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Considered a 100-year flood, [2] it was the worst flood in recorded history on nearly every major stream and river in coastal Northern California and one of the worst to affect the Willamette River in Oregon. It also affected parts of southwest Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. [1] [3]
Poster for Lost Horizon (1937) Stepin Fetchit and Chubby Johnson in Bend of the River (1952) Carolyn Craig in Portland Exposé (1957) Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber (1972) Screenwriter Bo Goldman and producer Michael Douglas on set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Timberline Lodge, exterior location of the Overlook Hotel in The ...
1964 – Christmas flood of 1964; 1965 – Pittock Mansion (house museum) opens. 1967 – Portland Japanese Garden opens. 1968 – KJIB and KBOO radio begin broadcasting. 1969 – Tri-Met (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon) established, replacing Rose City Transit. 1970 – People's Food Co-op founded. 1971 Powell's ...
Extremes outside the period of record include flood maximums during the roughly 110 years before the Morrison Bridge gauge was put in place. The biggest recorded Willamette River flood, the Great Flood of 1861, [27] produced a much larger maximum, 635,000 cubic feet per second (18,000 m 3 /s), in downtown Portland than that of the 1996 flood. [28]
The Willamette River (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles (301 km) long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States.
Virginia Christine (born Virginia Christine Ricketts; March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996) was an American stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress. [1] Though Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, she may be best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" (or the "Folgers Coffee Woman") in a string of television commercials for Folgers Coffee during the 1960s and 1970s.
This is a list of Oregon Encyclopedia articles (first column) as of 2017-06-07 and a possible associated Wikipedia article (second column).. The third, fourth, and fifth columns displays confirmed Wikipedia articles, quality assessment, and whether or not the Oregon Encyclopedia link appears on the Wikipedia article (or its corresponding talk page), respectively.
We Shall See is a 1964 British drama film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Maurice Kaufmann, Faith Brook and Alec Mango. [1] [2] It was adapted by Donal Giltinan from the 1926 novel We Shall See! by Edgar Wallace, and was made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.