PlacesPages: Miscellaneous Sites in Salem, OR

I originally posted the Salem PLACES pages on my website on April 27, 2008, and last updated them on March 17, 2010.

Living in Salem, Oregon for two years, I amassed a lot of pictures of the city; so many that one page wasn't enough. I broke my Salem information into four parts. This is Part 4, featuring Miscellaneous Sites in Salem that didn’t fit in any of the other sections.

I referred to many internet resources for this project, including the Oregon State Library Photograph Collection, the City of Salem, the Salem Historic Landmarks Commission, Salem Online History, the Salem Public Library's Oregon Historic Photograph Collections, Salem Historical Quarterly, the Salem Oregon Community Guide, the Salem Heritage Network, the Salem Historic Downtown Historic District Walking Tour by Virginia at Picasa Web Albums, and American Classic Images. Other internet resources are linked throughout the pages. I also used a 1965-1966 copy of the Oregon Blue Book. Historical photographs and some graphics were photographed from interpretive displays at various locations in Salem. Most other graphics, including maps, are my own creations, though they may be based on maps from other sources.

Introduction

The items in this last section are things that I came across that I found interesting. Included here are some fairly modern Salem buildings, but most of these places are just unusual items; sometimes anachronistic traces that hint at a past long forgotten or simply unique signage that can't be found anywhere else.