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tag:www.pdxmonthly.com,2005:/news-and-profiles/history/feed History 2015-08-24T08:00:00-07:00 tag:www.pdxmonthly.com,2005:Article/12734 2015-08-24T08:00:00-07:00 2015-08-24T08:00:00-07:00 5 Things About James Beard, Portland's Original Foodie

Image: Paul Child

1) THE ETHOS

"To entertain successfully, one must first of all pay attention to his cookery, but food should look as well as taste good. Put on a fine show! Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands." —Delights and Prejudices, 1964

2) THE LEGACY

Beth Federici, the Portland director of America's First Foodie: The Incredible Life of James Beard (premiering spring 2016):

"He was really one of the pioneers of the food revolution. Many of the things we take for granted today—like the farm-to-table movement—were spearheaded by James Beard. When Julia Child moved [back to the US] in the 1960s after she mastered the art of French cooking, she said, 'I want to meet James Beard.' She is the one that said, 'In the beginning, there was Beard.'

He was the first chef on television, in 1946. He was always one step ahead of the game. And he was six-foot-three, 300 pounds. He wasn't a slight, effeminate guy. All of a sudden people started to hear a male voice, and it gave men permission to be interested in food, too.

He was out there like a lone wolf for so long, touting American food, American produce, at a time when everything was French and Italian. There was a huge farmers market here in Portland. His mother knew all the farmers and they would even save all the best stuff for her. That's why he was always professing to people, 'Why do we keep touting quince and jams from England, when we make incredible jam?'"

3) Résumé

1903 Born in Portland

1922 Expelled from Reed College for having an affair with a male professor

1937 Moves to New York City to pursue theater

1946 Becomes the first TV chef with I Love to Eat on NBC

1955 Establishes a cooking school in NYC and Seaside, Oregon

1976 Receives an honorary degree from Reed

1983 Publishes Beard on Pasta, his 22nd and final cookbook

1985 Dies at age 81. His ashes are scattered in Gearhart.

1991 The James Beard Foundation's first awards for excellence in food

Image: Pim

4) CONSIDER THE ONION

Beard once said: "I can easily make a whole meal of onion sandwiches, for to me they are one of the greatest treats I know." At Northeast Portland's Expatriate, the James Beard Butter and Onion Sandwich consists of fluffy white bread, butter, thinly sliced sweet onions, gray salt, and parsley. (The James Beard Foundation offers a recipe that subs mayo for butter.) "He had a couple recipes for it," says Expatriate's Kyle Linden Webster. "Ours is purely butter."

5) THE SHRINE

A conceptual rendering, from prestigious Norwegian design firm Snøhetta and local partners, of what Portland's James Beard Public Market could look like. The long-proposed market is currently slated to take shape at the west end of the Morrison Bridge.

Image: Snohetta

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Combination bloomers (left): An "open combination," circa 1900. Combinations were camisoles and drawers combined into one garment. Evening gown (middle): This embellished silk and lace gown belonged to Bessie Bigelow Conant of Boston, Massachusetts, and is in a style typical of 1910. Duster Jacket (right): Tailor Harry Sherman made this wool and velvet jacket for his daughter, Molly, in 1908 when she became engaged to marry.

Through November, lovers of deep retro can get an intimate look at the fashions of the 19th Century at the Pittock Mansion, as the former home of Oregonian newspaper magnate Henry Pittock hosts Ball Gowns to Bloomers: Spotlight on the Clothing Collection. The show features ball gowns, petticoats, bloomers (100-year-old underwear!), and a rare sighting of a man's cane and top hat. The display completes the publicly open historic home's longstanding illusion of walking through the life of the Pittocks, and their peers among Portland's founders, like the Couch family and the Failings.

