KGW-TV’s children’s show host Heck Harper went on location for the grand opening of a grocery store in Southeast Portland. This footage was shot by Lea Wikdman.
(September 20, 1919 – November 2, 1998)
The original Boys Town was founded as a boys’ orphanage by Edward J. Flanagan,
a Roman Catholic priest working in Omaha. The farm village was opened to girls in
1979.
Father Flanagan, left, and Mickey Rooney during the
filming of the movie "Boys Town," 1938.
Kellogg’s was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on
February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with his
brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium following practices
based on the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The company produced and
marketed the hugely successful Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes and was
renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922.
Will Keith Kellogg
(April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951)
First Kellogg’s package.
