Lake Oswego Lifestyle Magazine - April 2022

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FITNESS SPOTLIGHT: Orange Theory

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: PS Dental

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: The Perfect Piece SPRING GARDENING TIPS SEASONAL: Easter Features LAKE OSWEGO LIBRARY EVENT FASHION FEATURE: Beautiful Oregon and Friends BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Ceramicafe BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Granite Transformations

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The Perfect Piece:

From Fine Art Show Artists to Gallery Owners

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tarting out as show artists, Tina Hospers and her husband John Koster began their art journey and business, Cutting Edge Wood Creations, by traveling across the country displaying their 3D shadow boxes at Fine Art Shows. After years of traveling, Tina and John began looking for a way to stay closer to home and their animals.

So in the fall of 2021 they decided to open a fine art gallery in Lake Oswego, representing work from many of the unique artists they discovered during their travels cross country.

“We hope to bring new ideas and inspiration to Lake Oswego and surrounding areas,” Hospers said. The gallery not only has work from national artists but work from local artists as well, including pieces of their own, making the total artists represented in the gallery well over 40, with more submissions weekly. The gallery is filled with work from juried fine painters, ceramicists, glass artists, jewelers and mixed media artists. “We have something for everyone with all price points because we believe art should be accessible to all,” Hospers said.

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Cutting Edge Wood Creations - Deer in Birch Forest The gallery offers online purchasing from the comfort of your home at theperfectpiecegallery.com, or stop in at 1179 McVey Ave. in Lake Oswego. Give them a call at 503.850.4040.

Lumera Regenerative Medicine

A Healing & Healthy Well-Being Hormone Replacement, EMsculpt neo & More State-of-the-Art Treatments By Barbara Sherman

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he Proverbial Fountain of Youth Has Landed In Tualatin. In June 2020, Dr. Roberta Huang opened Lumera Regenerative Medicine, which focuses on hormone imbalance in the body that can cause fatigue, weight gain, mood changes, and low libido.

They offer skincare, including micro-needling with PRP (platelet-rich plasma) that stimulates collagen production, laser treatments, Botox and fillers, biologique recherche™ facial treatments, Emsculpt Neo™ treatment, and treatments for sexual wellness.

After 20+ years as an obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr. Huang grew frustrated with 15-minute patient visits. “In short visits, you just can’t cover everything,” she said. “People like having extra time to talk about deeper issues. This is our opportunity to do a deeper dive.”

Which led to her founding Lumera Regenerative Medicine. “I actually started with sexual enhancement and then fell into the hormone side of medicine. A lot of people don’t realize that there are many options available to help with sexual issues. That’s how we hope to brand ourselves. And hormones are especially helpful with menopause and peri-menopause.”

Dr. Huang is one of two providers in Oregon who use the “diVa™ laser” that rejuvenates the vagina and helps with incontinence, vaginal laxity and lubrication, and she has an Emsella™ chair that uses magnetic energy to exercise and strengthen the pelvic floor to help with sexual arousal and incontinence.

Dr. Roberta Huang MD, FACOG

Our team of medical specialists and certified Aestheticians have years of experience. They have been trained in the latest technology specifically to help our patients get the results they want.

Another technique to foster more sexual sensitivity involves drawing blood and spinning it in a centrifuge to produce PRP that is reinjected into sexual organs. Wherever PRP is injected into the body, the body starts healing that area. “We call it the P-Shot™ for men and O-Shot™ for women, and there is minimal discomfort,” Dr. Huang said. “It works, but insurance doesn’t pay for it. The beauty of these things is that they are minimally invasive and don’t require surgery.”

Another technique places pellets under the skin that slowly release hormones over four months for women and over five months for men. Postmenopausal women who have not had breast cancer receive a mixture of estrogen and testosterone that “can really help through those rough years,” Dr. Huang said. “I have seen women in their 60s and 70s who are still having hot flashes.”

According to Dr. Huang, healing and healthy well-being start at home. She said, “The pillars of well-being are a good diet, exercise, and getting enough sleep, plus having a healthy psyche that includes good social interaction.

