Kim Novak is best known for her performance in the 1958 Hitchcock thriller Vertigo. She retired from acting in 1991 and has since become an accomplished artist of oil paintings. She lives with her Veterinarian husband on a ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon, where they raise livestock.

Kim Novak with James Stewart in a scene from Vertigo

 
1961

The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper published from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon
City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the
United States. The Spectator was the first American newspaper to be published
west of the Rocky Mountains and was the main paper of the region used by
politicians for public debate on the current topics of the day. As result of
financial problems, the paper ceased publication in 1855.

 
                                 Front page of the paper from April 30, 1846 

The CBS-TV sitcom aired until April 8, 1979. In September of 1979
the show was reorganized and renamed, ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE
and ran until 1983. 

The main characters of the series (clockwise from top) are: Gloria Bunker-
Stivic(Sally Struthers), Michael Stivic(Rob Reiner), Edith Bunker(Jean Stapleton),
and Archie Bunker(Carroll O’Conner). 

NOTE: Sally Struthers was born in Portland, Oregon.

Paul Revere is the founding member of Paul Revere and
the Raiders, a rock group he organized in Idaho in 1958.
On October 13, 2007 the band was officially inducted,
along with their Manager Roger Hart, into the Oregon
Music Hall of Fame. Their long list of hits includes
Hungry and Kicks (1966), and the 1971 top single
Indian Reservation.

Glenn L. Jackson was one of Oregon’s most influential
figures. He was a businessman who was appointed to
The Oregon State Highway Commission by Governor
Mark Hatfield in 1959. Jackson became chairman of
the commission in 1962. He died in 1980 at age 78. 

The Glenn Jackson Memorial Bridge spans the Columbia
River and carries I-205 traffic between Portland, Oregon
and Vancouver, Washington. It opened in December of
1982.