From 1971 - 1987 Vale’s senior ladies made more than 1,000 quilts!

This mural depicts the actual service station, which was located just down A Street on the corner of W Main Street and catty-corner from the Vale Catholic Church. One exception is that the station was not a Sinclair Station, but due to the cooperation of the Sinclair Station in allowing the mural to be painted on their building, the Mural Society decided to add the Sinclair sign to the painting.

The mural show the transition from the horse and buggy days to the days of the first automobiles, which dramatically changed the lives of all who witnessed this transportation transition of life on what had once been the Oregon Trail.

The scenes at each end of the mural were taken from actual photographs obtained from the Oregon Historical Society’s files. The photographs showing women driving early models of the automobile actually outnumbered the photographs of men in the drivers seat, so a woman was placed behind the wheel of the car in the painting.

Address: A Street and Longfellow (Vale Senior Citizen’s Building)

Artist: Colleen Mitchell (Veyna) Hopkins (painted in 2020)