Outside of medicine and true to her word about well-being, she enjoys gardening, painting, listening to and playing music, preparing memorable meals for family and friends, and enjoying the splendor of the Pacific Northwest outdoors with her family.

Lumera Regenerative Medicine is located at 6464 SW Borland Road, Suite C3, in Tualatin. For more information, visit lumeramedical.com or call 503-852-9680.

FITNESS SPOTLIGHT

We Have a Heart:

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ow else can you prove you’re improving? Think of your heart rate monitor as your built-in coach, telling you when you need to push, or when you should scale back and recover.

The wearables are part of the Orangetheory trifecta of science, coaching and technology. You need each of those to get you in the best physical, mental and emotional health.

Orangetheory embraced this technology early on. Heart rate monitors are at the heart of our workouts; training based on optimal heart rate zones is the very essence of what sets us apart. Identifying and staying in those optimal zones is integral to the workout.

Orangetheory wants you to understand the science and to love your coach, but that third side of the triangle — technology — will let you know what your body needs.

You might need to pump up your workout or you might need to ease up. Maybe you’ve hit a plateau. It’s the data from your heart rate monitor that equips the coach to help you over the hurdle.

With Orangetheory’s heart rate monitors you can track your progress in real time — every calorie burned, every Splat Point gained, every heartbeat counted, every second spent in every color zone. Plus, all that info is displayed on a tablet set right in front of you whether you are on the treadmill, the floor, or the rower. “What you do not measure, you cannot achieve,” Ellen Latham, Orangetheory’s founder, says quite often.

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Spring

Gardening Tips

By Donovan Darling, Staff Writer

Get to Know Your Garden

Is it south-facing or north-facing? Knowing where the sun hits the ground will help you decide what to grow where. It’s also worth knowing what soil type you have. Take a look at what’s growing. Doing a soil test will also help you know your soil, and therefore what plants you can grow.

Plan Your Garden

Plan what to grow where, rather than getting carried away at the garden center and ending up with too many random plants that neither look good together nor suit your growing conditions. Planning also enables you to use color and structure wisely, which will help you create a garden that looks great throughout the year.

Learn How to Plant

Proper planting will ensure good growth and longevity. Make sure you weed and prepare the soil before planting, and add mulch or fertilizer where necessary. If you’re unsure how to plant something, look online for instructions or check the nursery tag.

Feed and Water Regularly

Proper watering is the difference between life and death. As a general rule, water the root ball rather than the leaves, as the roots absorb the water.

Soaking the root ball every week is better than watering a little bit every day. Feeding is also important. Generally you should feed every two weeks during spring and summer, and feed more if growing in containers.

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Watch Out for Pests

Most garden pests don’t do much harm and can be left alone, as there are plenty of natural predators that will keep them in check. However, sometimes pests can become an infestation and you need to act. Keeping an eye out for pests in excess like aphids, slugs and snails will help keep your plants safe and save you a lot of heartache.

Make Your Own Compost

Composting kitchen and garden waste is good for the environment, wildlife, your wallet, and also your garden. Let the waste break down (usually for months) and then use it when planting or as a mulch around the base of plants in your garden and veg patch. There are also many ways to compost, so look online for ideas that work for you.

Be Kind to Wildlife

You may see wildlife as the enemy to gardening. But wildlife can be useful in the garden, too. Birds eat a variety of garden pests like slugs and snails, aphids and caterpillars.

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r. Parisa Sepehri has been practicing dentistry for over 25 years, and she has a true passion for making people’s lives better.

Whether it’s by providing you with a beautiful smile, eliminating your pain, helping you to breathe easier at night, or diagnosing sleep apnea (particularly in children), her holistic approach allows her to make genuinely meaningful and significant improvements to your overall health. Her continued postdoctoral training at the nationally-recognized Spear Education Center in Arizona, combined with her tenured teaching position at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), has provided her with a superior knowledge base with which to tackle, and specialize in, more complex cases where esthetics, function, and physiology are all important factors.

Customer service and patient comfort are, of course, top priorities.

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is customized to each individual’s specific needs, and you will always be educated on every available option in order to make informed decisions.

