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June 22, 2025 Meet and Greet at the Old Market Pub and Brewery

Posted on July 6, 2025 by GHHP

On June 22, 2025, we hosted a Meet and Greet in the back room of the Old Market Pub and Brewery. It was a terrific event featuring a presentation about a 1944 fighter plan crash in Garden Home and free … Continue reading →

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1944 Crash of Lt. Robert Strong’s P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane

Posted on November 18, 2013 by GHHP

We had reports from a number of residents who lived in Garden Home in the 1940s of a fighter plane crash in Garden Home. They recall that they went to the crash site to try to find souvenirs or the … Continue reading →

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Jack Steele

Posted on November 21, 2011 by GHHP

[Update: Jack passed away on December 26, 2014. His obituary appears at the end of this article.] In the 1940s and 50s, Jack and his 6 siblings lived at 8085 S. W. 87th Ave. which was then called Westgard. This … Continue reading →

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