Gig Harbor Now and Then | The homestead confusion
Mar 10, 2025Even if it’s literally carved in stone, sometimes a homestead is not a homestead.
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Gig Harbor Now and Then | Gig Harbor Garage was the area’s first car dealership
Feb 24, 2025The previous Gig Harbor Now and Then column gave the answers to four questions concerning early local telephones. One question that was not asked or answered last time concerns how to cope with one of today’s internet providers on the Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas, CenturyLink. Having had multiple extensive, unwanted, unsatisfying, and unfathomably bad experiences
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The local history of telephones, cars and telephones in cars
Feb 10, 2025Cross-Narrows phone service has been available since 1907. To call a car dealer, people in those times needed only to dial ‘1’.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Tree rings reveal many mysteries
Jan 27, 2025Tree rings tell a lot about not only the life of the tree, but also some of the events that occurred on the land it grew on.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Pioneers’ names got lost in translation
Jan 13, 2025Why 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.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | The history of this beach of dreams
Jan 10, 2025The 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.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Sometimes, it seems like this is the only building in town
Dec 29, 2024Monty’s Furniture was located (you guessed it!) at the corner of Pioneer Way and Harborview Drive in 1952.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | How Leonard Bolton ended up on the naughty list
Dec 16, 2024The Key Peninsula resident and labor organizer murdered his mistress near Horseshoe Lake on Christmas Eve 1941.
Gig Harbor Now and Then | When spelling was a track and field event
Dec 02, 2024Our 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
Gig Harbor Now and Then | Our next question will have you stumped
Nov 17, 2024The 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