Commemorating the life of CW3 Helen Ng Mun Tayne
Gravestone of Helen Ng Mun Tayne taken at Salem Pioneer Cemetery in Spring 2022. A century ago, the first part of April was [...]
April 2022
February 2022
Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations
By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation…That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [...]
January 2022
Historic Marion: Salem YMCA Celebrates Centennial
This article was written by Al Jones for the November 1992 issue of Historic Marion, the Marion County Historical Society Newsletter Vol. 30, No. [...]
December 2021
A Bear-y Good Time of Year
The Cinnamon Bear Tradition at Lipman's in Salem Lipman's Advertisement in the Capital Journal Newspaper 25 November 1954. “And here’s the Cinnamon Bear!” [...]
November 2021
Mrs. J.W. Weatherford’s Hair Jewelry Business
Salem woman helped support herself making jewelry from human hair Source: 1880 Salem City Directory. I love city directories. Like phone books [...]
October 2021
Japanese American Community, 1942
On March 27, 1942, Rev. Andrew Y. Kuroda of the Salem Japanese Community Church completed a census of Japanese American Families living in Salem [...]
August 2021
Ernest B. Flake
Ernest Benjamin Flake. Willamette Heritage Center's Collections, 84.43.1.101.1 Entrepreneur E.B. Flake started a Salem Advertising Empire, Flower Shop and Pet [...]
July 2021
Wilfred C. Hagedorn’s Scrapbook
Bill Hagedorn. From Scrapbook. WHC Collections 1996.014.0001 Wilfred C. “Call Me Bill” Hagedorn Still a student at Salem High School, Bill Hagedorn [...]
Polio Vaccine Trial Comes to Salem
It has been interesting to see how the news turns to history in contextualizing current events. I get it. I find history pretty comforting [...]
May 2021
Safeway in Salem
Aerial image of South Commercial Street (c. 1955-1975). WHC Collections 2006.001.0196 - detail It all started with an unidentified aerial photograph. Squinting [...]