Happy Birthday, Oregon

[KSF-ERIC]

I believe today is our 161st!

 

[HailBlazers]

Thanks, ERIC. I'm fifth Generation!

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Thanks, ERIC. I'm fifth Generation!

Got you beat, I'm number one.

 

[HailBlazers]

Got you beat, I'm number one.

Sorry to break it to you, the scale is 1 to 161 like IQ.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Sorry to break it to you, the scale is 1 to 161 like IQ.

So together were up to 6!

 

[PDXFonz]

My ancestors came to Oregon as pioneers on the Oregon Trail. That’s why I’m here and for that I say thank you to all those who risked their life to make that Journey.

 

[Minstrel]

My ancestors played the Oregon Trail computer game, which is not precisely the same, but I think still gives me some bond to the state.

 

[HailBlazers]

My ancestors played the Oregon Trail computer game, which is not precisely the same, but I think still gives me some bond to the state.

Good thing they didn't die of Dysentery.

 

[Chris Craig]

I played Oregon Trail in middle school and made it all the way...my 10th time playing. Damned dysentery, typhoid, cholera, drowning, exhaustion, accidental gun shot wounds, snakebites, broken axles and wheels, and those damned Oxen.

 

[Chris Craig]

I was actually born in Texas, but have lived the majority of my life here in Oregon between Jacksonville, Meford, Grants Pass, and Portland (lived in Portland 25 years now).

 

[Minstrel]

Do you guys pronounce Oregon as:

Or-a-gin
Or-gone
Oregano

 

[PDXFonz]

My ancestors played the Oregon Trail computer game, which is not precisely the same, but I think still gives me some bond to the state.

Gives you the illest bond to the state brother!

Man those were the days!!

 

[PDXFonz]

I played Oregon Trail in middle school and made it all the way...my 10th time playing. Damned dysentery, typhoid, cholera, drowning, exhaustion, accidental gun shot wounds, snakebites, broken axles and wheels, and those damned Oxen.

Don’t forget the perilous rivers. Every time you approach one you are thinking “please don’t sink, please don’t sink, please don’t...SHIT!”

 

[ABM]

Do you guys pronounce Oregon as:

Or-a-gin
Or-gone
Oregano

Willa - Met

 

[Lanny]

I believe today is our 161st!

I remember the 100th. My father, like a lot of other men in Oregon, grew a beard to commemorate the birthday year.

Edit:
Somewhere around 1960 I collected an 1859 silver dollar which I thought was cool because that was the year that Oregon joined the Union. One of my young friends stole it when he was over at my house. Decades later, I bought another 1859 silver dollar while in Reno and I've still got that one.