Archive for September, 2013

JANE MEADOWS IS 94 TODAY

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Jane Meadows (Jane Meadows Cotter) is a stage, film and television actress, as
as well as an author. She was a regular panelist on the original CBS version of 
I’ve Got a Secret (1952-1967) and an occasional panelist on the CBS game 
show What’s My Line? (1950-1967), along with her husband Steve Allen.

Growing up in China, Jane Meadows was forced to learn English after moving to
America in the early 1930s. She is the older sister of actress Audrey Meadows.



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PORTLAND’S GOLDEN WEST COFFEE

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A Golden West Coffee box from the 1940s. Closset  & Devers, Inc. was
located at the corner of Northwest Fifteenth Ave. and Pettygrove Street.

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   closset & devers ad 1903
    1903

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KENT MCCORD IS 71 TODAY

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Kent McCord (Kent Franklin McWhirter) at age 5

Kent McCord

McCord is best known for his role as Officer Jim Reed on the NBC-TV 
series Adam-12 (1968-1975). His first television appearance was in
1962 on ABC’s The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. He also had small
parts in three Elvis Presley films.

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SERIES AIRED FIRST TIME ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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The Brady Bunch is a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that originally
aired
on ABC-TV until March 8, 1974 after being cancelled. 

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brady viewmaster reels

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TV SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1962

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The Beverly Hillbillies is a situation comedy that originally aired for nine 
seasons on the
CBS television network until March 23, 1971. The series
ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for
eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the
year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched  
television episodes of all time. 


 

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Donna Douglas (Doris Smith) is 80 today

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