As we are all acutely aware, technology advances these days at an ever-increasingly rapid rate. Nowhere is that more noticeable than in medicine. Having access to the latest-and-greatest technology means being able to receive all the most current and cutting-edge treatments. Dr. Sepehri prides herself on leading the charge on that front.

She is particularly excited to own a CEREC Machine which uniquely allows her to produce same day crowns! Other advanced systems include her Velscope, Soft Tissue Laser, CariVu, Cone Beam 3D Imager, and Digital X-Ray machine.

“There is so much more to good dentistry than just taking care of patients’ teeth and gums!” Dr. Sepehri advised. Her comprehensive examinations can detect a host of other complications most dentists don’t necessarily look for (such as jaw development and sleep apnea, which can be causes of ADHD and asthma, especially in children).

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By Dennis McNabb, Contributing Writer

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rt is one of our most culturally relevant pursuits, and one of our sincerest forms of expression. It enhances our lives and provides depth and richness to what might otherwise be a colorless existence. The artist’s work is crucial to this equation, as are those who appreciate and purchase the work, as well as the gallerists and curators who provide and display it for us all to enjoy.

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With that in mind, we are pleased to welcome the Lawrence Gallery to Lake Oswego! While this location just opened in November 2021, the Lawrence family has long represented local artists in their McMinnville area location, and in their galleries formerly located in Portland and at Salishan on the Oregon Coast. Gary and Carole Lawrence started the art gallery in 1977.

In 2018, their son Bradley and his wife Heidi purchased the business and accepted the passing of the torch. Relocating to Lake Oswego was first on their list of priorities.

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Bradley also purchased the original gallery location outside of McMinnville, which is temporarily closed for redevelopment, but is planned to reopen later this year as an art/ wine/food destination. In the meantime, the Lawrences are focused on ensuring that this beautiful new Lake Oswego locale adds to the selection of artwork and the quality of life in our local community.

Owners, Bradley & Heidi Lawrence

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I had the pleasure of meeting both Brad and Heidi, and you won’t find two more earnest, genuine, and passionate people. Their sincere desire to help Northwest artists make a living from their art was inspiring. They represent 65-75 high quality local artists, many of them regionally, nationally, and even internationally known, and many of whom the gallery has represented since the early 80s. It is their dedication to these artists, to their clientele who view and purchase the pieces, and to the

Northwest art industry as a whole, which has earned the Lawrence family such an excellent reputation.

Their goal is to present brilliant appealing artwork with a positive message. They prefer to represent artists who focus on the beauty and the good that exists in our world, of which there is an abundance! And their artists work in a wide array of media types. The gallery currently shows paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, sculptures in cast bronze, welded bronze, stainless steel, hammered copper, carved wood and stone, and both hand blown and fused glass, as well as fine art jewelry. They also have a fantastic selection of original and authenticated Salvador Dali etchings, framed and unframed, with each one hand colored, from the Christine Argillet Collection!

The artworks in Lawrence Gallery are primarily one-of-a-kind originals produced by inspired artists who seek to inspire others.

In full transparency, prices are posted with every piece, and everything is always current on the gallery website. Clients are

encouraged to ask questions and explore the collection in order to better determine what is right for them, and how they may choose to enrich their lives with original art. The gallery also offers 0% financing for 10 months on any purchases of $1,000 or higher.

Georgia Gerber -Dancing Bunnies Cast Bronze

Bradley and Heidi are incredibly grateful to the entire community, including their clients, the Arts Council of Lake Oswego, and the Chamber of Commerce for their warm welcome, and they look forward to being a good long term partner and participant in the Lake Oswego art scene. In April, they are excited to begin hosting “2nd Saturday” events featuring artist demonstrations, wine and prepackaged nibbles, right after the Lake Oswego Farmer’s Market at 2:00 PM on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Come enjoy the festivities and be inspired!

The Lawrence Gallery, your local “Joy Brokers!” Located at 540 N. State Street in Lake Oswego. Check them out online at lawrencegallery.com or on Instagram at @LawrenceGallery.

