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In this edition: Fanno Creek Trail History Walk, The Life and Times of Ross Fogelquist and His Steiner Log House, Old Market Pub fire and re-opening, 1964 Alpenrose Country Fair Souvenir Program

Fanno Creek Trail History Walk

The next History Walk will be on Saturday, June 25 at 10 AM. Visit the library’s event page to register.

On our first History Walk of the Fanno Creek Trail on May 14, the weather cooperated for a nice day. Elaine Shreve, Garden Home History, and Heather Waisanen, Garden Home Community Library, conducted the 90 minute walk along the trail with the 12 registrants and a couple more History people. We noted the Aaron Frank Farm, Firlock Station, former Girl Scout campgrounds, Fredrickson bulletin board materials, Portland Golf Club trail to first club house, train wreck of 47 cars, conflict with the sewage pumping stations, trail art, Augustus Fanno, Fanno Creek, and concluding at Vista Brook Park checking out the ducks on the lake.

Elaine guiding the Fanno Creek Trail history walk, May 2022

Jan Fredrickson describing Firlock Station on the Fanno Creek Trail history walk, May 2022

Original train bridge supports over Fanno Creek

The Life and Times of Ross Fogelquist and His Steiner Log House

The spectacular book, The Life and Times of Ross Fogelquist and His Steiner Log House, is available at the Nordia House gift store on Oleson Road! Beautiful colored photos on every page, a history of this remarkable person here in Garden Home. The book release was celebrated on Saturday, June 4, 2022 at Nordia House. Attendees enjoyed nusic, refreshments, and tours of the grounds and Fogelbo.

A Henry Steiner and Fogelbo Tour with Ross Fogelquist YouTube video

Ross Fogelquist

Fogelbo, home of Ross Fogelquist

Fogelbo interior from loft

Old Market Pub fire and re-opening

The historic Old Market Pub has re-opened after the building suffered a kitchen fire and extensive smoke damage on March 28, 2022. The fire propelled them into a major reorganization, painting and repairs of the popular Pub at the convergence of Multnomah Boulevard and Garden Home Road.

We plan to have an event in the back room when it is available. Pizza and drinks! Presenting Garden Home of the early 1900s, rail station, Red store, Cannery, then Whitneys, Comellas, and finally the Old Market Pub!

Old Market Pub and Brewery

1964 Alpenrose Country Fair Souvenir Program

We recently received a fabulous 1964 Alpenrose Country Fair Souvenir Program, all the way from Hawaii, thanks to Cheryl Ames. She hated to throw it away. We hope that you’ll also offer us some unique Garden Home treasures when you clean house. We’ll do more of the Alpenrose story later this year. If you know any of the people currently working on this, please let me know. Visit our story on the history of Alpenrose to see the whole program.

1964 Alpenrose Country Fair – page 1

Remember!

Seventy eight years ago this June, a WW2 fighter plane crashed in Garden Home. Visit our website to read the full story of Robert Young’s King Cobra plane crash near SW 82^nd Ave near SW Washington Dr.

excerpt from the flight leader’s report

Discover Garden Home!

It will bring a smile to your face! Check out the duck families swimming in the large lake formed by the beavers in Hideaway Park! Note the large beaver dam at the entrance to the parking lot. Use great caution turning into the park from the south, easier from the north. Bring a snack, sit and enjoy!

Hideaway Park beaver pond May 2022

Duck families in Hideaway Park beaver pond May 2022

Get Involved

Our Board of Directors continues their monthly meetings, second Mondays at 4:15 in our homes. 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 and more! More Garden Home History walking Tours. We welcome new volunteers to our committees; let us know your interest. Call Elaine 503-246-5879, or Esta 503-246-5758.

John Pacella, Susan and Stan Houseman, Jan Fredrickson, Kevin Mistler March 2022

Sharon Vedder, Esta Mapes, Elaine Shreve, Marie Pacella March 2022

Historic Garden Home street sign

Historic Garden Home street signs: We currently have about over 40 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 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. 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.

In this edition: Remembering Gerry Frank, March 2022 Gazette, and Ace Hardware grand opening.

