Tag Archives: White store

The Newton Boys

Posted on October 22, 2011 by GHHP

The Newtons: Growing Up With Garden Home Gladys and Albert Newton and their seven boys moved to Garden Home in the early fall of 1935. Their eldest, Donal McIntosh, Gladys’ son by a previous marriage, was in his last years at … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoirs, People | Tagged Jaeger, Jager, Johnson, Newton, Porshman, White store | 4 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

George and Mae Babbitt

Posted on February 21, 2010 by GHHP

Oral history interview done on Feb. 26, 2010 by Elaine Shreve George and Mae Babbitt moved to Garden Home in January of 1950. George served in the Army Air Force in WWII and moved to Oregon in a 1932 Ford … Continue reading →

Posted in Homes, Memoirs, People | Tagged Babbitt, Canfield, Fanno Creek, Krom, sewer, White store | 3 Comments

Mildred Stevens

Posted on December 7, 2009 by GHHP

Update: Mildred Stevens, August 24, 1916 to September 8, 2015. Mildred died a few days after her 99th birthday. She was loved and revered in Garden Home. She was essential to our research of Garden Home history. At 93 years … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoirs, People | Tagged ambulance, cannery, Old man Weber, Partlow, Seed and Feed, Stevens, SW Oleson Rd, T.E. Hills, Upchurch, White store | 5 Comments