Making Apple Butter
What buildings were there before the Volkswagen and Carpet Warehouse were built? (the Starkweather farm and Thomas Ayers home. Summer's greenhouse and Allan's home.)
The old sand pit and the weighing hoppers on Georgetown Lane?
Mr. Laney and Roy Amberson owned the junk yard where Tamaqui Village now stands?
That M. C. Harton built the old stone bridges across Two Mile Creek from a stone quarry on his property?
When there was a skating rink on South Walnut and Georgetown Lane?
When old Vanport got their sewage and water? (1946-47)
That there was a butcher shop, a post office and a church in the original building bought by the firemen for their station on Jefferson Street?
That the gangster "Dillinger" was chased through Vanport by police, on his flight to Ohio?
That a "Mrs. Fox" in Vanport was a movie star?
When Mrs. Harry Girting, Sr. worked in the dry cleaning store on State Avenue? The post office was next door.
During the depression, coal was given away free by certain residents who had a coal mine in their backyard?
How the kids during the early '40s had a big swing on the huge tree at the creek in back of Van Buren Homes? This was their playground.
When Mrs. Joan McGuire made all the candy apples for the PTA fair? Mrs. Vernie Stiteler was president at the time.
When the firemen burned down the big grey house on State Avenue? Sepps lived there.
When the Gene Quigley house got stuck in the creek while it was bieng moved from the old Georgetown Lane to the new Division Lane ... ?
When Vanport proclaimed George Wildman "Man of the Year?" - he earned it!
When everybody had a "Victory Garden" in the 40's? Now we call them hobbies. Eh?
When the kids used to drop into 'ole man Reed's store' after Sunday school?
When the firemen had their bingo's in their old garage? And the women made their apple butter in the field in front of the garage over an open fire? Betcha they sure do....
Art and Catherine James spent hours waxing the new floor in the new building of the fire hall?
When Mrs. Gertrude Eller was honored as the oldest living member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the fire department?
When Beryle Miller had his gas station and his racing cars on State Ave.?