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Barbur Boulevard Motels

Capitol Hill Motel owner Jaylesh “Mike” Patel recently passed away. The Capitol Hill Motel stands as almost the last vestige of Barbur Boulevard’s (in)famous motel row, that once stretched from Burlingame to Tigard. As the automobile became a popular form of travel for vacationers, a new type of business was...

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Multnomah Center

The Plan to Raze Multnomah Given Portland’s ongoing contempt for the History and historic nature of our neighborhood (row houses, six story condos, Multnomah Apartments, single family rezoning for multifamily, denial of Arts Center space for Multnomah Historical), I thought it might be a good time to republish this article...

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DENIED!

  DENIED! Thank you to the two dozen or so of you who wrote and or emailed the Arts Center and/or Commissioner Fish. Email received 3/12/2019. It’s just now that I can post about this without using some extremely colorful language. Dear Tim, Thank you for providing the Request for...

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Isaac Baird

  Did you know that elephants once lived in our area of Southwest Portland, and were marched down Taylors Ferry Road into downtown Portland when they were needed for a circus? Isaac Wilson Baird was one of the nineteenth century’s premiere showmen.  Born in 1848 in Salem, Ohio, Baird began...

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Primrose Street and George Primrose

George H. Primrose, the originator of “Soft Shoe” dancing, was born in London, Ontario, Canada November 12 1852. Primrose’s career began about 1867 in Detroit with McFarland’s Minstrels, at which time he was billed as Master Georgie, the infant clog dancer; subsequently he joined the New Orleans Minstrels. In the...

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Hillsdale Community Church 100th Anniversary

  The Hillsdale Church recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of its congregation. The following text is taken from “A History of Our Church, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary, 1918 – 2018,” prepared by the congregants of the Hillsdale Community Church. In the 1880s, the Hillsdale countryside attracted a number of German-Swiss...