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Nov

IT WILL CHANGE AGAIN!

                    The sign in 1940.

                  The change in 1959.

   The sign was changed again in 1997. Photos: Dismantling 'Made in Oregon' sign
A Portland landmark is about to change again. The
”Made in Oregon” sign will soon say,”Portland Oregon”.
Work began today to convert the sign by a target date of
Friday, November 26th.

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Nov

PORTLAND’S “COWBOY BOB”!

Cowboy movie star Bob Steel was born Robert Adrian Bradbury
in Portland, Oregon, January 23, 1907 into a vaudeville family.
The Bradbury’s settled in Hollywood in the late 1910’s after
years of touring. Bob’s father found work in movies as
an actor and later as a director. In the 1920 he hired Bob
and his twin brother Bill as young leads for a series of
adventure moves entitled “The Adventures of Bob and
Bill”. As a result of this movie exposure he was hired by a
booking office to star in a series of Westerns in
1927. Steel soon made a name for himself and
in the late 1920’s to the 1940’s he starred in ‘B’
Westerns for many minor film studios, including
Republic. Bob did have a role in a major film, a 1939
adaptation of the Steinbeck novel “OF MICE AND MEN”.

By the 1940’s Steel’s career began to decline, but he kept
himself working by accepting supporting roles in many
movie’s and lots of television work, culminating with
his regular supporting role in the comedy TV series
“F Troop”(1965 – 1967). He played the character of Trooper
Duffy. Bob died at 81 on December 21, 1988 from emphysema.

1932 1944

Bob Steel in the 1960’s

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Nov

PORTLAND’S MOST FAMOUS STAR’S

Actress/singer Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) was born in Portland on
April 1,1929 and attended Grant High School. She currently lives in
Manhattan with her husband,former child actor Dick Moore( Pictured).

Singer / songwriter Johnnie Ray was born in Hopewell ,Oregon but moved to Portland after graduating from grade school. He attended Franklin High. Johnnie died in 1990 of liver failure.