This program was also occasionally carried on stations in Portland and Augusta, and continued into the mid 1950s.

Later in the 1950s, Fox sold the wooden / metal / fiberglass engine to Harvey Dick, who wanted it to promote his Barbary Coast bar in his 1890s gas light style hotel in Portland, Oregon called the Hoyt Hotel.

The airport was purchased by the Port of Portland in 1942, serving as a reliever airport for nearby Portland International Airport ( PDX ) until the 1950s.

In the 1950s a firm based in Portland, Oregon Stout-Wyss Irrigation System, developed the rolling pipe type irrigation system for farms that has become the most popular type for farmers irrigating large fields.

Plaid Pantry can date its origins to the late 1950s when a California investor built multiple stores in the Portland area, with the financial backing of Alpenrose Dairy.

Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name " Kid Chocolate " and was quite successful.

Governor John Volpe interceded in the 1950s to send the last section of the Central Artery underground, through the Dewey Square Tunnel ; while traffic moved somewhat better, the other problems remained.

The 1950s and early 1960s featured a boom in synagogue construction as upwardly mobile American Jews moved to the suburbs.

In the late 1950s, Weissmuller moved back to Chicago and started a swimming pool company.

Later in the 1950s Perez Prado acquired the Mexican Citizenship, moved to New York for some years, and then returned to Mexico City, where he died on September 14, 1989, aged 72.

In the early 1950s, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent until their families moved apart.

During the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, a large wave of internal migration, especially peasants from rural areas of Southern Italy, moved to the city.

Several clans moved to Canada, in particular the Greater Toronto Area, home to what Canadian law enforcement call the Siderno Group, which has been here since at least the 1950s.

The most distinctive aspect of the town's history is that it was moved to the west in the 1950s to allow for the expansion of Lake Hume.

His politics had in fact moved far towards the right — opinions he shared with Lawrence Durrell, a close friend since the 1950s — but he had felt shut out by the British establishment after his T. E. Lawrence book.

His mother, Irmelin ( née Indenbirken ), is a former legal secretary ; born in Germany, she moved from Oer-Erkenschwick in the Ruhr, to the U. S. during the 1950s, with her parents.

During the rule of Milton Obote and Idi Amin, who were both from northern Uganda, a significant number of northern Ugandans moved to Kampala from the 1950s until the mid-1980s.

He moved into architecture from the early 1950s.

The remaining pre-war population was treated as Germanized Poles and a policy of re-Polonization was pursued throughout the country Most of these " Autochthones " chose to emigrate to West Germany from the 1950s through 1970s ( between 1970 and 1988 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany ).

As the 1940s – 1950s rolled around, Barbados moved towards developing political ties with neighbouring Caribbean islands.

Steel, once a major industry during the booming 1950s and 1960s, phased out after the late 1980s crisis, as Italy moved away from the heavy industry to pursue more technologically advanced and less polluting productions.

The Naskapis shared the site at John Lake with a group of Montagnais, who had moved voluntarily from Sept-Îles to Schefferville with the completion of the railroad in the early 1950s.

" In the early 1950s the company moved to Ohio, and it was bought out by Louis Marx and Company three years later.

The Santa Fe influence would remain very strong until the mid 1950s when Santa Fe moved its employees to Amarillo.

When the details of the trial were later documented by Mortimer in the novel Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders in 2002, he moved the events to the early 1950s.

The ATV operations moved to Elstree and Borehamwood ( now BBC studios ) and the BBC News department, which was the only unit remaining at " Ally Pally " after BBC Television Centre was opened in the 1950s, moved to White City, west London in September 1969.

It had no permanent settlers until people from other parts of Barter Island and northern Alaska moved to the area around the construction of a runway and Distant Early Warning Line station in the 1950s.

Real growth in Montara began in the 1950s as more people moved away from San Francisco during the postwar boom.

Many " clean " industries, especially aerospace firms such as Raytheon and Delco Electronics, moved to town in the 1950s and 1960s, bringing employees from other parts of the U. S. UCSB itself became a major employer.

