WASHINGTON – DAY 3 – WISHKAH RIVER – ABERDEEN, WASH. . .

GROWING UP IN THE ERA I DID, I AM FAMILIER WITH R & R, R & B, DOWOP AND THE LIKES BUT TO A DIFFERENT GENERATION, THEIR MUSIC IS/WAS GRUNG NOT A SOUND I AM PARTICULARY FAMILAR WITH. WHILE VISITING & STAYING IN ABERDEEN WE DID HAVE THE PLEASURE VIEWING THE WISHKAH RIVER AND THE BRIDGE KURT COBAIN IS ALLEDGED TO HAVE SLEPT UNDER DURING HIS TROUBLED CHILDHOOD. THE FOLLOWING IS BORROWED FROM “A WALKING TOUR OF KURT COBAIN’S ABERDEEN” : During his sophomore year, Cobain moved back to Aberdeen and enrolled at Weatherwax High School. He lived with his mother in the old family house; a mere two blocks from the legendary Young Street Bridge rising above the muddy banks of the Wishkah River. Whether Cobain ever slept under this bridge as he claimed is not certain, however, he did spend time beneath the south approach, as did many of the neighborhood kids. His schooling in Aberdeen continued in a series of fits and starts before he dropped out permanently. In the spring of 1984, Cobain also moved out of his mother’s house. He found himself homeless and sometimes slept in a cardboard box on Crover’s porch in Aberdeen or in the waiting room at Grays Harbor Community Hospital. Cobain worked at the Lamplighter Restaurant in Grayland, on the south beach of the ocean, for a time and later as a janitor at Weatherwax High School – earning enough to rent an apartment in June 1985 at 404 N. Michigan Street in Aberdeen.

THE BRIDGE:

THE RIVER: THOSE THAT FOLLOWED KURT ARE AWARE THIS IS THE LOCATION WHERE HIS ASHES WERE PLACED . . . A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS LIFE:

THE PARK:

A “STONE” MEMORIAL IN THE GROUND: NOTE – NOTE: THE “F” WORD AS THE SAY, HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE CITY.

THIS PROPERTY RUNS INTO MARILYN’S NEICES PROPERTY.

WHILE LEAVING THIS WAS OUR VIEW:

AGAIN: LIFE IS GOOD, THANKS JIM AND MARILYN , UNCLE SAM I AM

Just a note of interest, an album released after kurts death was titled something along the line: “the banks of the wishkah river”