Sports and Recreation
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Alling Goss scrapbook
Walter Alling Goss (1877-1950) was a Portland insurance agent, winner of several Northwest tennis championships and first president of the Irvington Tennis Club. Scrapbook includes clippings, programs, and memorabilia relating to Goss's tennis accomplishments and his activities with the Irvington Tennis Club and the YMCA.
Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association scrapbook about the 1965 Women's International Bowling Congress Championship Tournament
Scrapbook documenting the Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association's successful bid for Portland, Oregon, to be the host city for the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) Championship Tournament. The scrapbook also documents the tournament itself. The 48th WIBC Championship Tournament was held in Portland in April and May 1965.
Oral history interview with Daniel D. Grecco
Oral history interview with Daniel D. Grecco, conducted by Lew Cook and Grace Montgomery on December 7, 1976. Grecco watches films of early aviation held by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, and discusses them. He also talks about repairing the Spirit of St. Louis during Charles Lindbergh’s visit to Portland in 1927.
R. P. Hanson photograph album
Album of black and white photographs of R. P. Hanson, family, and friends, mostly unidentified or identified only by first name, on vacation and at home. Subjects include swimming and other outdoor activities; sports; houses; city and street scenes; and children (including many snapshots of a pair of twins).
Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn
Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.
Oral history interview with Leah Hing
Oral history interview with Leah Hing, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 2, 1980. Hing discusses taking lessons from Tex Rankin at the Tex Rankin School of Flying in Portland, Oregon, during the 1930s, as well as the plane she owned and her involvement with the Ninety-Nines and the Aero Club.
History of aviation in Oregon (1889-1930)
Typescript paper regarding the history of aviation in Oregon, with notes, research, bibliography, and interviews and information on early pilots: Ed Ball, Danny Grecco and Jimmie Rinehart.
Oral history interview with Howard Hobson
Oral history interview with Howard Hobson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from June 28 to July 2, 1982. Hobson was a basketball player and a coach of college football, basketball, and baseball.
Hjalmar Hvam scrapbooks
Hjalmar Hvam (1902-1996) was a champion skier and inventor of the first safety ski binding. Collection includes scrapbooks with photographs, clippings, correspondence and ephemera regarding Hvam's skiing career.
A Jolly Jaunt (Travelogue)
Reminiscences of F. Hague Callister (1914-1996), describing a camping trip to Marys Peak, Oregon, in June 1927. Callister grew up in Albany, Oregon. He later lived in Portland, Oregon, and then Wilsonville, Oregon, and was known for his advocacy for people with disabilities.