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CLYDE ‘’THE GLIDE’’ DREXLER IS 51 TODAY

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Clyde Austin Drexler is a retired pro basketball shooting guard and small
forward. He was with the Portland Trail Blazers from 1983 to 1995

 

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1987

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drexler ming card
2009-10 SP Game Used Multi Marks Dual #MDMD Clyde Drexler/Yao Ming

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PORTLAND FIRE AND RESCUE ~ 1897 – 1912

3500 SE Belmont Street 1897 to 1912
Hose 5 and Engine 9 at 3500 SE Belmont Street station

                               
                                 Portland_Fire_Emblem
                                       Always Ready, Always There

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FIRST PRIZE IN THE 1908 ROSE PARADE

rose parade first prize 1908
Portland Fire, Horse Company #20

               red rose

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PORTLAND POST CARD~BROADWAY AT DUSK

broadway at dusk

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BIBLE CREATOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor  (May 8, 1917 – June 10, 2005)

        

Taylor was a publisher and author, better known as the creator of 
the The Living Bible and the founder of Tyndale House, a Christian
publishing company and Living Bibles International. 

Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon. His parents were George
and Charlotte Huff Taylor. His father was a Presbyterian minister.
 
Kenneth graduated in 1934 from Beaverton High School in the
town of Beaverton, Oregon. He then enrolled at Wheaton College
in Illinois where he graduated in 1938. In 1940, Taylor began work
on a Th D. at Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas, finishing his
theological degree at Northern Baptist Seminary in Illinois.

Taylor finished the entire Bible in contemporary language and
published it as The Living Bible in 1971. 

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