Search Results for: Greg Spadoni

Gig Harbor Now and Then | Little House in the Hayfield

Dec 15, 2025

Fighting 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 | A glimpse of Gig Harbor in the 1970s

Jun 16, 2025

Greg Spadoni compares scenes from “Hit,” the movie filmed in Gig Harbor, with current-day photos of the same locations.

Behind the Finds | Every picture has a story

Mar 24, 2025

In 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, 2025

None 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, 2024

Lush 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, 2025

Do 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, 2025

If 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, 2025

A 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, 2025

Gustav 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, 2025

When was the first aeroplane built on the Peninsula, and by whom?