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)
- Special Olympics (Mike Hines/Bell Stempel)
- Senior Fair
- Toledo Parade
