In 1940, two youth gangs engaged in a duel at Gold Beach, Ore.

Celebrating a birthday in the 1960s and 70s in Southern Oregon was always special if you got a pink champagne birthday cake from the Rogue Bakery in Phoenix, Ore. The shop along South Pacific Highway was owned by Dick and Lillian Hendrix, who had operated bakeries from Alaska to Wyoming.

On Feb. 27, 1940, 2.5 inches of rain fell in six hours in Redding, Calif. The following day, rising flood waters closed three bridges leading out of town, including the north end of the newly constructed Market Street bridge, the east approach to the Free Bridge, and both approaches to the Diestelhorst Bridge.

During the early 1900s thousands of cattle and sheep grazed on U.S. Forest Service land in the Modoc National Forest.

If Lillian Parson were still manager of the War Eagle Mine in northern Jackson County, as she had been in the 1940s, she’d probably oppose stopping work for a clean-up suggested by the Department of Environmental Quality. That’s the way she was, too busy to stop working for anything.

Snow-capped, 14,180-foot-high Mount Shasta has always attracted those pursuing the spiritual or the supernatural. Some seek Bigfoot. Native Americans consider it a sacred place. Others believe it is inhabited by Lemurians, ancient, peaceful beings who live inside the mountain in a crystal city called Telos.

In 1924, James Leith opened the first modern auto campground on the Oregon South Coast at Gold Beach.

The success of the Bly, Ore., rodeo encouraged neighboring Lakeview, some 46 miles east of Bly on State Rte. 140, to create its own rodeo.

An original member of the Ashland Highland Kilty Band, Gerald Gunter, had some fond memories of the early days.

Miners and farmers established a school for their children in the 1870s at the juncture of the east and west forks of Forest Creek above Jacksonville.