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John Jacob Astor Hotel

... that the world's first cable television system was installed in 1948 in Astoria, Oregon, using an antenna on the roof of the Hotel Astoria (pictured)?
... that Lost Forest in Lake County, Oregon, is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert?
... that a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon, was a sure sign of rain ahead?
... that Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?

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