Portland meets Willoughby
SE 7th – before its widening in the 1920s. From Portland’s Bureau of Transportation.
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Then and now: SW Washington and 6th, Portland
Morrison Bridge and downtown Portland at night, 1958
Broadway, then and now
Barclay Building, Oregon City
Then and now. Currently houses Mi Famiglia Pizza.
Portland’s radical past
Author Michael Munk is releasing the second edition of his Portland Red Guide and has graciously written up a few blurbs on some of Portland’s more interesting historical tidbits of our progressive past. Here are some sites and stories from the new edition. Radicals in Portland celebrated the Allied victory over fascism in 1945 like… Read More Portland’s radical past
Documentary on Northeast PDX gentrification
Demolition of structures for Unthank Park in 1966. I got the chance to meet Cornelius Swart over coffee yesterday. The former publisher of The Sentinel, he’s currently running the Oregonian News Network, a new program from the Oregonian to connect with Oregon bloggers. During our conversation he mentioned a previous project he worked on: co-producing… Read More Documentary on Northeast PDX gentrification
Woody Guthrie in the Pacific Northwest: the Lost Songs
Seventy years ago, folksinger Woody Guthrie spent one month in the Northwest traveling up and down the Columbia River writing songs for the Bonneville Power Administration. The songs he wrote during that short stay in 1941 still resonate in the Northwest and compel us to claim Guthrie for our own. While his most famous song… Read More Woody Guthrie in the Pacific Northwest: the Lost Songs
Lost Oregon 