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Cafe Unknown: March 2006
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Tanner Springs Park is in the March 2006 issue of Metropolis Magazine. Portland’s Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District is featured in the Metropolis Observed column in the March issue of Metropolis Magazine. Since attending an introductory presentation at the First Congregational Church a few years ago, I have watched the project with interest as it seeks to reveal a long lost wetland landscape in the middle of a new urban neighborhood. The same location, in 1994 and 2006.
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Cafe Unknown: February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. The story begins, as it often does, on a train. This year for New Years we opted not to choose between staying home and finding the right bar full of strangers. This year we went to Vancouver B.C. There we would meet fellow holiday refugees and celebrate the NewYear. We arrived at Seattle's King Street station on time at 9:45pm. View from the elevator , Seattle's Hotel Andra. After crossing the Snohomish River the tracks veered inland into an area of rolling hills, forests far...
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Cafe Unknown: August 2006
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Hung Over on Burnside. They were called the Arcades: Those buildings on East Burnside with their upper floors above the sidewalk. They date to a 1928-1929 street widening project which added two extra lanes to East Burnside, at the expense of the sidewalks. When the sidewalks were re-installed, it was at the expense of bordering storefronts. Of the original ten between Union (MLK Blvd.) and SE 11th, five remain. Nothing came of the idea. Future Restaurants and bars could open ...
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Cafe Unknown: January 2006
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Sunday, January 22, 2006. Portland can be hard on its defining elements. As anyone who has pondered the fate of the late lamented Hotel Portland knows, progress does not march forward in Portland so much as it stumbles. In the process interesting things get knocked over. Yesterday’s parking lot is today’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, itself a worthy centerpiece. The Hotel Portland exists only in collective memory. There it would by joined in 1964 by the fire-doomed cathedral of wood that was the Wo...One d...
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Portland History – Khris Soden
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Live on the Internets. LovejoyPettygrove – a historical resource for Portland. City of Roses: The Adventures of Mayor Harry Lane. April 26, 2010. Mayor Harry Lane, in office from 1905 to 1909, is one of my favorite mayors that Portland ever had. If you’ve never heard of him, you should read the Wikipedia entry. On him. Some of his highlights: “Father of the Rose Festival”, pro-suffrage and anti-white supremacy (unlike his grandfather. The Shaping of a City. Get it while it’s still around. We Love the City.
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We Love the City – Khris Soden
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Live on the Internets. LovejoyPettygrove – a historical resource for Portland. Category: We Love the City. Get it while it’s still around. December 16, 2007. We Love the City. Overheard on the Trolley. July 3, 2007. We Love the City. On my way home from work on Sunday, I notived the Vintage Trolley coming down the MAX lines, and decided to catch it to its terminus over at Lloyd Center. I like the trolley. He then went on to say that they did this around the time the seawall was built in 1929, and that in...
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Portland – 1930s – Khris Soden
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Live on the Internets. LovejoyPettygrove – a historical resource for Portland. Category: Portland – 1930s. The Leo Lange Postcard – Update No. 2. February 1, 2007. Well, I got a little more creative with my searching yesterday, and checked out the database “America’s Obituaries and Death Notices” at the Library. I found Kenneth Lange’s obituary first. And I thought his mother’s obituary was vague:. Chicago Tribune, February 24, 1983. Wow, thanks Chicago Tribune! The Oregonian, September 4th, 1991. 8220;A...
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Cafe Unknown: September 2006
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Sunday, September 17, 2006. A Good Ruin is Hard to Find. In the 1940’s photographers in Portland, such as Minor White, began to document the heartbreaking piecemeal destruction of Old Portland’s cast-iron fronted city beside the river. Thirty years later when the process was complete, only twenty of the approximately one hundred eighty cast-iron ornamented buildings survived. Photographs by Dan Haneckow, 2006. As Gideon Bosker and Lena Lencek state in Frozen Music, A History of Portland Architecture :.
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Cafe Unknown: October 2005
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Saturday, October 15, 2005. You can wait a long time between trains in Astoria. The last scheduled passenger service between Portland and Astoria ended in January 1952. After that, save for a few excursion specials, the line has been used only to haul ever decreasing amounts of freight. Nothing is hauled on the last twenty five miles to Astoria. Y through Monday from Linnton, (north of the St. Johns Brid ge) to Astoria. Nd offers little in the way of surprises for those familiar with that road. Peopl...
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