Hudson stagnated when the Fivay Company went out of business and people turned to the sea or moved away ; shrimping and fishing employed about half of the working men in the 1930s to 1950s.

The stadium later became known simply as Wembley Stadium and it became England's permanent home stadium during the 1950s.

It was referred to as " the Yankee stadium " ( with the " s " in " stadium " sometimes lowercase ) until the 1950s.

Greatfield shut in the 1950s and Shaw Cross, on the Ossett / Dewsbury border near the current Dewsbury Rugby League stadium, closed in 1968.

At the time of its construction in the late 1950s, the stadium site was one of the few pieces of land available in the city that was suitable for a sports stadium and had space for the 10, 000 parking spaces promised to the Giants.

In the 1950s, major league owners Calvin Griffith and Horace Stoneham called the stadium the finest facility in the minors ; Stoneham added that " there were not two better " major league stadiums of the time ( although not specifying which specific two he thought were the Met's equal ) Indeed, the Met's primary purpose was to attract a big-league team to the area.

It has been the home ground of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club since 1889, and has a long and illustrious history as the first ' new build ' stadium in Football League history, one of the first grounds in the country to install floodlights, as well as hosting some of the first European club games in the 1950s.

Since its reconfiguration in the 1950s, six professional sports franchises have used this stadium:

By the time the stadium was constructed in the 1950s, the last remnants of the flocks of " candlestick birds "-which formerly numbered in the thousands-were being shot by hunters until, at least temporarily, none were left.

As a result, the desire for a major-league caliber stadium in the city of Oakland intensified during the 1950s and 1960s.

The IRFU, which had its offices within the stadium complex, allowed occasional other uses of the ground, including athletics ( a crowd of 40, 000 witnessed Olympic gold medalist Ronnie Delany run there in an international athletics meeting in the 1950s ).

With the recognition that the football team had outgrown the campus facility and with popular support to bring all the home games to Eugene, Oregon athletic director Leo Harris led a campaign to build a new stadium on that the school had acquired for the purpose in the 1950s on his recommendation.

Seating was added in the endzones in the 1940s, and by the end of the 1950s the stadium was double-decked on the sidelines.

The stadium, commonly known simply as " Crabble " or, imprecisely, as " The Crabble ", forms part of a larger council-owned complex, and the earlier Dover club originally shared the lower pitch with a rugby club, but moved to the upper pitch in the 1950s, adding a grandstand in 1951, followed soon after by terracing and floodlights.

During the 1950s, parachurch ministries grew rapidly in most Christianized countries, and the focus of activity was on large events, known as Rallies, and stadium events, known as " Crusades ".

A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948, but plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s.

A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948 ; however, plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s.

The 1950s was a decade when all trophies available were won with regularity and it was during this era that Buckie Thistle travelled to Hampden Park to meet Queen's Park in a Scottish Cup 4th round replay on October 30, 1954, prevailing 2-1 and at the same time becoming the first and, still to this day, the only senior non-league club to have won a competitive match at the national stadium.

The stadium became the Mecca of greyhound racing with tens of thousands of spectators attending meetings on a regular basis, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the 1920s onwards, though now drawing very sizeable crowds for amateur football, the club had little success on the pitch until the 1950s, but beat RAF, Uxbridge in their 3rd successive Middlesex Sports Red Cross Cup final win, in the first-ever amateur match at Wembley stadium.

Capacity of the stadium has varied with time, but peaked at about 22, 000 in the 1950s although, with the use of temporary bleachers, a record crowd of 27, 425 watched the Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Montreal Alouettes 50-27 in the 1956 Grey Cup final.

The club has played at the former playground " Kraj Drave ", and since the late 1950s to the present, Osijek matches will be played at the stadium in the Gradskom vrtu. On September 1, 1962 NK Proleter joined with the Boxing and Athletic club Mladost and formed a multi-sport Sportsko društvo Slavonija ( Slavonija Sporting Society ).