Actress-singer Joan O’Brien, who starred with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in “Operation Petticoat” and was Elvis Presley’s love interest in “It Happened at the World’s Fair,” has died. She was 89.

Newspapers called it the “Petticoat Revolution,” dismissing the politically ambitious women of Umatilla, Ore., as nothing more than an oddity. But the coup they staged on Dec. 5, 1916—exactly 100 ...

OSKALOOSA — The year was 1888, and the citizens of the small town of Oskaloosa in Jefferson County were tired of the town’s rundown look: The streets were muddy; the sidewalks were in disrepair; and ...

Petticoat Junction was a popular TV show in the early 1960s, but it could have been the nickname for a section in my closet set aside for hanging my petticoats also known as bouffants, crinolines, and ...

If you are like me, square dancing calls to mind holding hands with a sweaty boy in the cafeteria on a rainy elementary-school day. The P.E. teacher tried in vain to teach us enough steps to get us ...

In 1963, the sitcom “Petticoat Junction” first aired on CBS. The show about a rustic railroad hotel run by a steadfast matron, her lazy uncle and her three voluptuous daughters ran for seven seasons, ...

Theme songs today, when they aren’t borrowed from popular music, barely register with viewers. But back in the 1960s and ’70s, almost every show opened with a catchy original song, many of which ...

One of the oldest women's art groups in the nation, the Petticoat Painters are not letting their 57 years of exhibiting get in the way of keeping their work new and fresh. "We're an evolving group and ...

NEW YORK — Pat Woodell, a former actress and singer who played the brainy sister Bobbie Jo Bradley for two seasons in the 1960s sitcom "Petticoat Junction," has died. She was 71 and died of cancer on ...