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Byrom Elementary School Since 1979
Bridgeport Elementary School Since 1982
Deer Creek Elementary School Since 1997
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By SAUNDRA SORENSON
Pamplin Media Group
A
NewMexico developer once
brought the Beatles to Tualatin
— if only briefly.
In the early 1960s, Harry
Driver was a man on the hunt for a
prime new piece of real es-
tate. According to Arne Ny-
berg, Driver had his “Eure-
ka!” moment while on a
kind of prospector’s jour-
ney between the Mexico
and Canadian borders.
“When he came down
the hill, he saw the proper-
ty where Nyberg Woods is
now,” Nyberg said.
Driver set his cap to
the property, but it took
some convincing for Ny-
berg’s parents to even
lease it.
Driver built a Ramada Inn on the site.
The Ramada Corporation built another
franchise in downtown Portland. On
principal, Harry and his wife Althea took
a loan out and went independent, renam-
ing the hotel the Sweetbrier Inn.
Then, in the summer of 1965, the Bea-
tles came through on their American
tour, appearing at the still-new Veterans
Memorial Coliseum to play two shows
on Aug. 22, 1965.
Offstage, the Fab Four (who came and
went from the airport at Troutdale to
avoid crowds) made the suburban flight,
choosing to crash in Tualatin.
They wanted the Driver
suite.
“What the Beatles
were looking for, instead
of a standard room, they
had a suite,” said Nyberg.
“It was a kitchen with
two rooms. That way,
they didn’t have to come
out. And because it was 12
miles out of town, it was
really high-security.”
This was, after all, the
height of Beatlemania.
The grand-floor accom-
modations also offered a
fence around the perimeter.
“Once they had them in, with security,
very few people saw them,” Nyberg said.
“It was a nice space with a Japanese gar-
den outside, kind of in the corner.”
“It was easy to sneak people in and
out,” Nyberg added.
A brush with the British invasion