Bob Sealy founded the Seaside Amateur Astronomers Club and taught astronomy at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon.
Born 30 August 1988, Alexander Corbisiero is the great grandson of Riccardo Corbisiero, who emigrated from Naples to the United States in 1923 and established Riccardo's – a restaurant well known for its continental cuisine – in Astoria, Queens in the early 1950s.
Genovese was founded in 1924 by Joseph Genovese, in Astoria, Queens.
Upon his arrival, he determined that the headquarters of the company at Fort Astoria (now Astoria, Oregon) at the mouth of the Columbia River was unfit.
Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.
On September 7, 1919, Emil Molt established the first Waldorf school in cooperation with Rudolf Steiner.
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The Waldorf-Astoria tobacco brand, with the portrait of John Jacob Astor, was taken over by a different company and is currently produced by Reemtsma.
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The Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik (English:Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory) was a German tobacco company, established by Emil Molt and several other partners on January 1, 1906.
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Its most popular route is the TransAmerica Trail (formerly the Bikecentennial Trail) which runs between Astoria, Oregon and Yorktown, Virginia.
Alexander Barry was born on August 23, 1892, in Astoria, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River.
The first paved road to Anavryti was built in the 1980s with donations sent by the Anavryti Hometown society in Astoria, Queens, New York.
In the spring of 2000 Ani Lorak recorded the soundtrack for an advert for the Chocolate "Korona" at the London studio "Astoria".
The bridge itself is featured prominently in the movies Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop, and The Goonies.
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It stands in for the doomed fictional Madison Bridge in Irwin Allen's 1979 made-for-TV disaster movie The Night the Bridge Fell Down.
The Goonies (1985) Some scenes filmed along the Sonoma Coast, Bodega Bay (and Astoria OR, and Cannon Beach OR).
During this time, the Astoria hosted many important guests from abroad, including Jane Fonda.
And when the Empress of Britain was launched the same year as the "new" Waldorf-Astoria, among its modern Art Deco decors, the "Mayfair Lounge" by White, Allom was the one space in Edwardian Renaissance manner.
After Claytown Troupe played to sell-out audiences from London's famous Marquee Club and Astoria, they were invited to play as support band for The Cult's Sonic Temple tour, at venues such as Wembley Arena and Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.
Visitors may experience what it is like to pilot a tugboat, participate in a Coast Guard rescue on the Columbia River Bar, and live in Astoria during the height of salmon fishing.
David Stuart (fur trader), fur trader with the North West Company and Pacific Fur Company, and one of the founders of Fort Astoria
Born in Astoria, New York, Gardner was a representative for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before going into show business.
Elyse Guttenberg was born in New York City and grew up in Astoria, and Rochdale Village in Queens.
Amick shipped out on the USS Astoria a week later as she prepared to participate in the first Allied thrust in the Pacific, the invasion of the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal.
Before being ordained to the priesthood, Bishop Barbarito served as a deacon at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Astoria, Queens, for one year.
Destinations served earlier in its history include Bellingham, Hoquiam and Mount Vernon in Washington, as well as Astoria and Portland in Oregon.
Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the Waldorf (1893) and the adjoining Astoria (1897) hotels for William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Astor, respectively.
The events of the play (and book) were set just north of Astoria in Naselle, Washington.
The Butts Band played a short US tour (including multiple dates at New York's Max's Kansas City), a handful of British dates (including opening for The Kinks at London's Finsbury Park Astoria, later The Rainbow Theatre) as well as recording one session for BBC TV's The Old Grey Whistle Test after which Roden, Chenn and Davies left the group.
Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club.
John Andrew Buchanan (1863 — 1935) was a judge and politician in Astoria in the U.S. state of Oregon, and an amateur poet who wrote the lyrics to the Oregon state song.
KOAC-FM, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to Astoria, Oregon, United States
Halpin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City to parents, Helen and Eugene Halpin, and grew up with his family in Long Island City.
She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.
He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.
His older brothers persuaded him to become a right-handed batter, and he was a .400 hitter at William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York.
In 2011, Google Maps mislabeled Quebec Route 366 as running concurrent with the entire length of U.S. Route 30 from Astoria, Oregon to Atlantic City, New Jersey.
It starts at the Astoria, the intersection with Little Boulevard in the Downtown and runs to east between VII. and VIII. districts, crossing the Grand Boulevard until gets the Keleti Railway Station (the central inter-city and international railway terminal of Budapest).
Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, loan sharking and gambling, and was responsible for receiving tribute payments from Greek-American gangsters operating in Astoria.
Other operations include training flights from Astoria and the Willamette Valley, charter flights, US Coast Guard, and Air National Guard operations.
While some worked in the area's not insubstantial timber industry, most of the Finns in Astoria caught steelhead and salmon on the Columbia, working independently as small proprietors on their own boats.
The fictional Madison Bridge is represented by the Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.
In August 1934, journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, who bore a slight resemblance to Franklin D. Roosevelt, tested for the lead role at Eastern Service Studios in Astoria, Queens.
Filming took place from February 2010 to April in Astoria, Queens, NY, with several scenes shot in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City.