The Bellingham Herald

FOUNDING MOMENTS
Highlights of 1903

In the early years after 1900, some people found entertainment at Pantages Theatre in downtown Bellingham. The theater site is now a parking lot next to the Daylight Building at State and Chestnut streets. HERALD PHOTO

• The Alaskan frontier was settled.

• Jack London was released "Call of the Wild."

• "The Great Train Robbery," at 12 minutes

the longest film to date, came to theaters.

• Painter James Whistler died.

• With $100,000 to spend, Henry Ford founded

Ford Motor Co.

• The first coast-to-coast crossing of North America

by car took 65 days.

• The first teddy bear was designed (and named for

President Theodore Roosevelt).

• The first Tour de France bicycle race was held.

• Comedian Bob Hope was born. He died this year.

• William Harley and Arthur Davidson made

available the first production motorcycle that

bears their names.

• Boston beat Pittsburgh in the first modern

World Series.

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