Miss Lydia Fairchild
344 Third Street
J. D. Fairchild House, 1897
Queen Anne-style house. Downstairs had five rooms - sitting room, parlor, dining room, bedroom and kitchen, as well as a reception hall. Upstairs was one large bedroom and two smaller bedrooms with large closets and a bathroom. The large bedroom was called the castle tower room. Back then there was no such thing a X-rated anything, since they didn’t have movies or magazines or the internet. So once a week someone left their shades up. This was one of the most famous peep show shades in Yreka, right up there in the right hand corner. Men would come as far away as Jacksonville, Oregon to watch Miss Lydia Fairchild parade nightly before her bedroom window pretending to do calisthenics. In fact, one man, Henry Kleinmueller, the investment banker turned poet laureate of Yreka, actually wrote a poem about her which was printed in the local newspaper:
This Yreka maid had such graces
That her curves cried aloud for embraces,
“You’re looking,” said he,
“Like a million to me –
Invested in all the right places!”
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James B. Martin
404 Third Street
The James B. Martin House, 1899
Martin was the author of the first self-help book, a best seller in the 1850’s . it was a very short book of advice - called “The Three Sentences To Bring You Success in Business.” Even today, people who want to get ahead in life realize the wisdom of Martin’s advice:
#1 was: “Cover for me.”
#2: “Oh, good idea, boss!”
#3: “It was like that when I got here!”
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submitted by Gerald P. Murphy Big Time Yreka History Type Guy and Playwright check out Gerald P. Murphy’s website - Romeo Loves Juliet for a diverse array of school musicals and plays * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * . . . . . . . . . . . ..Don’t miss the LIVE Incredible Secrets of Yreka Tour this weekend at Septemberfest in downtown Yreka. The tour is set to begin around 12 or 1pm.
