The Jay W. Stevens Disaster Service Unit was built in 1939 for the Portland 
Fire Department. The vehicle was the first of its kind and was rededicated
as the Emergency Car in 1953.

The fire station at 55 SW Ash Street was constructed in 1950 as Engine 21’s
quarters and became Engine 1’s house in 1984. The Jay W. Stevens Disaster
Unit can be seen at the far right of the parked apparatus.

Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller

Comedic actor Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller spent many years in the comedy
team Stiller and Meara with his wife Anne Meara. They are the parents of
actor Ben Stiller. Jerry Stiller is best known for his recurring role as Frank
Costanza on the NBC television series Seinfeld (1989-1998) and his
supporting role as Arthur Spooner on the CBS-TV series The King
of Queens.

 
From left: Jerry Stiller, Kevin James, and Leah Remini

Ben Stiller

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The Pulitzer Prize winning photo (“Napalm Girl”) was taken by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut on June 8, 1972. It shows 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center,
running down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm
attack. After snapping the photograph, Ut took Kim Phuc and the other
injured children to Barsky Hospital in Saigon. Following a 14-month
hospital stay and 17 surgical procedures, she was able to return
home. Ut continued to visit her until he was evacuated during the
fall of Saigon.

Kim Phuc today

Nick Ut

Herb Reed (L) and the Platters

               Herb Reed (August 7, 1928 – June 4, 2012)

(LA Times) Herb Reed was in his 20s when he founded the Platters in
Los Angeles in 1953, naming his vocal group after the term used by
radio DJs for the vinyl records of the day. Well into his 80s, Reed was
still touring and singing bass on "Only You," "The Great Pretender,"
"Twilight Time" and the other hits that made the Platters one of the
top R&B groups of the 1950s. Reed, the last surviving member of
the five original members of the Platters when they signed with
Mercury Records in the 1950s, died Monday in a hospice house
in Danvers, Mass., said Fred Balboni, his personal manager.

Dr. Charles Leale

(AP) The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was
shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found
him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles
Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately. The
Army surgeon had been seated 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater that night in April 1865. 

Dr. Leale, who was 23 and just six weeks into his medical practice when
Lincoln died, never spoke or wrote about his experiences again until
1909 in a speech commemorating the centennial of the president’s
birth. 

Leale’s long-lost report of efforts to help the mortally wounded president, 
written just hours after his death, was discovered late last month by
researchers in a box among correspondence of the U.S. surgeon
general at the National Archives.

Drawing of Lincoln’s Death Bed