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Building Community: Making Connections
Rapid wartime growth put housing at a premium for the military servicemen and their families, construction workers, and irrigation project staff who vied for a spot to live in fast-growing Moses Lake. Victory Village, a temporary development on the shores of Moses Lake, helped alleviate the housing shortage.
Victory Village, temporary housing for
Moses Lake residents. Photo from The Spokesman Review, 1948, Spokane, WA., courtesy of The Spokesman Review.
Marjorie Ebel remembered how desperate some people were to find space to live:
When that air base opened, and they brought in these people to the air base, at first there wasn't any housing out there. Ours was one of the few homes in town that had three bedrooms. The GI's would come and knock on our door and ask if they could rent a room so they could bring their wives out. We finally rented to two different couples and we still correspond with one of those couples.
Cheerleaders practice on Larson Air Force
Base, 1947. The school district set up temporary classrooms
on the base before new schools opened in town. Photo from
1947 Moses Lake High School yearbook, courtesy of Moses Lake
School District
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