In 1972 I went to work for Eagle Flight Center which was based at Hillsboro airport. Periodically this "old guy", I was sixteen, would come out to the gliderport where I worked to do inspections on our gliders. His name was Ed Ball and I had no idea at the time of Ed's long history with Hillsboro airport and his partnership with Swede Ralston. My awareness of Swede at the time was that he was "the Commander guy". Eventually I developed many relationships on the airport and an attachment to it's history. Like aviation in general I think it had a golden era, for each of us though associated with Hillsboro it may have been a different period depending upon where one might have been standing in time. Hopefully these pictures will still capture it's essence for each of us. For those unfamiliar, the Beaverton Airport was closed in the late 60's and is now the Beaverton Mall. The changes surrounding both airports brings to mind the Pretenders song, "My City Was Gone". Included as well are some pictures my father took at Lenhardt's south of Portland. Thanks to Ed and Swede's families for sharing their family and professional history with the rest of us.