Gig Harbor Now and Then | Many of you guessed it: Fitzgerald Ford was our Location of Mystery
Apr 06, 2026Fitzgerald Ford, Fred Meyer, and a discussion of double-clutching are among the topics of this week’s column.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Our first Historical Location of Mystery
Mar 23, 2026Can you guess where this photo was taken in the late 1970s or early 1980s?
Gig Harbor Now and Then | An explosive answer to our Item of Mystery question
Mar 09, 2026Our second Item of Mystery is neither an ancient pooper scooper nor a giraffe shoe horn. Here’s what it is.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | A new Item of Mystery
Feb 20, 2026It’s obviously a tool of some sort. It’s equally obvious that it is homemade. But what IS the Item of Mystery?
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Clay Company, Part 3
Feb 09, 2026The Gasloli and Johnsoni families lived in Mexico after leaving Gig Harbor, briefly crossing paths with Pancho Villa along the way.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The Gig Harbor Clay Company, Part 2
Jan 25, 2026The Gig Harbor Clay Company never could produce high-quality brick, leading to a business failure and a family schism.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The Gig Harbor brickyard
Jan 12, 2026Albert Jonsoni and Luigi Gasloli came to America from South Africa (with a few stops along the way) in the early 20th century and later founded a brickyard in Gig Harbor.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The big tree the Meyers did fall
Dec 29, 2025The story of how a group of friends cut down a very big tree in 1982, in annoying rhyming verse.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Little House in the Hayfield
Dec 15, 2025Fighting through multiple misspelled names and inaccurate dates, Greg Spadoni tracked the history of this distinctive house off Point Fosdick Drive.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Dial M for muddled
Dec 01, 2025If you had an emergency in the pre-911 era, all you had to do was call one of several multi-digit phone numbers depending on what service you needed and what jurisdiction you were in. And the numbers changed routinely.