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AESTHETIC MEDICINE

By Dennis McNabb, Contributing Writer Photos by Kim Elliott

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very year there are plenty of aesthetic procedures that aren’t so noticeable, the ones that make us green with envy, the ones that make people look radiant and ageless. And according to Shana LaMarsh, those are the procedures that really represent what the industry is all about. Shana is the CEO of Aesthetic Medicine Physicians & Surgeons here in Lake Oswego, and in her view, it’s not about appearing to be 20 when you’re 50, but about looking like the healthiest, most youthful version of yourself at any age. Their goal is to expose, maintain, and enhance the client’s inherent natural beauty. Such transformations, although noticeable, should be subtle.

Even though aging is inevitable because of hormone changes, child birth and menopause, there are ways of slowing the process, and at Aesthetic Medicine they are extremely adept with all of these methods. There are even some ways to “reverse” aging to some extent, but Shana treads carefully with her clients heading down that path. She is adamant about being completely open, honest, and transparent about every aspect of every procedure, and what the client should expect. Educating her clients and setting realistic expectations for them is an imperative.

Shana has worked tirelessly to ensure that they remain at the cutting edge of the industry (pun intended); that they have all the best equipment, the most highly-trained technicians and doctors, and the ability to offer the widest array of treatment options available in the local market. That said, according to Shana, when anyone in their industry is doing their best work, nobody should notice! It’s ironic, but true. You should look younger, healthier, your skin more vibrant and less wrinkled, but you should not appear “doctored.” It should not be obvious that you had anything done. And therein lies the art!

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Aesthetic Medicine Physicians & Surgeons was founded by Dr. Darm 27 years ago. The office actually started out in Lake Owego, but then moved to Tigard for a time and has now returned to their hometown. Shana has worked in the industry (and with Dr. Darm specifically) for over 10 years now and has additional years of experience working in oncology. Although she initially worked for Dr. Darm years ago, she returned to AM in her current role in 2019, and she couldn’t be happier to be back!

Historically, women have been our main clientele but it is now more widely accepted for men. The staff are well-trained and highly professional— especially when it comes to understanding the difficulties women face regarding the aging process, and how sensitive they might be about coming in. Youth and beauty are such highly-coveted commodities in our culture, and there is a significant amount of anxiety over maintaining both.

Simultaneously, many women have little to no support.

This is a locally owned and operated patient-driven business, where the team truly cares about their customers, as well as the community at large. Here at Aesthetic Medicine, Shana and her team have carefully fostered a positive, collaborative, and supportive environment; one where anyone can feel comfortable and no judgments will ever be made. Treat yourself to the most relaxing, rejuvenating, and age-defying experience of your life!

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Zootopia (2016) - PG

Not an Easter movie, but it’s about a rabbit, so close enough.

From elephants to mice, the metropolis of Zootopia is a melting pot where various animals live and thrive. When Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) becomes the first bunny on the Zootopia Police, she realizes how hard it is to bring order to a city of such chaos, especially when you feel so small. Determined to prove herself, Judy leaps at the chance to solve a mysterious case. She’s forced to work with a wily and sneaky fox, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), who makes her job impossible. But eventually the two discover, as a small bunny who was once bullied, and a fox who was treated as a thief before he even knew the word, they have more in common than they think!

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

(1971) - TV-G

This 1971 stop motion animated TV special was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and was based on the 1957 novel The Easter Bunny That Overslept. In this fun and lighthearted flick, Peter Cottontail is a young Easter Bunny who lives in April Valley where all the other Easter bunnies live and work, making Easter candy, sewing bonnets, and decorating and delivering Easter eggs. Colonel Wellington B. Bunny is retiring as Chief Easter Bunny, and Peter and an evil bunny named January Q. Irontail are both vying for the job. But Irontail, voiced by Vincent Price!, of course wants to ruin Easter!

