Mt. Hood as viewed from the city in 1933.

Overlooking Guild’s Lake from the Northwest Hills in 1900.

 
  North Williams and Russell

  

John Lennon had the number one selling album in the United States on this  date in 1971 with “IMAGINE”. It would be John’s only solo LP to sell a million copies and his most popular album until “Double Fantasy” which went  to number one shortly after his assassination on December 8, 1980.

                          
John Adams was born on this date in 1735 in Braintree, Mass.
A conservative Federalist, he was one of  the most influential
Founding Fathers of the United States. 

 

The CBS radio program  “Mercury Theatre On The Air” performed an adaptation of the H.G. wells novel  “The War Of TheWorld’s” on this  date in 1938. The live drama was directed by Orson Wells and employed  fictitious news reports. The program was taken seriously by some listners who thought it’s portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.