Doorbell sign in McMinnville 2024

 

VIDEO CLIP: Air show, McMinnville, Yamhill County, September 2024

Video by 'Mac News.'

Is Linfield ‘second fiddle?’

Is Linfield ‘second fiddle?’

 (Posted 8/28/2024)

September 2024 issue of CRUSH monthly arts & culture publication produced by Visit McMinnville has an article with photos about “McMinnville’s Art Alley.” Read the article by clicking on two of the photos posted here.

The article is text about with a photo of “greeting postcard-style mural for McMinnville.”

According to the article, “Each letter in ‘McMinnville’ is filled with recognizable local images – the Spruce Goose, a UFO, farmworkers, the Mack Theater, a scene from the local Lunar New Year’s celebration, Serendipity Ice Cream, Buchanan Cellars, and others.”

No mention of Linfield. I wondered, does “any others” include Linfield? I went to the alley to investigate. Photos I shot are posted here. Link to my video clip:

https://youtu.be/FXxmyV8pyMU?si=J7XnpAzqMxX1idNZ

Answer: No Linfield.

In the “old days,” McMinnville was known for Linfield, walnuts, filberts (a.k.a. hazelnuts), Turkey Rama, McMinnville Industrial Promotions, the Linfield campus you drove by en route to the Oregon coast, the Rocket Café, Alf’s Ice Cream, the Blue Moon and others.

At two corners of 99W/Baker Street & Third Street is signage with “hands” pointing to noteworthy places in McMinnville. Linfield used to be there. Not anymore.

If you’ve attended a concert with an orchestra playing, you know it takes many instruments – not to mention musicians, a director and others – to make beautiful music.

McMinnville is, in a sense, an orchestra. It takes many people, places and things making it what it is.

Is Linfield ‘second fiddle?’

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Postscript -- In case you don’t know the idiom “play second fiddle,” it means “to be less important or in a weaker position than someone else.”

Eric Lundeen: Woodsmith/Woodmeister

‘The Plastics Project’ recycling ♻️ 2/10/2024 FBC McMinnville

‘The Plastics Project’ recycling ♻️ 2/10/2024 FBC McMinnville 

  

(Next recycling event 6/15/2024)

Oath administered to newly-appointed Oregon Alien Enemy Hearing Board members including Linfield President William G. Everson (as board chairman) on Jan. 5, 1942, in Portland

PHOTO: Newly-Appointed Alien Enemy Hearing Board Sworn In – United States Attorney Carl G. Donaugh (extreme right) is administering the oath to members of the board when they assembled Monday at the federal court house. Left to right, A. E. Reames, Medford attorney and ex-United States senator; Bishop Benjamin D. Dagwell of the Episcopal diocese here; Dr. William G. Everson, president of Linfield college, McMinnville, who is chairman of the group; State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott; A.E. Clark, Portland attorney, and Donaugh. Oregonian, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1942.

DOWNTOWN McMINNVILLE: ARTISTIC WHATEVER WITH SEATING

DOWNTOWN McMINNVILLE: ARTISTIC WHATEVER WITH SEATING

When the “new” First National Bank of McMinnville (now Key Bank) at 324 NE 3rd (corner of 3rd & Davis) opened in 1964, was this back parking lot artistic whatever with seating there, too? Whether there then (1964) or added later, who designed it? (Mac News photos 1/15/2024)

 Read and see photos...

Artist Tom Hardy's 'Ancient Oaks' sculpture on Third Street, downtown McMinnville, on front of National Bank of McMinnville/Key Band

https://mac97128news.blogspot.com/2023/07/artist-tom-hardys-ancient-oaks.html

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Salem daily newspaper stories from 1964: -New Bank Opens at McMinnville, Capital Journal

-McMinnville Opens New Bank, Oregon Statesman