Category: 2014 Archives

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Do you Know These Kids?

By Tim Lyman · December 1, 2014 Are you in this picture, or do you know someone who is? This picture was taken (we think) in the Multnomah Drug Store or Ed’s Camera Corner about 1960....

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Then and Now – Annie Bloom’s

By Tim Lyman · Published October 16, 2014 · Updated October 27, 2014 This summer we did a series of “Then and Now” posters for Multnomah businesses. The posters features a vintage image of the building housing the...

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Was This Your Fort?

 By Tim Lyman – July 29, 2014 We don’t know the date of this photo, our source is a negative copied from the original photo. Judging by the boy’s shoes, it’s probably the 1920s...

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Multnomah School Cornerstone

By Tim Lyman – Published April 24, 2014 With the coming of the Oregon Electric Railway in 1908, people began realizing the area’s potential as a future center for the southwest area. Multnomah Children...

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Craig’s Auto Court

By Tim Lyman – Published March 13, 2014 Craig’s Auto Court operated at 9449 SW Barbur Boulevard from 1937 to 1943, when it became the Ara Vista Motel. A Wendy’s occupies the site today....

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Multnomah Bank

By Tim Lyman – Published March 5, 2014 After the Multnomah Commercial & Savings Bank closed in December 1934 the merchants and people in this area had to either go to Beaverton or Tigard...

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Weatherly’s Grocery

By Tim Lyman – Published February 27, 2014 From an article written by Lowell Swanson, and published in the May, 1999 Multnomah Historical Association newsletter. Floyd Weatherly started out with the Lovejoy Company Store...

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Multnomah Dairy Farm

By Tim Lyman – Published February 12, 2014 The Multnonah Dairy Farm was located at the east end of present Gabriel Park. You can see another view of the farm, and the future park,...

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The Red Electric Wreck

By Tim Lyman – Published February 3, 2014 · Updated February 3, 2014 Have you ever wondered about that wide strip of land to the East of Bertha Boulevard, between Bertha and the rear fences of...

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Mystery Solved

By Tim Lyman – Published January 27, 2014 · Updated February 2, 2014 Last week we asked readers if they could identify the location and orientation of this photograph, and any buildings in the photo. We didn’t...