ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Hama Hama History</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <!-- ImageReady Preload Script (hist.psd) --> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- function newImage(arg) { if (document.images) { rslt = new Image(); rslt.src = arg; return rslt; } } function changeImages() { if (document.images && (preloadFlag == true)) { for (var i=0; i<changeImages.arguments.length; i+=2) { document[changeImages.arguments[i]].src = changeImages.arguments[i+1]; } } } var preloadFlag = false; function preloadImages() { if (document.images) { history_05_over = newImage("hist/history_05-over.gif"); history_06_over = newImage("hist/history_06-over.gif"); history_07_over = newImage("hist/history_07-over.gif"); history_08_over = newImage("hist/history_08-over.gif"); history_09_over = newImage("hist/history_09-over.gif"); history_10_over = newImage("hist/history_10-over.gif"); history_11_over = newImage("hist/history_11-over.gif"); preloadFlag = true; } } // --> </SCRIPT> <!-- End Preload Script --> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#AFBEBB ONLOAD="preloadImages();"> <!-- ImageReady Slices (hist.psd) --> <center> <TABLE WIDTH=730 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2> <IMG SRC="hist/history_01.jpg" WIDTH=730 HEIGHT=97></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <IMG SRC="hist/history_02.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=21></TD> <TD WIDTH=585 HEIGHT=555 ROWSPAN=11 valign="top" BACKGROUND="barn.jpg"> <TABLE width="585" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="10"><TR><TD> <BR> <BR> <IMG SRC="photos/bridge.jpg" WIDTH="158" HEIGHT="116" HSPACE="8" VSPACE="2" border="0" align="left" alt="bridge"> <FONT SIZE="2"> <font face="verdana"> <B><FONT COLOR="#660000">History</FONT></B> <p>The Hama Hama Company was founded in 1922 by Daniel and Helena Robbins. At that time, the family decided to name the company after the river that flowed through the property but chose the spelling  Hama Hama instead of the more common  Hamma Hamma or even the rare  Huma Huma. </p> <p>Originally a logging company, Hama Hama employed nearly 400 people and helped support a school, a hotel, and a dance hall in the town of Eldon during the 1920s. An early supporter of girl scouting in Washington State, Helena Robbins arranged for the family to donate land and money towards the creation of a Girl Scout camp along Hood Canal, which was called Camp Robbinswold in her honor. In the 1950s, Bart Robbins began farming oysters and clams on the river delta. He drove the oysters into Seattle twice a week to show them to chefs and was instrumental in creating a market for oysters on the half shell.</p> <p>Today, Hama Hama is still owned and operated by the Robbins family and currently sells Christmas trees, grass-fed beef, and sustainably-harvested timber, in addition to shellfish, from its location along the eastern slopes of the Olympic Mountains. In a region characterized by high unemployment and tourist-industry jobs, Hama Hama provides stable employment and benefits to all its full-time employees managers and oyster pickers alike.</p> <p>The Hama Hama retail farm store is open seven days a week, year round. Visitors to the farm can watch the oyster shucking in action, picnic along the waterfront, learn about oyster cultivation and biology, and buy Hama Hama oysters and clams at their absolute freshest. </p> </FONT></FONT> </td> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <IMG SRC="hist/history_04.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=29></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="index.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_05', 'hist/history_05-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_05', 'hist/history_05.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_05" SRC="hist/history_05.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="rest.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_06', 'hist/history_06-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_06', 'hist/history_06.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_06" SRC="hist/history_06.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=31 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="history.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_07', 'hist/history_07-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_07', 'hist/history_07.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_07" SRC="hist/history_07.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=28 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="products.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_08', 'hist/history_08-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_08', 'hist/history_08.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_08" SRC="hist/history_08.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=34 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="contact.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_09', 'hist/history_09-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_09', 'hist/history_09.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_09" SRC="hist/history_09.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=32 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="http://www.hamahamastore.com/" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_10', 'hist/history_10-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_10', 'hist/history_10.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_10" SRC="hist/history_10.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=30 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="links.html" ONMOUSEOVER="changeImages('history_11', 'hist/history_11-over.gif'); return true;" ONMOUSEOUT="changeImages('history_11', 'hist/history_11.gif'); return true;"> <IMG NAME="history_11" SRC="hist/history_11.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=34 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <A HREF="http://hamahamaoysters.com/blog/"> <IMG NAME="blog_01" SRC="blog_01.gif" WIDTH=137 HEIGHT=30 BORDER=0></A></TD> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <IMG SRC="hist/spacer.gif" WIDTH=145 HEIGHT=300></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </center> <!-- End ImageReady Slices --> </BODY> </HTML>