On December 3, 1979, the last Pacer rolled off the assembly
line at the American Motors Corporation (AMC) factory in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.

By 1979, however, sales had faded considerably. Today,
polls and experts agree: The Pacer was one of the worst
cars of all time.

By the end of the 1960s, AMC was the only surviving
independent automaker in the United States.

Despite (or perhaps because of) its bad reputation, the
Pacer has also earned a spot in pop-culture history.

In January 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began the
acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company (in what
was called a merger).

The new corporation would be called the American Motors
Corporation. An earlier corporation with the same name, co-
founded by Louis Chevrolet, had existed in Plainfield, New
Jersey, from 1916 through 1922 before merging into the
Bessemer–American Motors Corporation.

As related in a letter dated the following day, General
George Washington wrote to Congress from his
headquarters in  Trenton, New Jersey, to report that
he had transported much      

of the Continental Army’s stores and baggage across the
Delaware River to Pennsylvania on December 2, 1776.

His famous crossing of the Delaware would come less than
one month later.

In his letter, Washington wrote, "Immediately on my arrival
here, I ordered the removal of all the military and other stores
and baggage over the Delaware, a great quantity are already
got over, and as soon as the boats come up from Philadelphia,
we shall load them, by which means I hope to have every
thing secured this night and tomorrow if we are not disturbed."

General George Washington’s army settled into a second
season at Morristown, New Jersey, on December 1, 1779.

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in
Hoboken, New Jersey in the first collegiate football game
played on Thanksgiving.

The football was oval and made of leather, the Times noted,
"similar to those used in Rugby Union rules." The game
resembled rugby more than a present-day football game.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A holiday staple returned to
Portland on Wednesday: Rudolph is back!

The red nose of the iconic “White Stag” sign on the west
end of the Burnside Bridge is always illuminated the day
before Thanksgiving.

The Rose City tradition started back in 1959 as a gift when
“Elizabeth Blair Hirsch suggested it and her husband Harold
S. Hirsch made it happen, adorning the sign for his sportswear
company White Stag,” the city said.

In the 1940s, the sign used to be an ad for "white satin sugar."
It didn’t have the deer logo. Then, the building housed the
"white stag" sportswear company (below).

The sign was named a historic landmark in the 70s. In the 90s
the letter was changed to say "Made in Oregon, Old Town" as
we know it today.

The University of Oregon started leasing space in
the building in 2006 and bought the block in 2015.