following a long illness, Barney died in October 1916. However, 15 years of coal mining left Barney “gasping, choking for air, a victim of mine smoke, powder dust, and coal dust,” according to his son Valentino. Four years later the Baima family moved into Pacific Coast Company House #75, which was to be associated with the Baimas for the next eight decades. Barney Baima Family – Shown here are Bernard and Adriena Baima with their five sons: Joe, Peter, John, Valentino, and Adolf, also known as “Buff.” Barney, as he was known, and Adriena emigrated from Turin, Italy to Renton in 1901, before moving to Newcastle in 1902.
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