Portland Civic Theatre was at the forefront of a transitional movement for theater companies in American cities during the 1910s and 1920s. Live theater was …

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In response to perceived Cold War threats, on February 20, 1950, Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee appointed Charles Pray as Portland’s first director of Civil …

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Portland's commission form of municipal government, which the city adopted as a progressive innovation in 1913, was a rarity and relic by the twenty-first …

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Portland Community College (PCC) is the largest institution of higher education in Oregon. Serving the Portland area since 1961 as an adult education extension of …

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The Portland Free Dispensary, an early effort to provide health services to the underserved in Portland, was a model of collaboration between the city’s …

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The Portland Gay Men's Chorus (PGMC) was founded in April 1980 to perform a concert as part of that year's local Gay Pride Festival. Twenty …

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The Portland Hotel (originally called the Hotel Portland), a project initiated by Henry Villard and the Northern Pacific Railroad, was designed in 1882-1883 and …

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Portland has used two locations for its major commercial airport—Swan Island from 1927 to 1940 and the floodplain of the Columbia River since 1940. …

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For more than forty-five years, the Portland Japanese Garden has offered a personal encounter with Japanese culture and a tranquil experience that celebrates the natural …

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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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