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Easter Parade (1948) - G

An Oscarwinning smash musical from the Golden Age of Hollywood, Easter Parade stars Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in this perfect film of nostalgia and escapism. When released it grossed six million dollars, and although six million sounds petty these days, the average movie ticket was 37 cents in 1948! When a Broadway star and a chorus girl fall in love, it culminates with a proposal that happens during the Easter Parade. After his first dance partner leaves, Don (Astaire) chooses a young and naive chorus girl, Hannah (Garland) as his protege. But it turns out she’s incredibly klutzy and confuses her left from her right. Funny, cute, and magically musical, Easter Parade holds up at 74 years old!

Willy Wonka (1971) - G

Probably Gene Wilder’s best movie, and not an Easter movie, but the definitive movie about candy! Willy Wonka, after years of seclusion, hides a handful of golden tickets in random chocolate bars around the world, and if found, children will be given a tour of the famed chocolate factory. Of course, Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe are the only good people in a crowd of selfish brats and classless parents, as the group gets smaller by one after each tour stop and its ensuing lesson and misadventure. Weird, fun, and pure classic cinema.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE LIBRARY? SUSAN GLOSSER PRESENTATION: AS AMERICAN AS CHOP SUEY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 7:00 PM

This talk explores the experiences of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans through the lens of Chinese cuisine. Prof. Glosser will examine: Chinese restaurants as one strategy for finding a niche in the US, the chop suey craze of the early 20th century, cookbooks written for non-Chinese people, and the international developments of the 20th century that changed white American’s perspectives on China and Chinese Americans.

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Mayor Joe Buck and friends will lead cyclists through Lake Oswego with stops at Iron Mountain Park to learn about Lake Oswego’s early history as a mining town and at Babica Hen for a snack! Plan two hours for this family friendly event.

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t is important to know what this Springtime Holiday is really about: “THE SEASON OF RENEWAL”.

This religious day marks rebirth in many different ways, whether you celebrate the religious origins of the holiday or not, after long winter days we finally see the hopeful bloom of

Spring Flowers. It is the season of renewal. It’s a fresh beginning after two long years of COVID. The great gifts of Easter are Love and Hope. Let’s grab a basket for Easter egg hunting while celebrating with candies and snapping photos of you and your family to keep the memorable moments.

Submit your Easter photos to win a Grand Prize Send photos to kerryyu@mac.com Snap you or your family photo(s) with a camera or phone. Each person can submit 1-3 photos. Deadline of submitting photos is April 25th, 2022.

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Easter is about rebirth, renewal, and fertility. This is evident in symbols like the Easter bunny and Easter eggs, which eventually led to chocolate eggs, marshmallow Peeps, and the second best-selling candy holiday in America! Let’s take a quick look at how Easter has changed over the years.

Easter Bunny

According to legend, the Easter bunny first came to 1700s America with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and brought along their tradition of an egg-laying rabbit called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Children made outdoor nests so this curious creature could lay its colored eggs. Eventually, the tradition spread across the country, and the fabled hare’s Easter morning goodies would eventually include chocolate, candy, and gifts, while colorful baskets would replace the nests. Much like milk and cookies left out for Santa, children would often leave out carrots in case the Easter bunny got hungry from all his hopping!

Easter Eggs

From a Christian perspective, eggs were handed out during Easter service in early Orthodox churches, with the hard shell representing the sealed tomb and the cracking of the egg representing the resurrection. One explanation is that eggs used to be forbidden during Lent, so Christians would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration. The origin of dyeing Easter eggs is less clear, beginning anywhere from 13th century Europe or all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia. It’s rumored the early Christians of Mesopotamia dyed eggs using red to represent the blood shed on the cross. Later, missionaries may have painted biblical scenes on eggs and used them to explain the story of Easter to children.

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Easter Candy

Fast forward to the 19th century, when European chocolatiers began making chocolate eggs to celebrate Easter.

Nowadays, Easter is the second best-selling candy holiday in America after Halloween. The largest Easter egg ever made was over 25 feet high and weighed over 8,000 pounds, made from chocolate and marshmallow, and supported by an internal steel frame. Another egg-shaped candy is the jelly bean, first popular for Easter back in the 1930s. Over 16 billion jelly beans are made in the U.S. each year for Easter. Over the last decade, the marshmallow Peep has been the best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy. Created in the 1950s, the original Peeps were handmade, yellow marshmallow chicks, and other flavors and shapes were introduced later, including chocolate mousse bunnies! info from history.com

RECIPE

Lemon Blueberry Cake This moist blueberry lemon cake contains three lemon cake layers with blueberries and is frosted with a refreshing whipping cream and cream cheese frosting, which again has blueberries and lemons.

