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Some photos of downtown Silverton would be a great addition. As long as the Bandits trivia is present, perhaps the real estate office used as a bank would be a good addition? — EncMstr ( talk) 19:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
-- Samuel John Klein ( talk) 10:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I have changed the infobox image. However, the old photo is not bad, so let's not lose it: Wyvern ( talk) 17:54, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
I was in Silverton on Father's Day this year and took a number of snapshots, a few of which might be worth using in Wikipedia. I also noticed that there are a lot more murals than in years past; this struck me as very much worth mentioning in the article. The earliest that I can remember is the Four Freedoms one that's been up for years (on the Masonic Lodge at 2nd & E Main), but now it seems there are murals all over the place. I took pictures of some, Donald Pettit and Bobbie the Wonder Dog, but I don't think I'm sufficiently current with Silverton's art scene to write up anything more insightful than 'gosh, there's a lot of murals these days.' Does anyone else following this article have more information? Also yet to be added is the pet parade, which is mentioned in Bobbie's article but not Silverton's; I remember the pet parade from childhood, but can't really write on it with any authority. Wyvern ( talk) 22:28, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
That section is well out of date and had some bizarre information in it. I've partially fixed it with the help of the new American Fact Finder, getting some information from the page http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table. I'll come back to it as soon as I can; but I'm new at using that version of Fact Finder and am flying by the seat of my pants here. I've left off with the part that has the ratio of males to females. Samuel John Klein ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:57, 1 March 2012 (UTC).
Would Orville Roth be counted as a notable Silvertonian, or at least deserve a mention? He helped fund the Oregon Garden, as well as founding Roth's IGA chain of stores beginning in 1962. He passed away suddenly on Sunday, October 13 at the age of 79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.196.120.91 ( talk) 06:19, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Someone tried to blank the section for unknown reasons, so I restored it. But it seems to me this incident is being given undue weight right now in an article that should have far more other history, etc., to take up a quarter of the non-bot-produced non-list content. It's fully sourced and all but perhaps this should be pared down and put in the history section absent a separate article on the subject. Thoughts? Valfontis ( talk) 21:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
As noted above there are quite a few murals now. Here is a story describing the history and ongoing maintenance of them: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/silverton/2017/07/20/creekside-chat-silverton-murals-aesthetic-windfalls/494374001/ Someone may wish to elaborate on this for the article. Wyvern ( talk) 04:17, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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Some photos of downtown Silverton would be a great addition. As long as the Bandits trivia is present, perhaps the real estate office used as a bank would be a good addition? — EncMstr ( talk) 19:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
-- Samuel John Klein ( talk) 10:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
I have changed the infobox image. However, the old photo is not bad, so let's not lose it: Wyvern ( talk) 17:54, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
I was in Silverton on Father's Day this year and took a number of snapshots, a few of which might be worth using in Wikipedia. I also noticed that there are a lot more murals than in years past; this struck me as very much worth mentioning in the article. The earliest that I can remember is the Four Freedoms one that's been up for years (on the Masonic Lodge at 2nd & E Main), but now it seems there are murals all over the place. I took pictures of some, Donald Pettit and Bobbie the Wonder Dog, but I don't think I'm sufficiently current with Silverton's art scene to write up anything more insightful than 'gosh, there's a lot of murals these days.' Does anyone else following this article have more information? Also yet to be added is the pet parade, which is mentioned in Bobbie's article but not Silverton's; I remember the pet parade from childhood, but can't really write on it with any authority. Wyvern ( talk) 22:28, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
That section is well out of date and had some bizarre information in it. I've partially fixed it with the help of the new American Fact Finder, getting some information from the page http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table. I'll come back to it as soon as I can; but I'm new at using that version of Fact Finder and am flying by the seat of my pants here. I've left off with the part that has the ratio of males to females. Samuel John Klein ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:57, 1 March 2012 (UTC).
Would Orville Roth be counted as a notable Silvertonian, or at least deserve a mention? He helped fund the Oregon Garden, as well as founding Roth's IGA chain of stores beginning in 1962. He passed away suddenly on Sunday, October 13 at the age of 79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.196.120.91 ( talk) 06:19, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Someone tried to blank the section for unknown reasons, so I restored it. But it seems to me this incident is being given undue weight right now in an article that should have far more other history, etc., to take up a quarter of the non-bot-produced non-list content. It's fully sourced and all but perhaps this should be pared down and put in the history section absent a separate article on the subject. Thoughts? Valfontis ( talk) 21:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
As noted above there are quite a few murals now. Here is a story describing the history and ongoing maintenance of them: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/silverton/2017/07/20/creekside-chat-silverton-murals-aesthetic-windfalls/494374001/ Someone may wish to elaborate on this for the article. Wyvern ( talk) 04:17, 21 July 2017 (UTC)