Archive for May 5th, 2012
PORTLAND POSTCARD FROM 1910
HOLIDAY TODAY!
LANDMARK DEDICATED ON THIS DAY IN 1918
The nation’s first publicly owned rest area.
Picture postcard of Vista House before it was opened to the public
Construction of the Vista House atop Crown Point in Oregon began on December 29, 1916. It was built as a rest stop observatory for travelers
on the old Columbia River Gorge Highway and as a memorial honoring
Oregon’s pioneers who made their way down the Columbia River.
ONE OF THE LAST IDOLS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1914
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958)
Tyrone Power, sometimes known as Ty Power, was a film and stage
actor who appeared in many films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often
in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as in The Mark of Zorro
(1940), Blood and Sand (1941), Prince of Foxes (1949), and The
Black Rose (1950). Power died of a heart attack at the age of 44.
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