New System Laundry with fleet and employees 1001 NE
Flanders St. (City of Portland photo)

Road crew with shovels stand on foster road after clearing
snow off street during 1916 winter snowfall, Foster Road
in SE Portland, Jan. 21. 1916.
Oregon Historical Society

Snow removal at SW Tichner Dr., near Council Crest in
Portland, circa 1956.

Crew busy at snow removal on SW 12th Ave between Main
and Jefferson St., Feb. 2, 1950.
City of Portland Auditor’s Office

Snow removal on SW Broadway and Yamhill, Jan. 25, 1943.
City of Portland

Digging out a street car after a heavy snow fall, on East
Glisan near East 39th Avenue, circa 1916.
Oregon Historical Society

Feb 1., 1937 saw 12.8 inches of snow in downtown Portland.
City of Portland Auditor’s Office

Snow along Sandy Boulevard today in Northeast Portland.
KATU image

Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at a Detroit
ice rink following a practice session two days before the
Olympic trials. A man hit Kerrigan with a club on the back
of her knee, causing the figure skater to cry out in pain and bewilderment. When the full story emerged a week later,
the nation became caught up in a real-life soap opera.

One of Kerrigan’s chief rivals for a place on the U.S. Figure
Skating Team was Tonya Harding. In mid-December 1993,
Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, approached Shawn
Eckardt about somehow eliminating Kerrigan from the
competition. Eckardt set up a meeting with Derrick Smith
and Shane Stant, who agreed to injure Kerrigan for a fee.

Tonya Harding (left) says she was scared for her own       
safety after the infamous 1994 baton attack on her fellow
fellow Olympic figure skater and longtime competitor
Nancy Kerrigan (right).  

        
        

Tonya Maxene Price (54) was born
in Portland, Oregon.

N8082U, the United Airlines DC-8-61 involved, pictured in
1972 sporting a previous identifying design. Photo taken
at Seattle / Tacoma – Int. (SEA). 

       
        
       
Originating at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, United
Airlines Flight 173 stopped in Denver, and continued to
Portland on Thursday, December 28, 1978.

The pilot reported a problem with the plane’s nose landing
gear to the Portland tower, and, according to the National
Transportation Safety Board report, failed to monitor properly
the aircraft’s fuel state and to properly respond to the low
fuel state. The Board blamed pilot error for the crash

After circling Portland International Airport the DC-8 ran out
of fuel and crashed into two vacant houses and a grove of
trees at East Burnside Street, five miles southeast of the
airport and about 200 feet east of 157th Avenue  at around
6:15 P.M.

The jetliner, reportedly was carrying 172 adult passengers,
five infants and eight crew members.

     
    
    
Capt. Malburn "Buddy" McBroom (52), a World War II Navy
veteran and longtime United pilot, recovers in a Gresham,
Oregon hospital.  (KATU)        

United Flight 173 survivor Lynn Egli, right, stands with
KATU’s Steve Dunn at the memorial for the passengers
aboard United Flight 173 that killed 10 people. (KATU)

Neil Edward Goldschmidt (June 16, 1940 – June 12, 2024)
    
    
    
    
   

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Former Oregon governor, Portland
Mayor and admitted sexual abuser Neil Goldschmidt has
died at age 83, according to his family. The reported cause
was heart failure.

Prior to leaving the public eye, Goldschmidt admitted to sexually
abusing a minor.

The portrait of former Governor Neil Goldschmidt was
removed from the Legislative Library on the fourth floor
of the Oregon State Capitol in 2011.