Peter Paltridge – Page 28 – For Portlanders Only

Portland’s Anti-Tourism Campaign — July 1982

November 29, 2015 Peter Paltridge

In the 1960’s Portland experienced explosive growth and attempted to put a cap on it. Interesting back then, a thousand

October 31, 2015 Peter Paltridge

A BORGOR!! A DWEENK!! And french fries.

October 22, 2015 Peter Paltridge

Gee, I wonder when THIS was made.

While other stations had abandoned lengthy signoffs by the early 80’s, KOIN was still going the whole nine yards. Over

OPB was still shutting down for the night in the mid-80’s. This variant showed a pastiche of main titles for

Here are three variants of the signoff sequence for OEPBS, recorded throughout 1981.

October 7, 2015 Peter Paltridge

OPB was originally called OEPBS, but you have to go pretty far back to find footage of that version. This

Keep in mind: the date I’m attaching to this video is the year in which it was recorded. I’m pretty

Rather short, but to the point. Click (or tap) here to see an alternate version of this signoff…

At the dawn of the 80’s, the “This Is Oregon” signoff was replaced with this until KATU expanded to a