INGREDIENTS

CAKE 1 (16.25 ounce) package white cake mix 1 ¼ cups water 3 egg whites 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 teaspoons lemon extract

FROSTING 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened ¾ cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract FILLING 1/3 cup blueberry pie filling

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8-inch pans.

2. Beat cake mix, water, egg whites, vegetable oil, and lemon extract together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until batter is well combined, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.

4. Beat cream in a chilled bowl using an electric mixer until soft peaks are almost forming into stiff peaks; place bowl in refrigerator.

5. Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture.

6. Place 1 cake on a plate; top with blueberry pie filling. Place second cake atop blueberry filling. Generously frost cake with whipped cream cheese frosting.

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or the multitude of travelers crossing the Interstate Bridge between Oregon and Washington, Jantzen Beach is simply a vast spread of shopping centers, restaurants, and hotels clustered on Hayden Island as you zoom past. Many will have a vague notion of the area being associated with the Jantzen brand of swimwear, but with each passing year the memories of the iconic Jantzen Beach Amusement Park dwindle into obscurity. Back in the day, hailed as the “Coney Island of the West,” Hayden Island was once home to the largest amusement park in the nation—a massive park encompassing 123 acres that was patronized by over 30 million people during its 42 years of operation.

It all began in 1927 when William A. Logus and Leo F. Smith purchased forty acres on Hayden Island from the Portland Electric Power Company.

Shortly thereafter, Logus and Smith launched the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park, named after Carl Jantzen of swimwear fame; along with a number of Jantzen executives and several prominent members of the community, Carl 34 • LAKE OSWEGO LIFE/STYLE • APRIL/MAY 2022

Jantzen underwrote the entire $500,000 project.

Jantzen and his fellow investors envisioned the park as a showcase to promote swimming as a public activity, which later included the company’s sponsorship of national “Learn to Swim” weeks throughout the 1940s and ‘50s. With swimming as a primary focus of the park, four gigantic swimming pools were constructed as well as a natatorium (an indoor swimming facility).

The Jantzen Beach Amusement Park officially opened on May 26, 1928. In addition to the swimming pools, the park also featured a number of popular rides including the Big Dipper Roller Coaster and a custom-made carousel.

Constructed by C.W. Parker, the “American Amusement King,” the carousel was hand-crafted in 1921 and first operated at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. After surviving a fire, the carousel was later shipped to Portland where it became a highlight attraction at Jantzen Beach. Of the various rides created by Parker, only the carousel survives

today. It resides in the custodianship of Restore Oregon, an organization with plans to reassemble and install the carousel in a permanent new home that will “serve as a new attraction for our region.” On a spooky note, the carousel was for years the source of ghost stories. A number of youngsters, as well as maintenance workers, claimed to have witnessed ghostly children on or about the ride.

The Big Dipper Roller Coaster, designed by Carl Phare, took center stage as the featured attraction of the park.

The “Dipper,” a gigantic amusement construction, boasted to be the largest roller coaster west of Chicago, traveling 3800 feet per minute with 14 dips, 5 of them in excess of 35 feet, and the steepest dip which plunged riders 70 feet straight down. For the more faint of heart, the park offered a Kiddy Dipper roller coaster, and included arcade games and picnic grounds.

One of the biggest draws of the park was the Golden Canopy Ballroom, which became Portland’s premier dancehall during the 1930s and ‘40s.

In 1942, Clara Shepard of the Spectator newspaper wrote: “If a young man about town says dancin’ to a girl, he might as well say Jantzen Beach at the same time…for they are synonymous as far as she is concerned. The Golden Canopy Ballroom features the sweetest swing in the country every night of the park’s season, with a parade of big name dance bands moving across its board…” Shepard’s description was no exaggeration. World famous musicians such as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong performed at Jantzen Beach to the delight of thousands who flocked to the park for unforgettable nights of top shelf entertainment.

