Tag: Loyce Martinazzi
Veteran’s Corner: Norm Parker
Although the Korean War Armistice had been signed several years earlier, tensions became frayed whenever peace talks faltered. That is what Army Second Lieutenant...
Tualatin: 95 Acres, From Ice Age to Agriculture to Industry
BY LOYCE MARTINAZZI
What I know as the Community of Tualatin is not confined by the map lines that limit its official boundaries as...
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of...
BY LOYCE MARTINAZZI
The Great Depression of 1929 to 1939 couldn’t have come at a worse time for the village of Tualatin. The sawmill...
Even Tualatin’s Fashions Evolved…
With all the interest in period dramas like Downtown Abbey, it’s fun to look back at how our community used to dress. Starting with...
Tualatin’s Jewel… The Sweek House
Almost hidden from view behind the railroad tracks and a row of trees, sits a stately Southern Colonial home along Boones Ferry Road, built...
Music was always important at Tualatin’s Winona Grange
Tualatin’s soil is rich and deep and generally well suited for farming due to the giant ice age floods that left behind topsoil from...
Tualatin’s First Farmer’s Market
George Saum Jr. poses beside his produce stand on Borland Road across the street and just east of Bridgeport School. Prices for produce were...
Who Cleared Your Land?
In 1852, young Jimmy Luster, a single man, settled on 160 acres of land in Section 2S,1W in Section 26. After his untimely death...
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