A reader of Lost Oregon sent the following to me. Any clue to where this once stood or if in fact it was ever built? I just purchased this very cool neon sign design proposal / rendering [see above] at Hawthorne Vintage and am trying to find out more information about the building / business… Read More The Clock – what era?
A couple of cool events coming up that warrant some mention: At 7 p.m. Feb. 22, PSU professor Carl Abbott and Thomas Robinson of Historic Photo Archives will talk about “Renewal and Removal in North/Northeast Portland” as part of the History Pub sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society and the Holy Names Heritage Center. The session… Read More Nerd alerts
Remember when ads used to be long-form, almost essay-like? Championed by Ogilvy and often utilized by ad agencies throughout the 1970s [coke-fueled art directors must have loved working on them] well into the 90s, these types of ads actually took some time to, you know, read. Back when there was time to relax with a… Read More Thunderbird/Red Lion 1977
Wow. We’ve come a long way baby, or, I’m actually going somewhere with this post. Recent score I picked up: The Greater Portland Guide to Greater Beers. Published in 1983, the booklet listed a total of 15 restaurants and pubs in the greater Portland area [including one in Vancouver] serving beers on tap that didn’t… Read More Portland beer scene, 1983
Ellis Lucia, photojournalist and author of “The Big Blow” and “Don’t Call It Or-e-gawn” released “Wild Water” in 1965 to commemorate flooding, frigid temps that took place on the Pacific Slope in December of 1964. Following are some of the photos that illustrate the destruction. The new John Day Bridge was ripped away, causing three… Read More Christmas Week Floods, 1964
Thomas Rutter from Photomic [his photo blog – check it out] graciously let me post a couple of photos of the same pro-McGovern rally I scanned from The Scribe a couple posts back. He took the photos as part of a photo-journalism course he was taking that year at PSU. It was the first year… Read More More from the 1972 McGovern rally
The good people at the Mid Century Modern League are presenting “Charles Phoenix’s Retro Holiday Slide Show” next month. From the press release: Pop Culture Humorist and Author Charles Phoenix brings his live holiday slide show performance to The Hollywood Theater one night only, December 29. In this hilarious Holiday show you’ll see how Americans… Read More Can’t deal with the holidays? Make fun of them!
I’ve written about my killer score of finding Portland’s underground newspaper, The Scribe. Here are some photos scanned from the October 12-23, 1972 issue about an anti-war, anti-Nixon, pro-McGovern protest. The turnout wasn’t as high as organizers had wanted or planned. There was a reference to a violent demonstration in May that might have kept… Read More Anti-Vietnam War/McGovern Rally, 1972
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