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This house was the home of the Junker family for many years. It remains virtually unchanged and is occupied by the Sandy Country Florist today. Casper Junker came to Sandy in 1888 for a short time, went to Portland to train in the hotel business and came back to Sandy with a wife in 1897. At that time he bought the Sandy Hotel from Von Scholley’s widow. Casper was very involved in Sandy’s history as a hotel owner, saloon owner, restaurateur, land developer and he constructed commercial and rental buildings as well.

This photo of Ludwig and Augusta Hoffmann with their 12 children was taken on the 4th of July, 1912. Aside from the removal of the awning the building remains unchanged.

This Lutheran church, built in 1902 on land donated by Caspar Junker, was the second church built in Sandy. The first church, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, was built in 1894. The

Lutheran congregation also built a parsonage in between the church and the Lutheran school. This church provided a place of worship in an otherwise tough town. In 1959 the Lutheran congregation built a new church and this one became the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. This building is one of Sandy’s most recognizable landmarks and is still in use today, but for non-sectarian purposes. Photo taken 2008.

This building was originally built as the Sandy Lutheran School in 1904. This picture was taken in 1915 and includes 36 students. The building is still in use today and currently houses Schoolhouse Natural Medicine. At one time the Sandy area had 18 grade schools! The Sandy Historical Society has photos of all of them.

Now you’ll want to pay close attention as it gets a little confusing: The building in this photo was the Sandy Hotel (the previous site) which was built by the Revenues in 1874, purchased by Percy and Blanche Shelley in the early 1900s and moved to this Proctor Blvd. location to be the Shelley family home. In 1936 Alice Scales purchased the home and turned it into the Dew Drop Inn, which was wildly successful. The restaurant/lounge had a successful 30 year run. Alice Scales lived to be 93 years old. There are stories about the Dew Drop Inn still being shared by the locals to this day.

John and Francis Revenue, built the historic Revenue Hotel in 1874. It was Sandy’s first hotel, another Revenue first, and built right at the center of activity. He also built the Revenue Store up the road a bit. In the early 1900s Percy and Blanche Shelley bought the hotel. Percy moved the hotel one block north to Proctor Boulevard. There he and his wife Blanche turned the historic hotel into their home.

In 1911 A.L. and M.A. Deaton opened Clackamas County Bank in a portion of H.S. Eddy’s real estate office. In 1912 W.A. Proctor was taken in as a stockholder. In just a few years the tiny bank was able to construct its own building. In 1918 Proctor bought controlling interest in the bank. CCB survived the Great Depression and is going strong today. It’s still run by the Proctor family and is the oldest community bank in Oregon. The CCB corporate offices are now located on Proctor Boulevard and have been since the 1950s.

Built by Baron Otto Von Scholley in 1890, the Sandy Hotel was the second hotel in Sandy and the nicest commercial building in town. The Baron died of a stroke in 1890 while the tower was being raised on the hotel. In 1897 Caspar Junker purchased the hotel from the Baron’s widow and was very successful with it, as he was with many of his other ventures in Sandy. The hotel prospered so much that Caspar had to build an addition. (More about Casper Junker later.)

Richard Gerdes, of Eagle Creek, has the distinction of opening the first store and establishing the “Sandy” Post Office in 1873, which gave this tiny town its name. The photo above is enlarged from the photo on page one. You can barely see the Barlow Road trailing off to the right. After a number of years the Gerdes business was sold to Friedrich Meinig. In the 1880s Meinig built a large building a few blocks east to accommodate a larger general merchandise store and included a dance hall and saloon.

Doc Williams was a popular and colorful character who always liked dressing well and driving his Packard. He came to Sandy in 1906 and worked in logging as a whistle punk for a short time. He then worked at a pharmacy in Portland and returned to Sandy to be a pharmacist. However, he had his mind set to be a doctor and he tried, but failed on numerous occasions, to pass the medical exam. This was most likely because he never attended medical school.