As a part of Lincoln City Community Days we will be supporting Family Promise with historical questions and witty quips a Trivia Night at the Pines Dine. Test your knowledge of Lincoln City’s history and how it’s connected to our local ecology. There will be fun prizes for our winners!
Visit NLCHM that afternoon to refresh your memory (we close at 4pm), then head on over to Pines Dine across the Oregon Coast Highway to grab some dinner from one of the 13 amazing food trucks on site!
$10 to enter, and we will start at 5:00 pm and will wrap things up by 7:00 pm on Friday, April 24, 2026!
Did you know that Lincoln City used to have their very own TV station? From the late 1980s through the 1990s, Lincoln City’s community news program TV 10 captured the people, places, and turning points that shaped our coast. Roger Robertson ran the station, and recently he and his wife Pat donated more than 270 VHS tapes from the TV 10 archive to NLCHM. These original tapes hold rare interviews with state leaders, local officials, scientists, educators, and business owners, alongside on-the-ground coverage of community life and rare footage of Highway 101 and the Oregon Coast as they were 30–40 years ago.
VHS is a fragile, obsolete format. Thirty years is about the length that the tape can last before it degrades beyond recovery. Due to storage in our coastal climate, many of these tapes already show signs of mold and physical degradation. We have gotten an estimate of what it would cost to clean, repair, and digitize these tapes to archival standards, to both preserve this irreplaceable local history, and share it with the public.
Our Goal: $25,000 to Preserve 272 Tapes at Archival Standards
Your support will fund careful cleaning and stabilization, high-resolution capture, metadata creation, expanded digital storage capacity, and long-term preservation. Funding will also support professional review and preparation of footage for online public access.
How to Donate
To ensure your gift supports the TV 10 Digitization Project:
Check: Payable to NLCHM, memo line: TV 10 Digitization
In Person: Deliver donations at the museum front desk
Or Online, here:
Sponsorship & Donor Recognition
$5,000 — Collection Sponsor
Special recognition on project materials, remediation of 50-80 tapes
$1,000 — Preservation Partner
Special recognition on project materials, remediation of 10-16 tapes
$500 — Tape Steward
Supports digitization of 5-8 tapes
$100 — Community Supporter
Supports digitization of 1-2 tapes
Gifts of any size directly fund preservation, storage infrastructure, and public accessibility.
Be Part of the Preservation
Help rescue Lincoln City’s visual history before time erases it. Your support keeps these stories accessible—permanently.
Donate today. Preserve the past for tomorrow.
Based on the labels on the tapes, there is footage of the following people, businesses, organizations, and places documented on these tapes:
Tradewinds Fishing
Siletz Airport
State Parks (Fogarty Creek State Park, D River Wayside)
Tradewinds in Depoe Bay (whale watching excursions)
Galluci’s
Theater West
Harbor Bay Home Furnishings
Groth Gates
Bank of Newport
Devil’s Lake Rock Co.
Seagull Factory
Nelscott Strip
Antique dealers of the region
Footprints
Nelscott Leatherworks
Allegory Bookstore
TShirt Tales
Royal Pacific
Lincoln City Stationary
Western Auto
Kenny’s IGA Produce
North Lincoln Hospital & North Lincoln Hospital Foundation
Lincoln County Road Dept.
Lincoln City’s City Council
Falcon Sign
Hobby ‘n’ Craft
Booster Club
Rotary Picnic
Kiwanis
LC Chamber of Commerce
Oregon Coast Association
Hugh Grodin (sp?) Tire & Auto Repair
7th Day Adventist Church
Ducks Unlimited
Central Coast Peaceworks
Gov. Goldschmidt
Gov. Barbra Roberts
Sen. Bob Packwood
Sam Cribbs, Mayor
Coast Guard, Chief Moody
USCG, Scott Klindeta
Cindy Sidel, LC Schools Superintendent
Kim Singer
Louie Bowman
Sam Shinberg
Brian Hillis
Fran Fisk
Myra Thompson
Molly McMann
Alice Sims
Mel Blanchard, artist
Ed Christie
Gary George
Betty Mason
Connie Davis
Joan Chambers
David Frohnmayer
Bill Jolley
Hedy Rijken
Dee Hershey
Steve Lovejoy
Maxine Bush
Dr. Marcell Robertson
Maxine Bush AARP
Sam Shinberg
Ed Hemmingson
Rick Grimshaw
Bob Stewart
Delpha Redford, Walker Travel
Ken Zeer
Don Lindly
Hugh Grandin
List of the Events represented in these tapes:
Soap Box Derby (Elks?)… also First Annual Richard Wells Memorial Soap Box Derby
Miniature Show
Fleet of Flowers in Depoe Bay
Depoe Bay Christmas
Music at Dorchester
Children’s Festival 1988
Salmon Bakes 1986-1990
4th of July parade
Taft High School Christmas program, also Taft High School football
Taft Middle School and grade school Christmas programs
Oceanlake Christmas program
Kite Festival
Clam Chowder Cookoff
Halloween parade
Chili Cookoff
4th of July Fireworks
Grass Carp Festival (Devil’s Lake Water Improvement District)
Step back in time and celebrate the rich history of our coastal community! Join the North Lincoln County Historical Museum (NLCHM) and Kenny’s IGA for Lincoln City Memories, a fun, family-friendly event filled with local stories, historic photographs, and nostalgia.
Date: Saturday, April 18th, 2026, 5-7PM Location: North Lincoln County Historical Museum, 4907 SW Highway 101, Lincoln City
Discover images of people and places from the past, hear tales from longtime residents, and relive the moments that shaped Lincoln City. Bring your friends, family, and your own memories to share. Don’t miss this chance to celebrate Lincoln City Community Days by remembering our history and connecting with your neighbors!
Snacks and drinks provided by Kenny’s IGA – keeping our community nourished and connected.
