Why were the names of so many local pioneer families often spelled several ways in official documents? Many didn’t read or write, and many were not native English speakers.
The mostly-underwater Beach of Dreams was once part of a sawmill, then bought by a 3-year-old, who was eventually sued by her own father.
Monty’s Furniture was located (you guessed it!) at the corner of Pioneer Way and Harborview Drive in 1952.
The Key Peninsula resident and labor organizer murdered his mistress near Horseshoe Lake on Christmas Eve 1941.
Our last column noted that in the early decades of the 20th century, athletic meets between Peninsula elementary schools often included non-athletic competitions. What non-athletic contests were frequently included at inter-school sports meets? A good variety of answers were posted to the Gig Harbor Now Facebook page — especially the Nerf War — but no
The previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column asked a simple question about a newspaper article complaining about constant rule changes to the game of football: Box Office Causes New Football Rules That the football mentors change the rules each year with one — perhaps both — eyes on a lucrative box office is charged by
Yellow, aluminum-alloy stop signs were the norm before 1954.
Final, definitive proof that the editor is in no way improving these columns, which are already perfect when they are submitted.
Remembering the halcyon days when one could get lutefisk whenever one wanted in Gig Harbor.
Who knows how old these people would have turned if they hadn’t picked up a bad habit. And about that term, “would have turned …”
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