17 December 1911 Advertisement in The Oregonian
Because we are such a mobile population, it seems unusual when people stay rooted for a lifetime in their communities, and particulary so when they live as adults in the homes where they grew up.
I’m doing a series of stories profiling Alamedans who live in the houses where they grew up. Here are people who have spent most of their lives under one roof.
Steve Goodman | Knowing all the nooks and crannies (click to read)
February 19, 2012 at 11:11 pm
How about the imaginary people from Alameda? (Ramona and her house on Klickitat, with statue now in Grant Park?)
Chat with Jim Brown about that wonderful old place of his across from the school on 27th.
February 19, 2012 at 11:16 pm
I grew up reading Beverly Cleary and was inspired by the friends on Klickitat Street. Check out the essay I wrote on the geography of imagination, which delves into the places Ramona and Henry lived and loved: http://alamedahistory.org/2009/05/30/the-geography-of-imagination/
D.