It's easy to imagine Georgiana Pittock lounging in her drawing or music room in one of her cotton "house dresses," or meeting guests in the finely appointed foyer wearing a tailored coat of the era. Some items on display were actually worn by the Pittocks, but most serve as a representation of the era: a closer look into the daily lives of the people who created, took care of, and wore them. The exhibit shows changes in fashion and ideal body type (from voluptuous to curveless); the shift from custom to ready-to-wear clothing; and the work that went into wearing, creating, and cleaning the clothing. One portion of the exhibit even includes a multi-page spread in the magazine that was the Good Housekeeping of the era, all about laundry day.

See? The past wasn't that glamorous. It was good-looking, though.
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Child actors Jeff Cohen, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, and Jonathan Ke Quan

Image: Amblin Entertainment/Warner Bros.

The Goonies, a wacky '80s caper film about lost treasure on the Oregon Coast, somehow still has a cult following. Why do you think the film has endured for so long? The movie is, in an interesting way, of its time. The '80s were a golden era of a certain kind of fantasy film, where the sense of adventure and youth were allowed to exist side by side. People hear the first few bars of the soundtrack, and they're instantly in 1985. Those sounds—that Cyndi Lauper music—the fun we were having. People all over the world have that sense of closeness with The Goonies. It represents their time and their lives, wherever they are.

Why is fun important? The Goonies inoculated itself from criticism by not taking itself too seriously. That's one of the great parts of the collaboration between [producer] Steven Spielberg and [director] Richard Donner. They both had that sense of whimsy. You have things like an octopus scene that gets cut out but still referred to. Me, referring to Josh Brolin's character as "Josh" instead of the character's name. You can hear Richard giggling behind the camera in one scene. It was just fun.

Any memorable behind-the-scenes moments? While we were filming, we did a "Say no to drugs" thing at a basketball game at the local high school. We go down, and there's all these kids screaming and cheering, and hooting and hollering. I don't think any of us were famous yet but, that moment, that was really the first time I felt like a real celebrity. It was an interesting transition for me.

So, tell us, when's the sequel coming? I've always said it should be an animated TV show: the Goonies having a different adventure each week. But I don't think Steven will pull the trigger unless he can recapture the magic. It's hard, because the '80s were such a unique time. You could have space for this sort of thing: adventure, with mystery and magic and campiness. How can you do that now?

How do you see Oregon in relation to the success of The Goonies? I was 12 when we made Goonies. It was obviously incredibly formative to me. As a corollary to Oregonians not being Oregonians without seeing Goonies, I'm not a Goonie if I haven't been to Oregon.
 Newsflash: 1985 was THREE DECADES AGO. Take in this shocking fact during a trip down memory lane. Newsflash: 1985 was THREE DECADES AGO. Take in this shocking fact during a trip down memory lane. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_678,w_678,x_161,y_0/c_limit,w_640/0615-portland-goonies_jkl2m8.jpg INTERVIEW Allison Jones tag:www.pdxmonthly.com,2005:Article/12412 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 Dive Into Portland's Swimsuit History

No, we don't have California's sunbaked beaches or Hawaii's turquoise waves—but a century ago, Portland did launch a swimwear revolution. In 1910, Carl Jantzen founded the Portland Knitting Company with Roy and John Zehntbauer, and in 1913, the Portland Rowing Club asked them to fashion a suit to ward off the Willamette's early-morning chill. Jantzen devised a 100 percent virgin wool knitted "bathing suit"—complete with matching wool knee socks and stocking cap—the precursor to today's swimsuit.

By 1921, the company had changed its name to Jantzen and officially switched its focus from sweaters to swimwear, purchasing three full-page ads in Vogue with a sexy illustrated "diving girl" (top right). The gambit paid off. At its peak in the late 1950s, Jantzen ran 18 design houses worldwide, churning out "International Set" collections, with France's legendary Hubert de Givenchy contributing designs.

Though Perry Ellis bought out Jantzen in 2002, Portland's swimwear legacy survives. In 1999, Pamela Levenson began making suits at home. By 2006 she opened Popina Swimwear (originally Poppi Swim) with her husband, Will. The company now sells selections from Tommy Bahama, Speedo, and (yes!) Jantzen, complementing Popina's own classic, locally manufactured cuts with extra bust support.

