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1207 SE Kane • Gresham, OR 97080 • 503.666.0967
WHITE’ S COUNTRY MEATS
Serving East County for 28 Years
The Feigner Family
Founder
Bill
White
Whites Country Meats is an old-fashioned butcher shop. A place where you can purchase fresh cut meats, beef, pork & poultry.
SERVICE AND QUALITY #1
Since 1985, White’s Meats has proudly served the
butcher and game processing needs of the east
Portland area. Our customers come from:
Gresham, Troutdale, Sandy, Boring, Wood Village,
Rockwood, Fairview, Government Camp, Zig Zag,
Rhododendron, Corbet and Portland, Oregon
White’s Country Meats is locally owned and operated and has served the
Gresham area for over 28 years. With daily shipments of the best quality
meats available from all over the country, we guarantee that you won’t nd
a better value for you and your family.
Come in today, we have the area’s freshest and best quality selection of:
Steaks, Ribs, Roasts, Hams, Chops, Sausages, Jerky, Pepperoni, Poultry and
so much more. Come visit our store and see our wide selection, low prices,
and unmatched quality.
We have 9 varieties of White’s Country Sausage, freshly smoked bacon,
marinated pepper steaks and many house favorites. We have two
smokehouses that run 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
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A good working team of draft horses was
worth more than money in the bank in those
days,” she says.
At the time the highway was launched, East
Multnomah County residents thought of it as
the rich man’s road because only the wealthy
could afford automobiles. Julie Stewart,
Gresham, photo librarian for the society, found
a letter in her own family les illustrating the
point. “One of my grandfathers wrote to my
grandmother in Illinois in 1915, ‘Say, Norman
Burwell sure has a swelled head about that
model Ford of his. But I think it’s just a tin
bucket with an engine.’”
Norman Burwell turned out to be Stewart’s
other grandfather, but at the time he was just
a lucky guy whose grandma bought him a car.
But Henry Ford came along building cars
for average Joes and soon even a farmer
could enjoy a jaunt down the marvelous road.
Stewart credits the late Clarence Mershon,
East Multnomah County historian, for making
it clear: “He was the ‘Encyclopedia of the
Columbia Gorge.’ It’s a wonder his brain didn’t
explode with all the facts and information he
had crammed in there... I would sit at those
An early garage in Troutdale served travelers on the “new” Columbia River Highway – at Portland prices. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO: CLARENCE MERSHON COLLECTION
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