BOO!!!!
01 Thursday Nov 2012
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Category Archives: CCRHD
Old East Salem
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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A recent conversation I had with a friend about what Salem used to look like, sent me to my photo “archive” to take a look. Here’s the building at 12th Street and Center Street today
and here’s the old East School just before demolition in 1950 to make way for the Safeway…
and going a little further back here are some earlier Salem students at East School…maybe about 1890?
East School was fairly tall and many photos were taken from the top…here’s a view looking south with Center street in the immediate foreground and Chemeketa Street in the middle. The building to the far right is the old state capitol building before the dome was placed on top…
and here’s a view looking east with the corner of Marion and 14th in view…
A town of small white houses, big gardens, barns…just nice to peek into the past sometimes…
Friday Was Neighborhood Day…
17 Monday Sep 2012
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Ann Kresge, Art, Artists, book making, Court Chemeketa Residential Historic District, Lost Coast Culture Machine, movie making
Friday I stayed pretty much in the neighborhood, but luckily this is a neighborhood with fun stuff happening…neighbor and book artist Ann Kresge agreed to do a quick tutorial for me on a couple of basic book formats, before I go off to California for my week at the Lost Coast Culture Machine with Carolyn Schneider.
I choose the two simplest formats…the figure 8
and the accordion..
Ann is a good teacher and dutifully had me try each step…but the most fun was watching her deftly glue the cover paper I had chosen for the accordion…
and..TA DA…my two finished books…
And then…on the way home, I noticed they were making a movie at the corner…
and finally at G&A’s for a quiet dinner by the creek…you have to love CCRHD (Court Chemeketa Residential Historic District)…
Frankie’s Garden
06 Sunday May 2012
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Court Chemeketa Residential Historic District, Frankie Bell, gardens, Mill Creek, water features
I forgot to mention that Frankie started playing uke with Carol and Sharon and me. When we were dropping her off the other day (Frankie and George are neighbors in the historic district) she invited us to stroll her garden saying “it’s a little wild”…but in fact it’s just plain beautiful…and it’s only just May. The sound of water is the background music you need to imagine…her own waterfall near the house and then Mill Creek at the bottom of the garden… Take a stroll…she said she didn’t mind…
…and look…there’s Carol’s house across the creek!
Flood Report…
20 Friday Jan 2012
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Seattle is snowed in but down here in the Willamette Valley we are in a flood. I went out at noon to check a neighbor’s house who is on vacation, and saw that Mill Creek is flooding…
Then at 4:00 we thought we’d go take a survey and didn’t have to go far…here’s our corner (Court and 17th)
and we’re still several blocks from Mill creek, so we got closer and it’s not a pretty sight…
the footbridge on Court Street at the creek is awash…
and the river is still 2 feet from flood stage with at least 5 days of rain predicted…(under the bridge at the left of the photo is a paddle wheeler…DOCKED…).
The neighborhood is swarming with volunteers and sandbags are the watchword…
Fingers crossed…
Follow-up to the Moving Experience…
19 Saturday Nov 2011
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Today wasn’t the BEST day for photographing, but here are all those buildings that were moved, as they look today in their “new” locations…
Gatke Hall (formerly the Salem post office) has been newly refurbished by Willamette University and looks pretty smashing with the new trim color (…now if they would just replace the striped awnings of 1910, which were in those beautiful rounded first floor windows…!)
The former parsonage of the Presbyterian church, now at the corner of Court and 18th…(CCRHD)
The Barquist house, now on Court between 13th and 14th…(CCRHD)
the Carleton Smith house now on Cannon Street S (and for sale…anybody…?)
the former Heritage Tree now on state just east of 25th…
