A two-handled saw and framed pictures depict logging's growing prominence after the last mine closed in 1963. We had five grocery stores when the mines were working. When the mines closed, so did the businesses where workers spent their money. The garage now serves as Trendwest's local office. A town divided Roslyn, without a doubt, has seen better days.
Empty lots serve as reminders of neighbors or businesses that moved away.
Grocery shopping must be done in neighboring Cle Elum, a town of 1,700 a couple of miles down state Route 903. Standing near a spot made famous by television, William Mooney, visiting from Lucerne, Calif., chuckles while reading the police report in the Cle Elum Daily Record during sightseeing in downtown Roslyn. Mooney and his wife Eva were on their way to the real Alaska. Some of the small, old houses are in disrepair, siding coming off here, a broken window there. Some don't want to see that change, and the debate over the resort has turned residents against each other.