Mary Schamehorn

The first photo I am sharing this week came out of the March 1925 special advertising section in Western World and tells the story of how Capps Motor Company began. "Two years ago, C.Y. Lowe took his family on a trip that took them into Canada and over a goodly portion of the country to the north. They were gone about a month and took in whatever offered an opportunity for learning about the habits of tourists and the ways of folks who go about the country on rubber wheels.

The front page of the Aug. 21, 1925, Western World carried the headline: "Air Service to Portland."

I like to think of this first picture of Sunset Motel as where it all started, with this being the first building of what is now the premier motel complex

The first photo, which appeared in the Western World in September of 1957, got picked up by the United Press, and the woman featured, Mabel Howard, ended up getting correspondence

Sometime in the 1960s, Western World ran an old picture and story of what Bandon looked like before the Fire.

The three photos that I am sharing this week represent stories that I found on the front page of a 72-year-old Western World from Sept. 20, 1951. The paper was

The first story I am sharing this week came out of the July 13, 1922, Western World and tells of plans for the old high school building (first picture), which was situated atop Coast Guard Hill, and built in the late 1800s.

One of the longest standing buildings which survived the 1936 Bandon Fire was the old gymnasium in East Bandon, which doubled as the grade school for nearly three years before

An article in a January 1924 Western World told the story of Bandon's milk condensery, which was located on the dock in the building which later became the Moore Mill

The first photo I am sharing was taken in 1966 when long-time Bandon resident Robert "Bob" Fisher received a Coast Guard citation for bravery. On Oct. 1, 1962, Fisher assisted