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More from the 1972 McGovern rally
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 a… more →
Lost Oregon
More from the 1972 McGovern rally
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schlockstar wrote 2 days ago: Thomas Rutter from Photomic [his photo blog - check it out] graciously let me post a couple of photo … more →
Vic Coburn, used car salesman/faith healer
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schlockstar wrote 1 week ago: Witness with your own eyes God’s Authentic Healing Power! Where? KPTV, Sunday, at midnight! Co … more →
Anti-Vietnam War/McGovern Rally, 1972
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schlockstar wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve written about my killer score of finding Portland’s underground newspaper, The Scri … more →
[pdx] PDX Street Sign Shop, Ca. 1916
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 1 month ago: 2240.Fellow street sign blogger Eric Fischer, whose San Francisco work I’ve praised, has done … more →
African-American History Exhibit Celebration October 22
Trace Salmon wrote 1 month ago: On Thursday, October 22nd, Central City Concern will host an “unveiling” celebration for a newly ins … more →
Use, use & re-use: Leftbank Building
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schlockstar wrote 1 month ago: Photo of the Hazelwood Building, courtesy of Leftbank. On a recent taping of Outlook Portland [along … more →
[pdx] Stark Street Milepost P13 …
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 1 month ago: 2237.… atul666 can haz it, in Gresham: … it’s that little obelisk by the sign post. Probably k … more →
[pdx] More Portland Milestones
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 1 month ago: 2220.As pointed out by Cyclotram’s Atul666 in the previous post’s comments, there are mo … more →
[pdx] The Stark Street Milestones
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 2 months ago: 2219.Some time ago I fancied going out and finding milestones along SE Stark Street. The one I found … more →
N/NE Portland History Lectures
Trace Salmon wrote 2 months ago: Portland Center Stage presents a lecture and a discussion about race, class, culture and progress in … more →
[pdx] The Interstate Bridges From See Level
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 2 months ago: 2213.Take a walk with Cyclotram’s atul666: And read all about it here. A very close and needfu … more →
Where have you gone, Allison LaRue?
schlockstar wrote 2 months ago: I love getting emails like this. Last week, I heard from Apricot Irving from the Boise Voices projec … more →
[pdx] The Powell's City Of Books Uncertainty Principle
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 3 months ago: 2198.The Powell’s City Of Books Uncertainty Principle states, quite simply, this: regardless o … more →
[pdx] A Preview Ride On The MAX Green Line
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 3 months ago: 2193.On Monday, me and The Wife™ and hundreds of our closest friends got a taste of what using the n … more →
[pdx] Hawthorne: Tales Of Typographic Boulevards
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 3 months ago: 2188.Portland’s Hawthorne Blvd, at about 7PM, on an overcast, famously-Oregon summer evening: … more →
[pdx] The Way Burgerville Rolls, Part 2
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 4 months ago: 2163.Leave it to Burgerville USA to realize the potential of the so-called “roach coach” … more →
[type] Semi-Covered-Over Type on Building at SW 17th And West Burnside
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 4 months ago: 2155.Seen on a walk today: SW 17th and West Burnside. I think Dimitri’s Greek nighclub is or w … more →
Another New Street Blade – On E Burnside
Samuel John Klein Portlandiensis wrote 4 months ago: 2148.One of the street blades we were out to get yesterday I missed putting in the big post a couple … more →
The Palais Royale Ballroom: Where They Danced for Joy
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schlockstar wrote 5 months ago: A couple weeks ago I received an email from Cherie Cheney Nomura who mentioned that her father, Ed C … more →
