Black and white image of the interior of a grocery store. Cans fill the shelves, but the focus of the picture is a woman dressed as 'Aunt Jemima' to promote her ready-made pancake and buckwheat corn and wheat flour mixes. Jars of coffee grounds and pet milk fill in the end of the display. Museum records identify the location as the Fairway Grocery Store in Hillsboro.
Black and white image of the exterior of the Hillsboro Safeway store, located on 2nd and Baseline Streets. The store was built in the fall of 1940 at a cost of $16,000. Today (2012) it is the 'Mattress MegaStore.'
Black and white image of checkout lines at a grocery store. Balloons and streamers decorate the edges of the room, indicating that this image was shot while the store was still celebrating its grand opening. Many of the men in the image wear plaid jackets, and everyone has boxes or bags in which to carry their groceries home. Cash registers and Toledo scales sit at each checkout station. Museum records identify this as the Safeway store in Hillsboro.
Black and white image of the interior of a grocery store. Several people shop in the aisles while others stand at checkout counters. One man has boxes in which to carry his groceries out, while another woman in the far right of the image appears to wear a mink coat. Numerous signs posted along the wall separating the upper loft from the main store advertise products and sales within the store. Cash registers and Toledo scales sit at each checkout station. Museum records identify this as the Safeway store in Hillsboro, most likely shortly after it opened.
Black and white image of the interior of an unidentified general store, with male staff members standing in the aisle. On the ceiling, electric light bulbs are covered by domes, with long strings hanging from their switches.
Black and white image of a single-story building with a glass front and gingerbread trim on the front gable. 'J. C. Smock. General Merchandise' is lettered on the front facade, while along the side is written 'Farm Products a Specialty.' A boardwalk and a dirt road front the store. Because his store held the first post office in the area, the community was originally known as 'Smockville,' and later changed to Sherwood. This is the second building he built for his store.
Black and white image of a store with a square front. Note the garage and gas pump on one side, and the boardwalk, while the road in front of the market is dirt.
Black and white image of a two story building with a hipped roof and a covered front porch. Sign on the second floor reads H. B. Tigard General Store. A man walks across the dirt road in front of the building, and a single-car garage is visible beyond the back porch. A covered porch runs along the front of the building, with benches under the windows on either side of the main doors.
Black and white photograph of a two-story, flat-roofed building with a single-story addition sitting along a four lane highway. A sign running along the eaves of the porch reads 'Fresh Meats; Reedville Market; Vegetables.' Advertisements for Coca-cola intersperse the other printed advertising, and a neon sign standing atop the porch roof also states 'Reedville Grocery & Meats.' Another sign in front states that there is an apartment for rent, and a Mayflower Ice Cream freezer truck is parked in front of the store.
Black and white photograph of a two-story, gabled building with a single story attachment. A covered porch runs around the first floor, and a light-colored sedan is crossing in front of the store. Two railroad cars bearing large logs sit on either side of the railroad crossing in the foreground, where a dirt road crosses over the tracks.
Sepia-toned image mounted on heavy mat of a family and several other people standing on the front porch of a two-story, square fronted building that fills the right side of the image. A man and woman stand in the recessed doorway; her dress is polka-dotted and has lace edging on the collar and the caps of her sleeves. She wears a white apron. He wears a jacket and shirt, but no tie. A little girl stands between them, wearing a dark, long-sleeved dress. A dog lays on the step to the left of them. Three other men sit on benches and boxes in front of the store, two in work clothes and one in a suit with a derby-style hat perched jauntily on his head. A printed sign on the right of the building reads 'Tigardville Post Office', and a hand-lettered sign beneath it reads 'Portland 10 1/2m' with a hand pointing to the left side of the image. A two-story, cross-gabled house is visible behind the store to the left, behind a tree, and a power pole stands in front of the yard. A large lamp hangs from the far right side of the store's porch.
Sepia-toned image of a group of people on a sidewalk in front of a store. Two cars are parked along the sidewalk in the dirt road, both with closed cabs and spoked wheels and a spare tire on the end. The building is a white, square fronted building with glass display windows. A cutout of a Holstein cow stands on the sidewalk between the two entrances. Power poles stand on the right of the image, and power lines cross over in the foreground. The photo is attached to a piece of paper.
A view of multiple men and women seated on and in front of a horse and buggy at Germania Hall. Germania Hall's facade has two sign reading "Hotel" and "Germania Hall." Germania Hall was built by the Schamoni family and was the first building constructed on Main Street (sometime between 1908-1910) after the arrival of the Oregon Electric Railway in Tigard. Germania Hall was located south of the railroad tracks on the east side on Main Street. The main floor contained a restaurant and grocery store; upstairs was a dance hall and hotel rooms.
