Hello Friends! This summer brings wonderful events and beautiful gardens to Garden Home. Feel free to send us a reply, we read every one.
July 4th in Garden Home
It was all red, white, and blue along SW 89th and Carmel Court streets! Great fun for young and old! Thanks to professional photographer Patrizia Montanari for taking wonderful photos of the event. Here are a few of her photos. To see the rest of the photos (over 100!), visit the gallery on her website:
https://patriziamontanari.pixieset.com/gardenhome4thofjulyparade/
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – flying girl
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – fun for the ladies
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – Kajatani family
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – fun sunglasses
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – big parade
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – festive decorations
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – collector car
July 4, 2023 Garden Home parade – TVFR fire truck
Fogelbo tour
Our Garden Home History Board was invited to tour Ross Fogelquist’s home, Fogelbo, on SW Oleson Rd next door to the Nordia House. Ross and two docents shared with us hundreds of Scandinavian artifacts. We’re all looking forward to the Troll project and what surprises that will bring.
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – Ross speaking to group
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – Esta, Kevin, Jan, Ann, Sandy, Mickey
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – Kitchen
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – living room
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – group on the patio
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – Charlie, Sharon, Esta
July 16 2023 Tour of Fogelbo – back yard
Garden Home Library History Display Case
We’re celebrating Gardening in Garden Home! Thanks to early platting of many large lots, we’re enjoying…and working in… our gardens. We’d love to see photos of your garden: send to GardenHomeHistory@gmail.com Thanks to all of the Garden Home Gardeners for their work in the Oleson medians, including the memorial garden at SW 80th. Barb Stroud organizes the group and works on the corner median at the intersection. Thanks to Stan Houseman for his work, and photos, on the long median next to the Recreation Center.
Garden Home Gardens – Library History Cabinet, July-Aug 2023
Garden Home Library’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
We all shared a wonderful Saturday June 3 celebrating our Garden Home Library’s 40th anniversary! Hundreds of people, especially young families, enjoyed the bouncy house, baby goats, face painting, spinner games and the constantly moving man catching the invisible balls and more! We scooped up 5 gallons of ice cream cones, chocolate and vanilla, while people enjoyed our new large spinner and other displays. We were honored to have one of our previous school principals, Don Dunbar, come for a chat and some ice cream.
Click here to view the full gallery of photos.
Esta Mapes, John Pacella, and Patsy VandeVenter serving ice cream- Garden Home Library 40th Anniversary June 3, 2023
Susan and Stan Houseman, and Sharon Vedder with the History Spinner – Garden Home Library 40th Anniversary June 3, 2023
Talented juggler playing invisible catch with kids – – Garden Home Library 40th Anniversary June 3, 2023
Chocolate was a favorite – Garden Home Library 40th Anniversary June 3, 2023
Coming up: A bigger story about Frank Comella
Send us your memories of shopping at Comella & Sons & Daughter. Thanks to Pam Price for the Comella’s shopping bag.
Comella and Son and Daughter grocery bag
Tony Williams and Pam Price July 2021
Remember Garden Home!
You’ll recall that M. Lowell Edwards started his research and development of artificial heart valves with Dr. Albert Starr, right here in Garden Home in the building now occupied by Power Plumbing on Multnomah Boulevard. This led to the founding of Edwards Lifesciences, a multi-billion dollar company now headquartered in California. We recently found a wonderful multi-part history of Lowell Edwards on the OHSU website and recommend it highly. In Part 2: A Fascination with Pumps, it shows the buildings on today’s Power Plumbing campus.
See our story on Miles Lowell Edwards, heart valve inventor.
M. Lowell Edwards at his Garden Home laboratory, 1955
Discover Garden Home!
Discover the cob wall on Jon McCollum’s property where SW Alden meets SW Oleson near Garden Home Park. This wall was developed in 2010 and 2011 by Jeremy Krehpiel with assistance from volunteer parties and finally Jon McCollum who lives there now. The “cob” includes straw, sand, clay, some horse manure and also linseed oil mixed with the deep red paints on the wall. The paint on the wall has darkened over time, and parked cars often limit the view. The wall is extended by the huge tree trunk stumps from trees taken down on the property.
Jeremy Krehpiel applying plaster coat, 2010
Cob wall – gate before
Cob wall – gate after
Cob wall – window before
Cob wall – window after
Cob wall – long wall before
Cob wall – long wall after
Cob wall – planting
Get Involved
Garden Home History Project: Enriching the lives of our community by sharing the history of Garden Home.
Our Board of Directors continues their monthly meetings. Call to attend. Current subjects include displays in the Library and bulletin board, Century Homes program (we have some 39 Century Homes in Garden Home), Historic Garden Home street signs, new businesses, our newsletters, program planning with the Garden Home Library, Fanno Creek Trail History Walking Tour, and more! We welcome new volunteers to our committees; let us know your interest. Call Mickey at 503-805-5518 or Esta at 503-246-5758.
Stay safe and well, from all of our dedicated Board of Directors: Mickey Lindsay, Esta Mapes, Sharon Vedder, John and Marie Pacella, Stan and Susan Houseman, Jan Fredrickson, Kevin Mistler, and Elaine Shreve. Tom Shreve is our webmaster.
– Elaine
Elaine Shreve
GardenHomeHistory.com 