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 […]
That’s a phrase now, “old school”…meaning the way things used to be done or even how things used to look. My brother Doug was here the other night and the talk turned to his blog about a real old school in the Alameda/Alberta district in Portland. He was writing a blog post about the Old […]
The photographer Barbara Rowland was such a talented presence in our art community. I met her at the first Project Space, some years ago. She walked around and around Salem taking photos, was never without a camera. Because she was a wily photographer she was also good at avoiding being photographed herself…but I did get […]
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 […]
That’s a mix of activities, like any good Wednesday can provide…but first, anybody know what’s happening to the McGilchrist Building? we were so happy to see the ugly stuff coming off an revealing the original graceful proportions or the windows…here’s hoping they are heading in the right direction! Alisa breezed into town yesterday from Santa […]
Well just about this time in 1991 we were “building” the Arbor Cafe…certain that soon there would be 10 downtown restaurants opening up. Oops. Never happened. But this summer in Salem the restaurant scene is heating up… Have you been to Maven yet…?? Good food, good ambience…State Street. for Salem-ites it’s right across the street […]
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
As you can see this last tree near the front door of U.S.Bank’s Ladd and Bush Branch is healthy and beautiful… It would be such a vote of confidence for this community, a community that doesn’t like to think of a NON-community bank altering our landscape so dramatically, if this one tree could be saved. […]
In any city, even a small one like ours, the trees tell stories…who planted them, who decided, when they were planted. And on. As luck would have it, I happened to be down at the Ladd and Bush Bank Friday photographing a moment… just as David Rosales was being arrested for his protest of the […]
There’s a moment in the spring garden where everything looks neat and tidy, beautiful, organized…and this week is it. You know, just before it all gets wild and overgrown and crazy. Bill was here to help us tidy up and it just looks beautiful to me today ( “Of course my baby is the […]
