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Hunt Club Childhood of Mike Norris, M.D.

Posted on November 20, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

For children growing up in the Hunt Club area in the 1940s and ‘50s, it often felt like a park. Mike and his friends could be found sneaking through the gate into the Frank farm, shooting pheasants in Gertsch’s pond, … Continue reading →

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November 2019 News

Posted on November 10, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

In this edition: October 5 bell ringing, Lamb’s Thriftway closure, visit by famed organist and daughter of Dorothy Johnson, Dorothy Papadakos, and more favorite teacher recollections. Welcome to our website about historic Garden Home. In the People and Places pages, … Continue reading →

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September 9, 2019 Show and Tell event

Posted on October 15, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

We hosted a Show & Tell event on September 9, 2019. People were invited to bring something old to share with the group. Thank you to everyone! Louise Cook Jones shared and donated some early Garden Home memorabilia from the … Continue reading →

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October 2019 News

Posted on October 15, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

In this edition: October 5 bell ringing, Lamb’s Thriftway closure, visit by famed organist and daughter of Dorothy Johnson, Dorothy Papadakos, and more favorite teacher recollections. Welcome to our website about historic Garden Home. In the People and Places pages, … Continue reading →

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Barbara Kiggins Green memoir

Posted on October 8, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[Editor: See the 2022 obituary for Barbara Ann Green.] By Barbara (Kiggins) Green, 2019 (age 87) I was born in 1931 and we moved to Garden Home around 1934 or 1935. We lived in a small two room house with an … Continue reading →

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October 5, 2019 Historic Bell Ringing

Posted on October 8, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

We rang the historic 100-year old bell hanging in the bell tower of the Garden Home Marketplace (formerly Lamb’s Thriftway) on October 5, 2019. This event was bittersweet as it coincides with the imminent closing of the grocery store. We … Continue reading →

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Clark N. Stephens obituary

Posted on September 24, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

Clark N. Stephens, March 10, 1930 to September 1, 2019 Clark, the son of Noble and Bessie Stephens, was born in Portland and raised in Garden Home adjacent to the Portland Golf Club. He started caddying there when he was … Continue reading →

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September 2019 News

Posted on September 12, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

In this edition: August 24 Recreation Center Mini-Market, September 9 Show & Tell, Lamb’s Thriftway closure, and more favorite teacher recollections. Welcome to our website about historic Garden Home. In the People and Places pages, you’ll find almost two hundred … Continue reading →

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July 14, 2019 – Garden Home History Board Member picnic and tour of WormWood Manor

Posted on August 18, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

Garden Home History board members met for a July picnic at the historic WormWood Manor, hosted by Jan Fredrickson and Kevin Mistler, both on our Board of Directors. We tried out the new spinner and BINGO games about Garden Home … Continue reading →

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The Garden Home Totem Pole, by Andrew Gorman

Posted on August 18, 2019 by gardenhomehistoryproject

[Editor: Many of you who have lived in Garden Home since the 1990s will remember the surprising totem pole standing in the shrubs at the NW corner of SW 82nd and Garden Home Road. Unfortunately it gradually deteriorated in our … Continue reading →

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