Tag Archives: Throckmorton store

Memoir of Dorothy Lois Upchurch (1919-2009)

Posted on May 24, 2016 by GHHP

This story about the Upchurch family was sent to us by Dorinda Troutman, from her home in Hamilton, Montana. Her mother Dorothy Lois Upchurch Hogue Bates was a teenager and young woman when her parents Theresa Boyd Upchurch and her … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoirs, People | Tagged Jager, Meier & Frank, Nichols, Old man Weber, T.E. Hills, Throckmorton store, Troutman, Upchurch, White store | 12 Comments

History of Garden Home written by students in 1962

Posted on November 18, 2013 by GHHP

The following Garden Home history was written by seventh grade students in 1962. It was apparently presented publicly by the PTA at a Founder’s Day event, 1964. We have an original quite faded copy with the name Dorothy Meisner at … Continue reading →

Posted in Early History, School | Tagged Garden Home School, Jager, Johnson, Marugg, Nichols, Red & White Store, Throckmorton store, Trains, White store | 3 Comments

Carolyn Ernstrom Welch

Posted on November 22, 2012 by GHHP

About 1950 through 1957 In my experience, having lived in Garden Home in 1950 when I was eight years of age, and then again in 1955 through the summer of 1958, when I was twelve through fifteen years old, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoirs, People | Tagged Ernstrom, Throckmorton store, Welch, White store | 2 Comments

Don Smith

Posted on March 22, 2012 by GHHP

[Editor’s note: Don passed away in April, 2022, read his obituary here.] March 29, 2010, Rev. 2012 Don Smith is a retired golf pro who worked at the Portland Golf Club, Golf Land, Eastmoreland Golf course and at the national … Continue reading →

Posted in Early History, Memoirs, People | Tagged baseball, golf, post office, Scherner, Smith, Throckmorton store, White store | 8 Comments

Clark Stephens

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GHHP

[Editor: Clark passed on September 1, 2019, see also the obituary for Clark Stephens.] My parents Noble and Bessie (Elizabeth) Stephens moved to Garden Home in 1928. They both were going to business school in Portland. They and friends would go camping … Continue reading →

Posted in Historic Events, Memoirs, People, School | Tagged baseball, golf, parrot, Red & White Store, Steele, Stephens, SW 78th Ave, Throckmorton store, Trains, White store | 10 Comments

Colin Lamb and the history of Lamb’s Garden Home Thriftway

Posted on April 21, 2010 by GHHP

April 22, 2010 by Colin Lamb My Dad, Forrest Lamb, developed the first Lamb’s Thriftway in 1957 on the northeast section of the Garden Home intersection. Dad and his brother Robert had started a grocery business, Lamb Brothers Market, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Historic Events, Memoirs, Places | Tagged Garden Home Market Place, Lamb's Thriftway, Throckmorton store, White store | 29 Comments

Oscar and Mary Olson

Posted on March 22, 2010 by GHHP

Interviewed March 2010. Oscar and Mary Olson have retired to a lovely complex, Mary’s Woods in Lake Oswego. They have fond memories of Garden Home, a place where they raised their family. They lived most of the time at 7380 S.W. 77th in … Continue reading →

Posted in Historic Events, Memoirs, People | Tagged Olson, Seed and Feed, SW 77th Ave, Throckmorton store, Trains, White store | Leave a comment