Hello Garden Home History Friends,
Thank you to all of you who have responded so nicely to our monthly Updates about Garden Home history. We are grateful for your stories and photos!
Pumpkins in Garden Home: We’re hoping that your tomatoes are ripening, that you and your family are well, that children are getting ready for a creative new school year, and that everyone has had some fun this summer. Here is a wonderful front yard pumpkin patch seen in Garden Home the first of September!
Garden Home pumpkins Sep 1, 2020
Old Market Pub and Brewery: Thanks to the very generous offer from Andy and Shelly Bigley of the Old Market Pub to display some of our artifacts from the Garden Home Thriftway. Stop in for takeout, dine-in, a drink, some pizza, or a sandwich, and check out our two photos from the 1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial in Portland. The vintage Garden Home postal safe and the three train reliefs are also there. Stan Houseman also snagged the huge Post Office eagle and postal schedule which will go up soon. Thanks to Stan for moving this project along and to Colin Lamb for the photos and train reliefs. I wrote the histories for all of the photos and reliefs. Old Market Pub and Brewery: 6959 SW Multnomah Blvd, 503-244-2337. Read our story about the history of the Old Market Pub and Brewery.
Shelly Bigley in front of the Lewis and Clark Centennial photos at the Old Market Pub
Garden Home Post Office safe on display in the Old Market Pub
The original Whitney’s Cannery sign on display in the Old Market Pub
Historic Log Home Demolished: We were sorry to see the Judy George log home falling to the demolition bulldozer. This log home on SW 87th Ave. (south of Garden Home Road) was built in 1900 on what was then called Westgard Street. This modest house had been added to until it was not salvageable. The lot is being prepared for its new home.
Log house construction
New Housing Developments: You have probably noticed the two large housing developments on SW Garden Home Road. Both the Piper Ridge development at SW 87th Ave. and the Garden Home Estates between SW 81st Ave. and SW 78th Ave. will each have 9 new homes developed by Westwood Homes (plus the original homes on the respective lots). Both properties were previously large pastures with horses in the last century. Early Garden Home was platted with large lots for typical family needs such as a cow, chickens, fruit trees, pasture, and a garden.
Windmill Fun: The original windmill photo from Shirley Gertsch Bartels was so washed out that you could hardly see these two men from Shattuck Dairy having fun. Thanks to David Delgado, a new resident who offered to improve some of our vintage photos, you can enjoy the fun…and bravado…from these men!
Shattuck Dairy – showing off on windmill used to pump water – edited by David Delgado
Thriftway Opening in 1981: Thanks to Bob and Sharon Cram for sharing this flyer from 1981 and helping us to clarify the Thriftway dates. The current 1995 store building with the bell tower was added on to this 1981 building. Read the story about the history of Lamb’s Thriftway.
1981 flyer for new Thriftway
Have you noticed the old rail bed at SW 71st Ave.? We’re working with Michelle Middlebrooks on a new story about the southern rail line carving through Garden Home and the Middlebrooks’ property.
Middlebrooks railway bed entry at SW 71st
Thank you for your donations, and thanks to our Treasurer Marie Pacella for processing them: Marie works hard maintaining our books and our mailing database. If you want a printed hard-copy of our quarterly newsletter, you can subscribe for $10 per year (the email version is free).
Stay safe and well,
Elaine Shreve
Elaine Shreve
Garden Home History Project 