1948 flood looking west from our yard. House on the right is Dr. Leonard (later Jardine’s). The cabins are the B&L auto court of Mr Bates and later the View Point Auto court. The house on the left was Johnny (“stucco”) Bosa and I can’t recall the owners of the house behind the motel. (Courtesy Trevor Kurth, photo from Mike Dodd)

In last week’s The Way We Were, we looked at three floods in Osoyoos’ history where the level of Osoyoos Lake surpassed this year’s high of 916.45 feet above sea level – the floods of 1894, 1948 and 1972.

“One of your pictures really hit home because my family owned and ran the Sandy Beach Motel (40+ years – Elizabeth Ehlers),” reader Trevor Kurth told us.

He sent along the three photos above and three others that were passed along to him by Mike Dodd showing the flood of 1948.

The one top right was taken from Dodd’s house (next to Bella Villa) looking toward Anarchist.

There’s another photo of a little girl sitting in the same spot on dry land a year later.

The house on the left in the same photo, Kurth said, was where his grandmother lived and is part of the Sandy Beach Motel next to the tennis court.

Kurth thinks the photo just above this story was the old Bella Villa.

His mother told him that in the flood of 1972, the basement flooded up to the level of the beds.

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RICHARD McGUIRE

Osoyoos Times

1948 flood looking from our yard south-east towards Sengotti’s house (Elibabeth Ehler’s) and Chalmers house. (Steril & Mrs Thompson with Viv, Ken, Stu, Viv and Gary Chalmers). The kids we played the most with – usually cards and games at their house or sometimes ours. (Courtesy Trevor Kurth from Mike Dodd)

1948 flood looking north at Kurt & Amy Grindler’s house. To the right in the darkness you can see a faint woman that looks like Amy. Also the edge of house and what looks like a wood shed. We played with Lyla, Marvin, Joanne and Donald as we grew up. They moved out in the 1950’s and later had two or three more children. Kurt & brother Herb had Kurt’s cartage trucking in town I think. Also they made pumice blocks about where the current Osoyoos cement works is. Kurt was 90 years old in 2000. Amy had died several years earlier. (Courtesy Trevor Kurth from Mike Dodd)