"Maybe because we cover up 90 percent of the year," says Levenson, "Portlanders are not prepared to wear the same suits as Miami."

Local designers are still trading on our aquatic fashion history. At February's Fade to Light fashion show, Project Runway winner Michelle Lesniak debuted a spring/summer line including whimsical printed suits, while Hawthorne boutique Altar offers vintage-inspired one- and two-piece suits as part of its new, customizable house line. "Besides what we will have on the sales floor, we are set up to take measurements for our customers and make their suits fit—perfectly," says Altar's Cassie Ridgway.

The revival of those fetching wool socks and cap has yet to catch on, but here's hoping.

Want more swimspiration? Check out our gallery of perfect swimsuits for any summer activity!
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Image: Michael Byers

Forty years after a small, brave group marked the Rose City's first public Gay Pride celebration, the Portland Pride Festival has become summer's unofficial kickoff: a colossal street party open to all. As we approach this year's fête (June 13–14), we look back on four colorful decades of Pride: a powerful journey toward the freedom to love and live.*

1975 About 200 people attend Portland's first outdoor public Gay Pride celebration, in the South Park Blocks near Portland State University.

1976 Anne and Bill Shepherd and Charles and Rita Knapp launch Parents of Gays (POG), later to become the Portland chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Portland. They set up a table at the Gay Pride rally.

1976 Lesbian activist Kathleen Saadat organizes Portland's first Gay Pride march.

1977 Portland Mayor Neil Goldschmidt issues a proclamation for Gay Pride Day.

1980 Mark Richards, Mark Jones, and Gary Coleman form the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, which performs its first concert at Pride.

1982 Portlanders Terry Bean, Jerry Weller, John Baker, Keeston Lowery, and Dana Weinstein start a new political fundraising organization called Right to Privacy (later called Right to Pride).

1983 Two years after the first reported case of AIDS in Oregon, Reese House, Brown MacDonald, and others form Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) to support gay and bisexual men affected by HIV and AIDS.

1983 Just Out publishes its first issue.

1984 Bud Clark, a strong straight ally of the gay community, is elected mayor. He campaigns and celebrates at the Dirty Duck, a gay bar.

1985 Newly elected Oregon Secretary of State Barbara Roberts requests the Portland Gay Men's Chorus sing at her inauguration.

1987 Lady Elaine Peacock hosts the first of many "Peacock in the Park" drag pageants in Washington Park. The event raises money for Audria M. Edwards Youth Scholarship Fund.

1989 The first LGBT-sponsored float appears in the Rose Festival's Starlight Parade.

1991 Gail Shibley becomes the first openly gay person to serve in the Oregon House of Representatives.

1992 Conservative Christian political organization the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) sponsors Measure 9, the first of many initiatives to amend the Oregon Constitution to prevent "special rights" for homosexuals and bisexuals. The measure fails, and groups formed in opposition become the basis for the next two decades of the state's LGBT rights movement.

1994 Portland's Lesbian Avengers stage the city's first-ever Dyke March.

1996 Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is incorporated after evolving from an organization that formed to oppose Measure 13, another anti-LGBT ballot measure promoted by the OCA.

1996 Chastity Bono serves as the Pride parade's grand marshal.

1998 In Tanner v. OHSU, the Oregon Court of Appeals rules that all state and local governments must offer spousal benefits to same-sex domestic partners. (The ruling also prohibits private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring,
 firing, and pay.)

2003 Rives Kistler is appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court, becoming the first openly gay state supreme court justice in the United States.

2004 The Defense of Marriage Coalition's Measure 36 passes, amending the Oregon Constitution with the following text: "It is the policy of Oregon, and its political subdivisions, that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or legally recognized as a marriage."

