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Velma Rantanen 1914 - 1982

Velma Rantanen of Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon was born on July 27, 1914, and died at age 68 years old in September 1982.
Velma Rantanen
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon 97103
July 27, 1914
September 1982
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Velma Rantanen's History: 1914 - 1982

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  • 07/27
    1914

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    July 27, 1914
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  • 09/dd
    1982

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    September 1982
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    Velma Rantanen lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1914, in the year that Velma Rantanen was born, in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
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In 1920, when she was just 6 years old, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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