In this edition: History corner display of vintage tins, new Hunt Club historic photographs, remembering the history of Alpenrose and fight to save it, and discovering the Garden Home History artifacts on display at the Old Market Pub & Brewery.

Hello to our Garden Home History Friends – We wish you a joyous holiday season! As we look toward the end of the year, we invite you to consider donating to Garden Home History to help us promote historic Garden Home. We continue to be amazed that our website GardenHomeHistory.com averages about 750 users and 2,500 views per month.

History corner display

Vintage tins – Garden Home History corner at the Garden Home Library

This display in the Garden Home Library features vintage tin containers from the early 1900s. What do you have stored in vintage kitchen tins?

New Hunt Club historic photographs

1940-06-15 Hunt Club – Omer Bonney (on Gold Dust) and John Osburn (on Royal Chinook) jump their horses over a fence at the Portland Hunt Club in Garden Home

1940-06-15 Hunt Club – Omer Bonney stands next to his horse (Gold Dust) while holding a trophy, during the spring race meet for the Portland Hunt Club in Garden Home

1940-06-15 Hunt Club Garden Home Classic finish line

We recently discovered a trove of historic photos of the Portland Hunt Club (located in Garden Home) in the Oregon Historical Society’s digital collection. View the full collection of Hunt Club photos in Hunt Club and Riding Academies.

Remember Garden Home!

1952-07-02 1ZJ0000010118 Alpenrose

1960-08-01 1VACZ00010124 Alpenrose (the first baseball diamond was installed in 1956)

1970-07-08 1VCOA00010240 Alpenrose

Alpenrose Dairy delivery truck

Quarter midget go-kart racing at Alpenrose (source: The Oregonian – 100 years of history at Portland’s Alpenrose Dairy)

Rusty Nails Alpenrose Wanted Poster 1966

Alpenrose Field – Alpenrose baseball facilities were the home of the Little League Softball World Series from 1994 to 2019.

The 50-acre Alpenrose property on SW Shattuck Rd is slated to become a housing development with 139 attached (townhouses) and 130 detached (single family) homes. To read more about the plans to redevelop Alpenrose and the fight to preserve the sporting facilities, see Friends of Alpenrose.

For the full story and more photos of Alpenrose, see our History of the Alpenrose Dairy.

Discover Garden Home!

2020 Old Market Pub – Garden Home Post Office safe

Old Market Pub and Brewery owner Shelly Bigley in front of the Lewis and Clark Centennial photos at the Old Market Pub

2020 Old Market Pub – train reliefs from Colin Lamb

The Old Market Pub and Brewery has a number of Garden Home History artifacts on display: the vintage Post Office safe, and colorized historic photos and train reliefs from the now-closed Thriftway grocery store. Thanks Old Market Pub!

Volunteer and make friends

New people might enjoy research, interviews, visiting special Garden Home sites, write stories for the website, doing the History corner displays, and so much more! Call Mickey at 503-805-5518 or Esta at 503-246-5758. Board meetings 4:30-6:00 pm on the second Monday of the month.

Stay safe and well, from all of our volunteer 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