Gig Harbor Now and Then | A glimpse of Gig Harbor in the 1970s
Jun 16, 2025Greg Spadoni compares scenes from “Hit,” the movie filmed in Gig Harbor, with current-day photos of the same locations.
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Behind the Finds | Every picture has a story
Mar 24, 2025In their latest storytelling collaboration, Gig Harbor Now writers Tonya Strickland and Greg Spadoni launch a new series where they tell the stories behind old photographs sold at second hand stores.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Behind the Finds: Every picture has a story (even if I have to make one up)
Mar 24, 2025None of the stories Greg Spadoni wrote about the photos he found in a second-hand store are true. But they are funny.
Two In Tow & On The Go | Playing Nature Bingo with two new flora fans
Jul 12, 2024Lush and green or prickly and purple – Washington people LOVE their plants. Rosedale native Greg Spadoni and the kids work to identify the peninsula’s diverse array of big leaf maple, Douglas fir, wild huckleberry and more at Sehmel Homestead Park with a captivating game of Gig Harbor Nature Bingo! Follow along and download your own free Bingo card here.
Two in Tow & On The Go | Shopping for a wish
Dec 05, 2025Do the tags on the Gig Harbor Lions Club Giving Trees represent real wishes? We share our experience.
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.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Lawrence of Purdy
Nov 17, 2025A sign of history Earlier this year, Gig Harbor Now columnist Tonya Strickland and I started a series of stories titled Behind the Finds. They explore the lives of people in photographs found in random places. This entry in Gig Harbor Now and Then is so similar, it could be called Behind the Signs. There
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Meet the Swede who pioneered flight on the peninsula
Nov 03, 2025Gustav Stromer likely built the first “aeroplane” in the Gig Harbor area, though he shipped it to Tacoma before it took off.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Aeroplanes and dental drool
Oct 20, 2025When was the first aeroplane built on the Peninsula, and by whom?
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Grave matters of life, death and debt
Oct 06, 2025John Giblin’s grave isn’t lost after all. Neither is that of John Farragut (or Farrague?), but the man buried there is owed some money.
