The original location of the famous family steak house at S.E.103 & Stark St.

From left: Art and Dick Sayler

 
Early facility at 105th and S.E. Stark St.

Art and Dick Sayler began operating the original Old Country Kitchen at 103rd
and Southeast Stark. With only 60 seats and four employees they served 17,000
dinners in that first year! The soon ran out of seating capacity, so they moved to
a larger facility at the present location of 105th and Southeast Stark in 1951.

Rare photograph of Virgil Earp at age 19,
taken in 1862 in Monmouth, IL

 
  Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905)

Virgil Earp was the older brother of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone
City Marshal at the time of the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral
in 1881.

After suffering from pneumonia for six months, Virgil died in the
town of Goldfield, Nevada. His remains were sent to Portland,
Oregon at the request of his daughter Nellie Jane Bohn and
buried at the River View Cemetery (below), the state’s oldest
nonprofit cemetery, dating back to 1882.

The Earp brothers from left: Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil

                                                                                                          (Vintage Portland)
The corner of SE 6th and Morrison

 

  
Johnnie Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990)

John Alvin Ray was born in Dallas, Oregon, spending part of his
childhood on a farm, with parents Elmer and Hazel Ray and older
sister Elma Ray. He attended grade school there and eventually
moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended high school. Ray
was extremely popular as a singer / songwriter, and pianist for 
most of the 1950s.

Johnnie Ray in the studio recording “Cry”

Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads, 1952

This view is of the Northwest Industrial District from NW Yeon Avenue at
Nicolai Street. The first two buildings on the right exist today as Imperial
Paints (below).

Imperial Paint Company has been in business since 1945.