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PORTLAND FIRE STATION 28 ~ THEN AND NOW

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5540 NE Sandy Boulevard 1913 to 1984 and 2005 to Present
Built in 1913

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Station 28 – Rose City/Hollywood at 5540 NE Sandy Boulevard was reopened
in 2005

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Engine 28

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HEARING RED!

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Robert “Red” Robinson at the mic in the KGW radio broadcast booth, 1959 

Before coming to Portland, Oregon in 1959, Red Robinson was the first DJ to play
rock ’n’ roll music on a regular basis in Canada where he interviewed such stars as 
Buddy Holly And Elvis Presley. Red held down the 2-6pm slot on radio 62 KGW
and was also the host of Portland Bandstand, a KGW-TV teen music and dance
show on Saturdays. After a hitch in the US Army, Red returned to Canadian radio 
in 1961 and retired from full time air work in 2001. He continues to host a Sunday
radio show.

Red Robinson was elected into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, along
with the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Rockabilly Hall of
Fame in 2000.

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Red Robinson with Elvis Presley

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Boz Scaggs (left) poses with Red in June of 2013

Visit Red anytime at…www.redrobinson.com

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TRAINS SERVING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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INTERNET PIONEER HAS DIED AT 88

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First computer mouse

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     Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) 

Engelbart was the director of Stanford Research Institute’s Augmentation
Research Center in San Francisco. He is best known for his work on the
challenges of human/computer interaction, resulting in the invention of
the computer mouse in 1968.

Douglas Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from
Franklin High School in 1942. He then attended and graduated from
Oregon State College at Corvallis. Engelbart died late Tuesday in
San Francisco. The cause of his death wasn’t announced.

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PORTLAND’S PAST ~ 1965

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A view of SW Broadway and Morrison

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