Welcome to our website about historic Garden Home. In the People and Places pages, you’ll find almost two hundred stories and over fifteen hundred photos of vintage Garden Home and residents attending our events.
Upcoming Events
poster – May 18, 2018 Reception honoring Ginny Mapes
Friday, May 18, 11 am – 1 pm: Reception honoring Ginny Mapes, author of Garden Home-the way it was, Traces of the Past and Chakeipi, the story of early Beaverton. Slides of vintage Garden Home, refreshments and a reunion with classmates and teachers in Garden Home School. Click here to read more.
Monday, June 11, 6:30 – 7:15 pm. Free, 30-minute slide show presentation, topic to be announced, followed by Board meeting.
Saturday, June 16, 10 am – 2 pm. Come and ring the historic 100-year old bell hanging in Lamb’s Thriftway Marketplace. We will have displays of vintage photos.
News
We held our Board of Director’s annual meeting on March 12, and elected our officers:
- Co-Chairs: Patsy VandeVenter and Elaine Shreve
- Treasurer: Marie Pacella
- Secretary: Mark Kajitani
- Board members: Stan and Susan Houseman, Jan Fredrickson, Virginia Vanture, Esta Mapes, Louise Cook Jones, and John Pacella
- Advisory committee members: Bob Cram, Sharon Cram, Tom Shreve, Sharon Vedder, and Carole Vranizan.
Black Rock Coffee Shop: This new enterprise has made its appearance via a huge crane lifting the prefab pieces into place! This drive-through and table service café is located adjacent to the Buy 2/Shell station on SW Garden Home Road. The exit from the Shell station onto SW Garden Home Rd has been modified to prevent turning left onto SW Garden Home Rd. Harry Pinniger tells us that this was the location of the Garden Home Water District office building before it merged into the Tualatin Valley Water District (Harry served on the Garden Home Water District board).
This Spring: We’re gathering the unique features of Garden Home that we’ll unfold for you in some manner, wonderful surprises! Stay posted for the details.
Other News
Remembering many of our other stories. These fun excerpts from our stories are just samples of the content you can discover browsing our almost 200 articles. We hope you are writing your story for your family.
Colin Lamb: The electricity was off in the Garden Home area for about a week after the Columbus Day storm in 1962. Of course, many homes had no heat so Dad left the presto logs out in the front of the store with a note to pay for them the next day.
Dan Nebert: Therefore, the church window at all times seemed to remain unlocked, so that we were always able to enjoy our rainy Saturday afternoon ping-pong games.
Plane crash: Lt Strong managed to guide the plane over the town of Metzger to what looked like a wooded area before bailing out and landing in some nearby trees unhurt.
Zora and Sharka Becvar: We sat for a little while and, since we did not understand what the teacher was saying, we just looked at each other, got up and left the room and went home.
Bob Feldman: you might have seen young Bob Feldman riding his bike home from Garden Home School precariously toting a pail of slop from the cafeteria to feed his new baby pigs.
You are invited to our Board meetings which are held the second Monday of most months, 6:30 pm at the Garden Home Recreation Center. We had five thirty-minute slide presentations 2017 from 6:30 to 7 pm. Our Board then meets at 7 pm. We’d love to have anyone interested to work with us.
Patsy VandeVenter, Virginia Vanture, Elaine Shreve, Carole Vranizan
Get your Historic Garden Home t-shirt now for just $14 for small to XL. Larger XXL and XXXL sizes are $17. There is an additional charge of $9 to mail your shirt. They’re fun! Available at the Garden Home Market Place.
Historic Garden Home street sign
Historic Garden Home street signs: We currently have about 35 of the Historic Garden Home street sign toppers in our community. Each sign was purchased by a friend or family member to honor their loved one. Click here to view photos of the signs and for information about sponsoring a sign.
Our generous donors permit us to print and mail this newsletter ($140) for our non-e-mail people and for the Garden Home Recreation Center. We also replace the Historic Garden Home street signs once for signs that disappear, current cost for each sign, $60. With our latest order, we’ll have about 35 signs out in our neighborhoods. We also have website costs, printing, paper, plaques and many other costs of an organization. Donor names are listed on our History Bulletin Board at the Recreation Center. Thank you to all of our donors and to all of our volunteers for their time and skills.
Garden Home History Project 