On the Road With T-
Day 2: PDX-Newport
Oregon: Pop 4,246,155
Helpful U of O bumper sticker pronunciation guide (with OSU colors added so as to be non-partisan). BTW, according to Wiki, our official language is not English, but Northwest English.
Portland Metropolitan Area: Pop 2,512,859
Portland: Pop 652,503
Asa Lovejoy won the coin toss. Had Francis Pettygrove won we would be driving through Boston, Oregon instead of Portland. The Portland Penny
Portland, having 12 Bridges, is called Bridge City. Above is Tilikum Crossing A.K.A. “Bridge of the People" because only pedestrians, bikers, and public transit vehicles are allowed on it.
We'll be driving over the Hawthorne Bridge, the oldest bridge in Portland. It is a vertical-lift bridge built in 1910.
The Hawthorne Bridge Replaced the Madison Street Bridge.
March 1908 log jam on the Madison Street Bridge.
Portland is also called Stumptown. It was said to have more stumps than trees in the early 1850s
Portland, according to the show Portlandia, is where young people go to retire. Portlanders say the show sometimes seems more like a documentary than a comedy.
The poster of Bud Clark that hung in my college apartment in 1978. Clark was Portland's mayor from 1985 to 1992.
Oregon's Portland's Mill Ends Park is the world's smallest park according to the Guinness Book of World Records
We don't pump our own gas in Oregon. The reasons are weird.
Oregon has no sales tax.
Native Americans, Fort Vancouver, & The Hudson Bay Company
A Chinook Traveling Lodge
Chief Kiesno
Chinook Jargon
Spring Fishing on the Falls
Fort Vancouver
Dr. John McLoughlin
Marguerite McLoughlin
Coffee, Wine, Beer, the Bottle Bill, & Glass Balls Made from Bottles
Even in Portland Civet Coffee is considered weird.
The Doerner family has tended their vineyards for five generation in the Umpqua Valley
Oregon Hop Growers in 1859
Governor McCall in 1970 before speaking at a bottler’s convention where he urged the industry to use returnable containers.
Glass Floats and nets on a Fishing Boat
Lincoln City: POP 9,815
In 1965 five cities consolidated to become what is now Lincoln City. Surfland was the top vote getter in a name the new city contest, but the powers that be thought that sounded too “honky-tonk."
Whale Cove
Is Whale Cove the actual place Sir Francis Drake named New Albion in 1579?
Depoe Bay: Pop 1,398
Greetings from Sam
I hope you're doing OK, Mom. Remember, when you get nervous you talk fast and forget to breath. Breath, Mom, OK. Breath.