An aerial view of Garden Home, Oregon, in 1954. The photograph is facing east, and shows Oleson Road running horizontally and Garden Home Road running vertically. Garden Home School is the large, light building in the foreground with the old original school building still attached in what is now the south parking lot. The Garden Home Feed and Seed building, east of the intersection, has no roof structure. The Community Church is east of the feed store, where 71st Avenue is now. The two-story store at the intersection, variously named Upchurch, Throckmortons or the "White Store," burned in 1956. A nut orchard lies northeast of the intersection where a Thriftway grocery store would be built in 1957. This photograph was shot with a Rolleiflex camera by local resident Otto Arndt on May 4, 1954. Arndt took numerous aerial photographs of the Garden Home area on flights he chartered out of the Bernard Airport in Beaverton, all of them flown by pilot Walt Rupert. This image was digitized from a 2 1/4" negative.
Aerial photo of Forest Grove, taken approximately 1966. The photo centers on Pacific University's campus, and Married Student housing, Jefferson Hall, Marsh Hall, Walter Hall, the old gymnasium, and McCormick Hall.
Black and white aerial view of a farmhouse and an orchard, with hills in the background. A number of other farms and farmhouse can be see in the background. William G. Ide was a farmer south of Hillsboro; the 1930 Federal census lists his property as being on Grabel Road, off of Highway 219.
Black and white aerial image of Forest Grove, looking northeast. The track at Pacific University can be seen in the upper center left of the urban area.
Black and white aerial image of Forest Grove, looking south. Pacific University's track and gymnasium can be seen in the center left of the photo. The road running through the center of the image is Main Street, in Forest Grove.
Black and white aerial image of Cornelius, Oregon. The main road running from the lower center left to the upper center right is Tualatin Valley Highway or Baseline Street, and the railroad runs along the south side of the road.
Black and white aerial image of Beaverton, looking east. This appears to be downtown Beaverton, showing Farmington Road and Canyon Road or Tualatin Valley Highway.
Black and white aerial view of Hillsboro, looking north. The large square building in the lower center of the image is the Carnation factory at the south edge of town, and the Washington County courthouse can be seen a few blocks north on First Avenue. See WCMpic_015495 for a similar view, taken ten years previous.
Black and white view of Hillsboro, looking north. The Washington County Courthouse can be seen in the dark square of trees at the northwest corner of the city; identifiable by the Sequoias at the south entrance and the flagpole on the east side. The other darker square to the right and up one block is Bagley Park. See WCMpic_015500 for a similar view, ten years later.
