'MAC' FAMOUS FOR ...

'MAC' FAMOUS FOR:

 >--UFO seen/photographed May 11, 1950. The June 8, 1950, McMinnville T-R/Telephone- Register now the McMinnville N-R/News-Register, got international attention for the photos. A UFO festival is held in May in McMinnville.

 >--'Spruce Goose' of Evergreen Aviation Museum. 

>--Linfield College (became Linfield U on July 1, 2020) -- the campus of which is home of the annual summer International Pinot Noir/IPNC Celebration.

>--Linfield Wildcats football team's "The Streak."

 >--"Mac Plaid" blankets made by Norwest Fabrics, Inc., of McMinnville. (Out of business.)

 >--Summer’s Turkey Rama (started in 1960), which featured “World's Largest Turkey BBQ,” 1961-2017. McMinnville Chamber of Commerce "plans to end McMinnville’s longtime summer festival, Turkey Rama, which had taken place in July since the 1960s." - McMinnville N-R 3/21/2023. Turkey Rama, "apparently laid to rest after a once-glorious but increasingly diminished 61-year reign as McMinnville’s signature festival." - McMinnville N-R 3/25/2023

>--Twila's English Toffee, founded in McMinnville in 1992, includes toffee with hazelnuts/filberts. (Moved to Lyle, Wash., 2017.)

>--Filbert Street in McMinnville recognizes the past and current importance of filberts (a.k.a. hazelnuts) to McMinnville. They are said to be the best in the world.

>--"Walnut City" is one of McMinnville identities. The McMinnville N-R said, "Once touted ... as the future of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, walnuts enjoyed an abundant season for some decades in the first half of the 20th century." But, the 1962 Columbus Day storm blew down entire orchards. In 1972, a hard freeze killed still more. Many filbert trees were also lost due to the storm and the freeze. Walnut City (bowling) Lanes, Walnut City WineWorks, the Walnut City Music Festival, and the Walnut City Kiwanis Club.

>--Huberd's Shoe Grease Co., founded 1921. Its pine tar, beeswax and paraffin formula grease kept loggers' boots dry. Sold, it moved to Snowflake, Ariz., 2004. But, the new owner died in 2015 and the firm, with a newer owner, was saved from extinction and moved to Bennett, Colorado, in 2017.

>--Dr. Lucy Skin Care Products, founded in 2009. Dr. Lucy Pure Natural Skin Care of McMinnville, CEO is Rebecca Siegfried LMT/Licensed Massage Therapist of McMinnville. 

>--Log trucks motoring on 99W.