Dive into Oregon’s past with the “Instagram of the 1930s”

Kelsey Quinn’s grandparents came to Salem because of a travel ad in Sunset magazine.

The Oregon Highway Department — the precursor to Oregon State Parks and the state Department of Transportation — ran such ads routinely starting in the 1930s, intended to draw travelers to the state and show off the state-of-the-art highways.

Quinn, a third-generation Salemite, said her grandmother persuaded her grandfather, a civil engineer, to pack up their Massachusetts home around 1960 and…