2004 Sam Adams is elected to Portland City Council. He is the first openly gay person elected to a public office of the City of Portland.

2005 A group of community activists, including Adams, help to incorporate the LGBTQ Community Center Fund—now known as Q Center—to provide a safe space to support and celebrate LGBT diversity,
 equity, and visibility.

2008 Democrat Kate Brown, who identifies as bisexual, is elected Oregon Secretary of State.

2008 Adams is elected mayor of Portland, making Portland the largest city up to that time to elect an openly gay mayor.

2008 Stu Rasmussen, who is transgender, is elected mayor of nearby Silverton, Oregon.

2009 PFLAG Portland Black Chapter becomes the first PFLAG chapter in the country created by and for the black/African American community.

2012 Oregon Representative Tina Kotek becomes Speaker of the House—the first openly lesbian leader of a state legislative chamber anywhere in the US.

2013 Gov. John Kitzhaber signs House Bill 2093, making Oregon one of a handful of states to remove the surgery requirement for transgender Oregonians seeking a change on their birth certificate.

2013 The Portland Thorns, Timbers, and Trail Blazers make history by becoming the first major pro sports teams to endorse a campaign for the freedom to marry.

2014 The Pride Festival hosts its first official Portland Trans March.

2014 US District Court Judge Michael McShane issues his decision in consolidated case Geiger v. Kitzhaber, ruling that Oregon's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional—the same day, plaintiffs Deanna Geiger and Janine Nelson become the first same-sex couple to wed with the court's backing in Oregon.

2015 Kate Brown becomes Oregon's second female governor, and the first openly bisexual governor in US history.

*This timeline is largely drawn from the work of the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN), housed at the Oregon Historical Society and glapn.org.

Did we miss anything? Please help us add to our timeline in the comments below!
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How many flips of an 1835 copper penny did it take for Asa Lovejoy and Frances Pettygrove to name our city?
 How many flips of an 1835 copper penny did it take for Asa Lovejoy and Frances Pettygrove to name our city? How many flips of an 1835 copper penny did it take for Asa Lovejoy and Frances Pettygrove to name our city? http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_300,w_300,x_0,y_0/c_limit,w_640/1845-copper-penny_kdf4id.jpg 1845-2013 Allison Jones tag:www.pdxmonthly.com,2005:Article/10539 2015-04-07T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-07T10:00:00-07:00 Will Portland's Historic Houses Survive the Wrecking Ball?

The Markham House, as seen in a vintage real estate sales brochure.

Image: CJ Hurley Century Arts

For months, the 1911 California Mission–style house at the corner of Northeast 32nd Avenue and Glisan Street sat vacant and silent. Last summer, neighbors in historic Laurelhurst learned that its new owner, a developer named Peter Kusyk, planned to tear it down. And suddenly, the Markham House had everyone's attention.

In some ways, the Markham was an obvious landfill candidate. It was built largely for show, its stucco exterior, red-gabled roof, and looming, faux-Spanish towers designed to lure Portlanders weary of central-city grime and bustle to Laurelhurst's then-suburban frontiers. The 5,000-square-foot house initially served as a real estate sales office, and as charming as it appears from outside, the interior is something of a design disaster. The formal living room's high ceilings and intricate moldings are elegant enough, but two other ground-level rooms are cramped and miserable. The kitchen is dated and isolated. Five-and-a-half-foot ceilings render the sizable second story basically useless. The basement is dank and weird.

Kusyk planned to replace the Markham with two new buildings, each likely to sell for more than the $467,000 he'd paid for the property. The plan fit a trend: in recent years, Portland developers have ripped down one old Portland house after another to build bigger and, in some cases, denser. Residential demolitions in Portland hit 308 in 2014, up from 273 the year before. Preservationists worry that tearing down venerable structures (and, often, the mature trees that surround them) chips away at the city's historic identity and treasured neighborhood fabric. But there isn't much, in most cases, that can be done to stop or even slow these demolitions. Projects have often unfolded quickly, with transactions finalized and permits issued before opposition can mobilize.