May 14 Fanno Creek Trail history walk

Fanno Creek Trail History Walking Tour May 14, 2022

We will be conducting a history walk on the Fanno Creek Trail in conjunction with the Garden Home Library on Saturday, May 14 at 10 AM. Limited to 12 persons.

Please register through the library’s website.

Remembering Gerry Frank

September 21, 1923 to March 13, 2022

We were sorry to learn of Gerry Frank’s passing on March 13, 2022, aged 98. Gerry was born on September 21, 1923 in Portland to Aaron and Ruth Frank. They lived in SW Portland and Gerry attended Ainsworth and Lincoln High School. In the 1920s, his parents bought the Frank Farm property here in Garden Home (now the Frank Estate condos) so that they could send their show horses to events around the nation. Aaron Frank had a siding developed beside the railroad tracks, near the Firlock Station train stop, now SW 78th Avenue. They could then load the horses into the special cars to travel to California or New York’s Madison Square Garden and elsewhere. The Frank Farm was part of the “horse culture” in Garden Home, along with the Hunt Club, and the two riding academies, all along SW Oleson Road, south of the school.

Our first interview with Gerry was in 2010 when Virginia Vanture and I met with Gerry in his two-room office in Salem. His walls were covered with photos of him meeting with various world leaders, part of his role as Chief of Staff for our U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield for twenty years. His family began the Meier & Frank Department store and he was the Manager of the first store in Salem. He served in Patton’s Third Army during WWII, and helped liberate the first concentration camp in Ohrduff, Germany.

Our Gerry Frank story tells the incredible story of Gerry’s life and his commitment to Oregon and to our nation. See our display memorializing Gerry in the Garden Home Community Library. He has honored us with the gift of 50 special horse photographs and the guest book with hundreds of names from the notable Frank Farm stables here in Garden Home.

Gerry Frank promotional photo 2018

Library 2001 Chocolate Contest judged by Gerry Frank – Leslie Brown, Patsy VandeVenter 2001

Gerry Frank (veteran)

Gerry Frank, 2010

March 2022 Newsletter

The March 2022 Gazette (PDF) is now available. If you have not been receiving the printed Gazette via USPS and would like to receive it for free, please send us your mailing address. You can email us at GardenHomeHistory@gmail.com or call Elaine Shreve at 503-246-5879. We do appreciate all donations.

Opening Ace Hardware in Garden Home

Ace Hardware Opens! Owner Terry Cain and manager Ben Peck tell us that “Ace Hardware Garden Home will have a staff of helpful hardware folks, all cultivated from the Garden Home community they serve, willing and ready to help with all DIY needs. Supported by the best power tool names in the business, like Craftsman, Milwaukee, DeWalt, and Black and Decker we will have the power you need to get the job done. When it comes time to dust off the cold and snow and get outside, we will have you covered there as well with names like EGO, Husqvarna, Toro, and John Deere. And as we move into Spring, those long trips to find seed, fertilizers, soils, and mulches are over. Ace Garden Home will have a huge supply of everything.” Other supplies include paints, keys, and a several brands of BBQs which feature “free assembly and delivery, a hallmark of Ace service.”

Fastener aisle – Ace Hardware opening 2022

Tools – Ace Hardware opening 2022

Drawer hardware – Ace Hardware opening 2022

Kitchen goods – Ace Hardware opening 2022

Paint – Ace Hardware opening 2022

Remember!

President Biden writes that “March, Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to honor the generations of trailblazing women and girls who have built our Nation, shaped our progress, and strengthened our character as a people.”

Take a moment to remember the women in your life.

Discover Garden Home!

Our history displays in the Garden Home Community Library. You’ll enjoy and learn about our history, our collections, and retell your own stories.

2022-03 Display cabinet – Jerry Frank

Calendar exhibit – Library display case January 2022

Cooking display cabinet in the Garden Home Community Library

Display case at Garden Home Library – vintage toys

Get Involved

Historic Garden Home street sign

Historic Garden Home street signs: We currently have about over 40 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 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. 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.