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TIMES FACT BOOK
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Well-known
products of
Tigard include
(counter-
clockwise from
left) baseball
star Mike
Kinkade,
freestyle skier
Sammy
Carlson and
actress Kaitlin
Olson.
as East Butte. That name stuck
for 50 years, until resident
Charles F. Tigard built a gener-
al store, a meeting hall and
opened the town’s first post of-
fice, which he named Tigard-
ville after his father, Wilson Ti-
gard, one of the area’s early
founders.
The Tigardville name stuck
for years, until 1907, when a
railroad was built through
town. Railroad officials were
worried that people would con-
fuse Tigardville with nearby
Wilsonville, This was enough
of a concern that the railroad
company changed the name of
the station — the name of the
town — for a third time, to Ti-
gard.
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TOWERING TALL —
Quick,
what’s the tallest build-
ing in Washington Coun-
ty. Give up? It’s Lincoln
Tower, the 12-office complex
near Washington Square. The
six-building complex in Tigard
opened in 1981. In fact, it’s so
tall that Tualatin Valley Fire &
Rescue has used the building
for training in fighting fires in
high-rise buildings!
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STOMPING GROUND OF THE
RICH AND FAMOUS —
Ti-
gard has seen a whole
host of famous faces
come through town (and even
been home to a few). The polit-
ical elite often make Tigard a
stop on their way across the
campaign trail, including for-
mer Vice President Dan Quay-
le, who was spotted bowling at
Tigard Bowl in the early 1990s
and Vice President Dick
Cheney, who was caught shop-
ping at Kauffman Streambo-
rn’s fly fishing shop in the ear-
ly 2000s.
But that’s not the end of the
list. Peter Noone and Davey
Jones, front men of the Her-
man’s Hermits and The Mon-
kees have also been spotted in
town.
Rocker Ted Nugent once
snuck out to Tigard during a
trip to visit the Archer’s Afield,
an archery store in the lower
level portion of Tigard Plaza,
and Bruce Springsteen who
during his 1985 wedding to Juli-
anne Phillips in Lake Oswego,
reportedly snuck off to Tigard
to party with members of the
E-Street band.
Tigard’s stars
A
long with being a
“must visit” stop for
the rich and famous,
Tigard has also seen
some of its own rise to star-
dom.
1
MIKE KINKADE —
Major
League Baseball player
and Olympic gold med-
alist Mike Kinkade
graduated from Tigard High
School in 1991.
Kinkade, who played for the
Baltimore Orioles and other
teams, was a football and base-
ball star for the Tigers when
the school won the 1990 state
football championship.
He was drafted by the Mil-
waukee Brewers, but before he
could work his way through
the minor league to play for
the Brewers, he was traded to
the New York Mets in 1998.
Kinkade, an outfield/third
basemen/catcher, made his
MLB debut with the Mets in
1998 and went on to play for
the Orioles and the Los Ange-
les Dodgers.
Kinkade was a member of
the U.S. baseball team that cap-
tured gold at the 2000 Olympics
in Sydney, Australia. He moved
to Japan and played for the
Hanshin Tigers in 2004, before
coming home and playing in
the minor leagues until 2008.
2
SAMMY CARLSON —
Speaking of sports
stars, Sammy Carlson
is a freestyle skier who
graduated from Tigard High
in 2009. Carlson has per-
formed in the Winter X Games
— the Olympics of extreme
sports — and was the first ski-
er to execute a trick known as
the switch triple rodeo 1260, in
which the skier flips and turns
three times before landing.
Carlson currently lives in
Hood River and is recovering
from a knee injury he sus-
tained at the 2012 Winter X
Games.
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KAITLIN OLSON —
Ac-
tress Kaitlin Olson is
known for her role as
“Sweet Dee” Reynolds
on the FX series “It’s Always
Sunny in Philadelphia,” but
actually grew up in Tigard, be-
fore moving to Los Angeles to
study acting. Olson has had
recurring roles on “The Drew
Carey Show” and “Curb Your
Enthusiasm” before hitting it
big with “Sunny.”
Olson grew up on a small
farm (full disclosure, Olson’s
father Don Olsen is the for-
mer publisher of our sister pa-
per, the Portland Tribune)
and has said that her love of
acting came from attending
Willowbrook summer camp in
Tualatin when she was 12.
There she acted in plays and
said she knew she wanted to
become an actress from that
experience.
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