Here is an iconic moment in time for Salem, and for our neighborhood. On April 25, 1935 (85 years ago from this writing) a raging fire consumed the roof and copper dome of this, Oregon’s second State Capitol building built in 1874. It was designed by the Portland firm of architects Justus F. Krumbein and […]
In cleaning one closet out this weekend and throwing away lots, taking a box to Goodwill, some things to file…I found a stack of cards that a local funeral parlor (now the site of a Starbuck’s) made up in the 1950’s and handed out. They are all photos of Salem from the early 1900’s and […]
Ellen Stevens and a group of citizens is working on saving the beautiful Church Street Bridge. It was built in 1928 and designed by then Salem bridge engineer R.A.Furrow, one-time colleague of well-known bridge designer Conde McCullough. The bridge is a beauty… spanning Pringle Creek (which is a pretty swollen, roaring body of water today…due […]
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
This week a sad battle was lost downtown. The Ladd and Bush branch of U.S. Bank had been denied it’s request to remove a row of street trees that many of us had loved for decades. The Shade Tree Advisory Committee voted against the removal of the trees, but the bank appealed and won March […]
