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Offline CLD

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Sunn street address in Tualatin
« on: March 09, 2009, 05:07:57 pm »
I'm headed to Oregon City next month for my niece's wedding and would like to run by Tualatin, which is pretty close by, to see where my 1971 Sorado was born.  I've read Conrad's 9-22-99 post about Amburn Industrial Park being located on Boones Ferry Road on the south side of Tualatin Sherwood Highway; I've also seen a 2001 reference to 19350 SW 89th St. by another forum member.

Can anyone shed some light on this? In 1999, Conrad mentioned an auto body shop being located on the Amburn site but after 10 years it might be something else.  Anyone know?  Thanks.
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1971 Sorado, 2000S, Coliseum Bass, Coliseum Lead
1970 200S; 1974 Coliseum 880

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Re: Sunn street address in Tualatin
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 07:48:31 pm »
The Amburn site is the SW 89th address. All the catalogs I have going back to the early 70s have that address. I used Google Earth to look for the the original garage address. There is a big office building of one corner of that intersection now. If the property was on the SE corner, the garage might still be standing. IIRC it's on the fringes of Lake Oswego.

Edit: I just looked up the SW 89th address on Yahoo Maps. It doesn't look anything like I remember it. What I remember is it being on the left side of the road as you come from Portland and you saw the end of two buildings with the swimming pool in between. Sunn was in the left building. I applied for a job there in late 69. My sister-in-law worked there one summer. I'll ask her the next time I see her.
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Re: Sunn street address in Tualatin
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 08:43:56 am »
Thanks, LT!  :-)
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1971 Sorado, 2000S, Coliseum Bass, Coliseum Lead
1970 200S; 1974 Coliseum 880

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Re: Sunn street address in Tualatin
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2009, 10:35:10 am »
Here's kind of a grainy pic from a 1982 sound products catalog.

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Re: Sunn street address in Tualatin
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2009, 12:32:30 pm »
I went to GOOGLE MAPS and entered the 19350 SW 89th street address in Tualatin.  That portion of the city has a "Street Level" view where you can pan the view in 360 degrees as though you were in the street at that address.  At that address there was no building that looked remotely anything like the picture attached to one of these posts.  I surmise that either the building has been so altered that it has no resembelance to it's former self, or that it had been torn down an replaced.

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Re: Sunn street address in Tualatin
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2009, 02:32:17 pm »
I was there in 1978 trying to get a shipping carton to send my Ampeg combo amp to Hawaii. I still have a 215 Orion cabinet, a 415M cabinet and a Concert Bass head. I am really glad i found this site and by the way, I remember the building being very easy to find.
73 CONCERT BASS,215 ORION