This week on Your Salem Through the Years — Salem in 1908. Virginia and Jim remember the Oregon Electric Railway that made 35 trips a day between downtown Salem and Portland at a cost of 25 cents. In addition Salem had an extensive streetcar network. Join us for a look at the golden age of mass transit in Salem over a century ago.

Your Salem Through the Years

Episode 71 — Salem in 1908

Destination Salem. Learn how the City of Salem is looking after Deepwood and other cultural assets in our city, as Virginia interviews Kimberli Fitzgerald.

Destination Salem – October 18, 2012 – Virginia Interviews Kim Fitzgerald

Destination Salem. Virginia Green interviews Steve Martin - Elsinore Theatre

Destination Salem – December 20, 2012 – Virginia interviews Steve Martin

Destination Salem. Virginia Green interviews Graham Morris, Executive Director of the Salem Multicultural Institute, organizers of the World Beat Festival, the last weekend of June every year, one of Salem's most popular festivals.

Destination Salem – June 21 2012 – Virginia talks with Graham Morris

Destination Salem. Virginia interviews Roger Hull, professor emeritus at Willamette University about the Hallie Ford Museum of Art exhibit and Roger's book about sculptor Manuel Izquierdo.

Destination Salem – January 17 2013 – Virginia talks with Roger Hull

Destination Salem, sponsored by McLaran Enterprises. Virginia will reflect on the life and legacy of Mike McLaran with her guest Kyle Sexton who worked for McLaran at the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce for a decade. Virginia was a close friend of McLaran, having known him since 1972 when, as a 12 year old California student, he spent a month traveling with her in Europe. Their reunion in Salem 35 years later was a surprise and pleasure for both. McLaran was a close friend and mentor to Sexton, formerly the Director of Business Development for the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce and now a successful business consultant.

Destination Salem – April 18, 2013 – Virginia interviews Kyle Sexton about Mike McLaran

Destination Salem. Virginia will be live in the studio with the man who has done more to preserve historic buildings in downtown Salem in recent years than any other. Learn about Roger Yost and his passion to preserve our historic downtown.

Destination Salem – February 21, 2013 – Virginia Interviews Roger Yost

Destination Salem. In this episode, Virginia interviews Executive Director Karl Knudson of the Willamette Art Center about the programs and activities of the center.

Destination Salem – November 15, 2012 – Virginia Interviews Karl Knudson

Destination Salem with Virginia Green interviews Executive Director of the Salem Chamber Orchestra Noreen Murdock and her guest Conductor Nickolas Caoile.

Destination Salem September 20, 2012 – Virginia interviews Noreen Murdock

Destination Salem: Virginia talks with Deepwood Executive Director Lois Cole about the Deepwood estates.

Destination Salem July 19 2012 – Virginia interviews Lois Cole

Destination Salem. Virginia interviews Hazel Patton about historical designation, preservation issues, properties around Salem, and her own story of saving, preserving, and living in an historical home, the Barquist House.

Destination Salem May 17 2012 Virginia and Hazel Patton

This week on Your Salem Though the Years, Jim takes a walk through the "home garden" of the famous Salem landscape architects Lord and Schryver with Bobbie Dolp and Gretchen Carnaby of the Lord and Schryver Conservancy. The home garden is at their home on Mission Street which is now being acquired and preserved by the Conservancy.

Episode 72 — A Walk Through the Home Garden of Lord and Schryver

This week on Your Salem Through the Years, Jim takes a walk through the Methodist Parsonage with Keni Sturgeon, curator at the Willamette Heritage Center. Built in 1841, the Methodist Parsonage is the second oldest frame building still standing in Oregon.

Episode 70 — A Walk Through the Methodist Parsonage

This week on Your Salem Through the Years, Jim and Virginia take a look back to Salem in 1950. In 1950, post-war prosperity meant more cars and greater need for downtown parking. Because of this, in 1950 the historic Holman Building, where the Oregon Legislature met after the first Capitol building in Salem burned down, was torn down and replaced by Salem's first parking structure.

Episode 69 — Salem in 1950

This week on Your Salem Through the Years, Jim goes on a walkabout at Lee Mission Cemetery with Cemetery President Jim Momyer and local historian Elisabeth Walton Potter. Lee Mission Cemetery on D Street is one of two great historic cemeteries in Salem. It features the burial site of Jason Lee, the founder of Salem, and many other pioneer Methodist missionaries and their descendents.

Episode 68 — A Walk Through Lee Mission Cemetery

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