A "hot plant" for the Rogers Construction Co. project involving bituminous mat paving, construction of guardrails, and adding of signs to the Celilo-Rufus section of the "four-lane Interstate 80N freeway" as it was then called. Published in The Dalles Chronicle on Sept. 17, 1966.
An old sexist ad for a showing of “Heartbeat” with Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Nikhail Rasumny and Mona Maris at the Granada Theatre. This ran in The Dalles Chronicle on Sept. 14, 1946.
One of the first color images from The Dalles Chronicle was this ad from Sept. 1966.
Engineers from Asia, with U.S. Corps of Engineers, tour the John Day Dam. Published Sept. 13, 1966 in The Dalles Chronicle.
A "hot plant" for the Rogers Construction Co. project involving bituminous mat paving, construction of guardrails, and adding of signs to the Celilo-Rufus section of the "four-lane Interstate 80N freeway" as it was then called. Published in The Dalles Chronicle on Sept. 17, 1966.
1926 — 100 years ago
Twenty Hood River firemen led by Chief John Volstorff were entertained in the assembly room at the city hall here by the local volunteer company last night.
Arthur T. Pack, former owner of a ranch in the Cherry Hill district, has surrendered to Immigration Commissioner R. P. Bonham on charges of illegal entry into the United States, a Portland newspaper reported today. Captain Pack was an officer in the German merchant marine during the war and attempted to enter the United States from Mexico during the latter days of the conflict. The request to enter was denied and he was arrested in The Dalles by Sheriff Levi Chrisman and held at the German detention camp at Salt Lake City ...
— The Dalles Chronicle
White Salmon’s new movie show house is to be a reality, C. T. Dewey having purchased the old Alpha Opera house which he will remodel into a modern show house. The two story building will be cut down to one...
— White Salmon Enterprise
1946 — 80 years ago
The “pulling power” of Columbia river salmon was demonstrated this week when Rex. R. Campbell, Yakima sportsman and formerly a resident of The Dalles, was “dunked” in the fast water below Celilo falls by a big fish that gave his line such a yank that he was dislodged from the rocky ledge on which he was fishing.
The Dalles was host for an hour this morning to about 50 air-minded residents of Portland, Oregon City and other areas adjoining the Oregon metropolis, when the 20-plane “See Oregon by Air” caravan arrived at the local airport.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1966 — 60 years ago
A group of Southeast Asia engineers spent several hours on the John Day Dam project Monday, viewing massive works that may even be exceeded in size by blocks of concrete and rock embankments to control and put to good use the waters of a river twice as big as the Columbia.
The U.S. Forest Service will soon post new signs in the Mt. Hood National Forest portion of the City of The Dalles watershed prohibiting entry.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The long ago will be recalled as Old Timers meet for luncheon Saturday at the Elks club, where a scale model of a Columbia River fish trap will be shown by the Skamania County pioneers.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
The United States Senate Friday released updated versions of the proposed land use maps which accompany S 2055, the Senate bill to establish federal Columbia Gorge legislation.
— White Salmon Enterprise
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