Archive for March 21st, 2013

A VINTAGE VIEW OF PORTLAND IN 1929

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NE Broadway at 11th avenue

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‘’THE ROCK’’ WAS CLOSED ON THIS DAY IN 1963

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1934 Postcard of Alcatraz Island

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Alcatraz Island, located in the San Francisco Bay in California, was developed as
a military prison (1868), and a federal prison beginning in 1933.

Because the penitentiary was becoming more costly to operate than other prisons,
coupled with the salt water erosion of the buildings, Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy ordered the facility closed. The U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois
opened as the replacement for Alcatraz.

Today, the island’s facilities are managed by the National Park Service as part of
the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tours.

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Robert F. Kennedy

ALCATRAZ military prison

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NEWS THAT MADE HISTORY

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Ross Simpson

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TIMOTHY DALTON TURNED 69 TODAY

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Timothy Dalton as Paris in a U.K. Grammar School
play ‘Tiger at the Gates’ in 1963.

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Timothy Peter Dalton is known for portraying James Bond in The Living
Daylights
(1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), His bond character was the
last one to smoke cigarettes.

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