Barclay Building, Oregon City
Then and now. Currently houses Mi Famiglia Pizza.
Cool event alert: Free film on Skidmore District
Public History Graduates (PHiG) is screening Lens on the Community, a series of free public programs presenting films from the Center for the Moving Image (CMI) from the Tom T. Taylor collection at the Portland State Library. These films that represent, interpret, and shape the distinct communities that constitute the greater Portland metropolitan area. The… Read More Cool event alert: Free film on Skidmore District
If old Oregon postcards were Smiths’ songs (or lyrics)
(aka, a reason to group unrelated cards under one post) How Soon is Now? (Amato’s Portland, Ore.) You Just Haven’t Earned It, Baby (Horseshoe Motel, Florence) Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Jack’s Fine Foods, Biggs The Dalles ). Click here for a more recent (1997) view. I need advice…I need advice…nobody ever looks… Read More If old Oregon postcards were Smiths’ songs (or lyrics)
Photo: Newport lighthouse, then and now
Basement bar history lesson
Come hang out with the Kick Ass Oregon gang and artist Jim Hill as they discuss Danford Balch, the first man executed in the state of Oregon back in 1859, at the newly christened Jack London Bar. The Jack London Bar, located beneath the Rialto, is self-described as a remodeled old betting parlor that has… Read More Basement bar history lesson
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 