Ed Capps News Today

"Bandon Bank One of the Best" screams a headline in the July 18, 1927, Western World, talking about the Bank of Bandon (first photo), which was founded on the 25th

A headline on the front page of the Western World of July 25, 1929, read: "Leep Memorial Is Considered."

THOMSON MOVES FAST His radio-newspaper holdings stretch from Timmins to Jamaica ... and if he knew Attlee better hed probably try to buy the BBC August 1 1946 BRUCE McLEOD THOMSON MOVES FAST BRUCE McLEOD WHEN it comes to pulling rabbits out of a silk hat, Blackstone may be quite a guy. But that’s just kid stuff for 51-year-old Roy Herbert Thomson, a fast-talking Torontonian who traded mumbo jumbo for supersalesmanship, a magic wand for a fountain pen a...

I am doing things a little bit differently this week, as all three of my historic pictures will be part of the story of one of Bandons oldest businesses, the Capps Motor Co. The first picture shows Capps Garage before the fire of 1936. It is the building on the east side of Oregon Avenue, which was the main highway into town in those days. Today it leads down the hill past Holy Trinity Catholic Church and joins First Street across from the Port of Bandons marketplace building. If you look close...