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Portland Marathon
In November 1972, the first Portland Marathon attracted 86 marathoners (and about the same number of "half-marathoners") to a course on Sauvie Island, a flat …
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Portland Open Space Sequence (Lovejoy Plaza, Pettygrove Park, Ira Keller Fountain)
Portland Center, a district within the South Portland Urban Renewal Project, was designed in the 1960s as a “city within a city.” The city set …
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Portland Paramount Theatre/Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
The Portland Paramount Theatre once dominated the city’s Great White Way, a series of brightly lit cinemas that dazzled downtowners along Southwest Broadway Street. The …
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Portland Park Blocks
While America's premier landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, traveled the country in the mid-nineteenth century, encouraging mayors and town councils to add parks to their …
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Portland Penny
The Portland Penny is an 1835 American copper penny that was used in an 1845 coin toss to name the new town of Portland. …
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Portland Professional Wrestling
In July 1883, the Oregonian announced a “grand athletic tourney” at Portland's Mechanics Arena. Among other activities, “the sciences of Greco-Roman and Scotch back-hold …
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Portland Public Market
Designated "market squares" were once common in American city plans, and Portland's 1853 plat identified two blocks that served this purpose. One of those …
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Portland Public Market and Downtown
In this 1933 photo, the newly constructed Portland Public Market, located along Southwest Front Street, stands out in the lower right-hand corner. During the 1920s, …
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Portland Railway Company Car
This 1905 photograph shows a Portland Railway Company car at the NW 26th Avenue and NW Upshur Street entrance of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, …
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Portland Railway Light and Power
Portland Railway Light & Power (PRLP) was created in 1906 through the consolidation of nearly every transportation and power generation utility between Vancouver, Washington, and …
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