By the late 1940s, however, Jantzen Beach was in decline.

Vanport, a town created during World War II to house workers at the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver (hence the name Vanport), was located at today’s Delta Park area and provided one of Jantzen Beach’s primary revenue sources. As the second largest city in Oregon at the time (by population), the residents of Vanport frequented Jantzen Beach for its wide variety of entertainment right in their own “backyard.” After the Vanport Flood of 1948, which effectively destroyed the majority of the town, and the

decline in population after the war, this important revenue stream dried up for the once thriving park.

Changes in the society at large also contributed to the decline of Jantzen Beach. While television rose to prominence as America’s go-to entertainment, people frequently opted to stay home rather than venture out during their leisure time.

When they did venture out, the boundless freedom of the automobile—now a staple of American society—offered endless opportunities for recreational activities. The allure of the traditional amusement park had lost its luster.

In 1960, a fire broke out in the Tunnel of Love, resulting in its destruction as well as that of the Fun House and the Dutch Mill. In the face of incidents and declining attendance, the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park closed its doors after Labor Day weekend in 1970. Following the closure of the amusement park, Jantzen Beach Center, a large shopping complex, eventually arose, and for some years housed the historic C.W. Parker carousel, which may operate again one day should Restore Oregon succeed in constructing a new home for it. The pumping system for the swimming pools of the old amusement park are still in use today, providing drinking water for residents of the Hayden Island area. And wooden remnants of the Big Dipper Roller Coaster live on at Ken’s Artisan Pizza on S.E. 28th St. in Portland, where they have been repurposed as tables, as well as the bar itself.

So the next time you’re caught in traffic on I-5 near Jantzen Beach, allow yourself to daydream a little about the “Coney Island of the West,” that famous amusement park on the Columbia from days gone by that brought joy to millions, and memories to last a lifetime, for those fortunate enough to share in the experience.

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CERAMICAFE ART LOUNGE NW Written By Dennis McNabb, Contributing Writer

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depending on your skill and comfort levels, they can assist as much or as little as needed—and they offer stencils, templates, transfers, and more.

Family owned and operated since the business was founded back in 2002, Ceramicafe is the premier ceramic studio in the Northwest. Boasting the largest selection of paintable pottery available in the region (at any given time between 500-700 pieces), and turn-around times of just 3-5 days, Krista Courtney and her team of creative ceramic experts have perfected every step of the process.

It’s no wonder then that the business has flourished, and they are incredibly excited to announce they have just opened a brand new location (their third) right here at 252 B Avenue in Lake Oswego!

I had the pleasure of speaking with Krista, and it was her genuine warmth and passion for what she does that truly resonated throughout the interview. This is not a “job” for her, and in this industry that’s what makes the difference. There are multiple options available for those interested in doing these kinds of craft events, but there is only one Krista Courtney! To her, this is all about the experience, and Krista’s whole team prides themselves on their customer service. They “engage” with clients, and 36 • LAKE OSWEGO LIFE/STYLE • APRIL/MAY 2022

This is a walk-in studio, so no appointments are necessary (unless you have a group of six or more, in which case you will want to make a reservation). All paints are non-toxic and pieces are bisque. Once fired, they are all food, microwave, and dishwasher safe. Unfinished Pottery (mugs, plates, vases, etc.), Clay Imprints (for kids and pets!), and Mosaics will all be available! They provide everything you need, and there are no additional studio fees! All you have to do is show up, and be ready to have some fun!

Date Nights, Birthday Parties, Bridal Showers, Paint in Your PJ’S, Margarita Madness, Wine & Design, Ladies Night, Wizard World (Harry Potter night!); the possibilities are endless! There is no better place to enjoy time with friends and family, while simultaneously creating something beautiful and/or useful to take home!

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It was Granite Transformations’ unique process that attracted Dan to the business. Most kitchens and bathrooms are functionally sound, but over the years have just become outdated. As a result,

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