Northwest Chick for Thursday, October 17, 2002

In 1970, an 8-ton, 45-foot-long sperm whale, dead for some time, washed up on the Pacific Ocean beach south of Florence, OR. After a while, it posed an interesting problem. It reeked! So, the Oregon Department of Transportation, who then had authority over beaches, decided the best thing to do was... Sign in to see full entry.

You may have heard the rumors about the recent sale of the space needle to a private buyer. Folks all over the Northwest are talking about the wild news "snippet" they saw on CNN about a Northwest billionaire purchasing Seattle's famous Space Needle and moving it to his private property on Moses... Sign in to see full entry.