| In 1921, a Finnish immigrant, Fred Tunturi, purchased lot 16, block 24 of Walnut Park. Fred Tunturi had been a barber and "bleeder" in Finland, and continued as a barber in Portland, Oregon, where he charged twenty five cents for a haircut. Fred Tunturi took great pride in his Finnish love of beauty, craftsmanship, and excellence, and in 1922 built a dwelling for himself, his wife, and their five year old son, Archie R. Tunturi. Archie R. Tunturi lived in this house throughout his formative and high school years, living with his mother there even after she and his father divorced in his 13th year. Archie R. Tunturi went on to become internationally known for his research on the brain and the nervous system prior to his death in 1990 at age 72. He was recognized internationally for his work with mathematical models of the brain, and his goal was to restore voluntary movement after injury to the spinal cord. In his position at the University of Oregon Health Sciences School, Archie Tunturi was the first customer of Tektronix when he bought the company's first model 511 oscilloscope in 1947. |
