Yvette Carmen Mimieux

Among Yvette’s earliest screen appearances was a role in the teen movie
Where the Boys Are (1960) as well as in George Pal‘s film version of H.G.
Wells‘ 1895 novel The Time Machine (also 1960).

Mimieux retired from acting in 1992. She is now an anthropologist and a
real estate investor.

Yvette Mimieux  and Rod Taylor

Bob Miller behind the morning microphone at KPAM

1979

Bob Miller’s final air gig on KPAM – AM 860 will Friday, Jan. 3 from
7 to 10 a.m. Ending a 10 year stint with the station. Thank you Bob
and good luck!

 
                                                                                                           (OSU collection)

Barney Keep posing with a box of chains in the KEX booth around the 1960s

Barney began his broadcasting career at KEX radio in 1943. He remained in the
”Keep Time” morning-drive slot for 35 years, retiring in 1979. Barney was a true professional in every sense of the word!

Barney (Byron William Keep/Jan. 9, 1917 – Feb. 19, 2000) rings the
“goodie gong” for the last time during his retirement party at the
Civic Theater in February of 1979. 

Bob Swanson (May 20, 1942 – Sept. 11, 2001)

The smooth, personable voice of Bob Swanson came to Portland’s KEX (1190 AM)
radio in 1967. He was an important part of his midday listeners daily lives until he
retired in 1994. Shoppers at Fred Meyer and Thriftway stores also heard his “voice
in the ceiling” announcing in-store messages. He also made many local commercials
and was a member of barbershop quartets. Bob left us way too at the age of 59 from
complications related to leukemia. He is still greatly missed!

Bob Swanson (left) with KEX legend Barney Keep back in the “real” 
radio days!

Art Bell became a licensed amateur radio operator at the age of 13

Arthur William "Art" Bell, III on the air at KSBK in Okinawa

Art and his wife Airyn

Art is a retired broadcaster and author known primarily as one of the
founders and the original host of the paranormal–themed radio program
Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion
show Dreamland. Semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM since 2003, he
hosted the show many weekends for the following four years. He retired
from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007.

During the Vietnam War, Art served as a medic in the United States Air
Force. After leaving military service he stayed in Asia, living on the
Japanese island of Okinawa where he worked as a disc jockey for
KSBK, the only non-military English-language station in Japan

Art with daughter Asia

                     Happy Birthday “Spotty”