After Kusyk filed for a demolition permit in June 2014, a coalition of Laurelhurst neighbors launched a fundraising campaign, hoping to buy and save the house. (Kusyk wanted $700,000—much more than he'd paid, but also enough to cover an undisclosed amount he'd spent to clear liens on the property.) They also scrambled to recruit someone who could take charge of saving the house and found a champion in John McCulloch, a fifth-generation Portlander and professional designer/builder who restores old homes. He makes his living doing so, of course, but says he's also motivated by community pride and a love of challenges. And the Markham looked quite the challenge.

"The house is a ruin," McCulloch informed neighbors. "The stucco is falling off. Some has been replaced with foam stucco that is worse. The roof leaks. Every door and window, wall, ceiling, and floor is shot ... [and] it seems that every architect, homeowner, and contractor who has ever touched the house made it worse in ridiculous ways."

Nor did the math look good. McCulloch estimated that he would need to spend about $400,000 to make the Markham livable, which meant he would eventually have to sell the house for $1.1 million just to break even. But he haggled with Kusyk, a veteran local developer who didn't respond to interview requests for this story. Neighbors crowd-funded $35,000. Three days before Christmas, Kusyk sold to McCulloch. Laurelhurst had prevailed, and the history buff had his challenge.

"It never worked—it was never loved, so it fell into disrepair," McCulloch said as he surveyed the house last summer. "This is going to be really tricky."

Converging factors produced Portland's demolition spike. Intense demand for core-neighborhood housing reflects the national population influx into urban centers after the 2008 real estate crash, for example. But above all, the trend is a largely unintended consequence of Portland's urban planning priorities. "When you combine codes that promote density with lax historic preservation laws," says Brian Libby, a Portland journalist who blogs about architecture, "this is what you get."

Last year, at roughly the same time McCulloch moved to save the Markham, Google executive Kevin Rose bought an 1892 house in Willamette Heights and announced plans to tear it down. The affluent neighborhood united and pressured Rose to sell, amid an uproar that garnered national coverage. But relatively few old houses attract such potent constituencies, and demolition is becoming the rule rather than the exception. In Northeast's Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood, for example, a developer purchased a 3,500-square-foot 1949 home for $725,000 in October 2013, tore it down, and is building two homes in its place. (At the time of this writing, prices had not been posted, but new homes in the area sell for a median price of $765,950.) In nearby Sabin, a 1924 single-story house sold for $290,000 in 2012, doubled in size via a "remodel," and sold for $754,000 the following year. And last year, Portland developer Mark Madden tore down the 1884 John Bridges House in Goose Hollow, above the objections of neighbors and other activists. He plans an 18-unit apartment building on the site.

The trend is particularly visible in the inner-east-side neighborhoods that historically housed Portland's working classes in modest single-family homes, and which now define the city's modern urban appeal. Angst is growing—yard signs with the slogan "Stop the Demolition of Portland Homes" have begun to proliferate.

Ken Forcier and his wife moved from the Bay Area to Northeast's Concordia neighborhood seven years ago, delighted to find a walkable district rich in character. The couple has watched in dismay as one lot after another transforms into "skinny" houses and supersize faux-retro bungalows.

"Skinny houses are resulting in the cutting down of old trees and the filling in of the side yards and gardens," Forcier says. "This bad architecture is embraced with such zeal that it has resulted in my neighborhood effectively being rezoned."

Forcier burrowed into city code. He discovered that developers often use a quirk of decades-old zoning to turn 5,000-square-foot lots (which distinguish neighborhoods as "R5" in zoning parlance) into twin 2,500-square-foot lots ("R2.5"). He argues that the practice has become so widespread that it amounts to a fundamental change in certain areas of the city.

"I bought in an R5 neighborhood," Forcier says. "Nobody asked me to change that. That's the city letting me down."

Aside from the splitting of lots, the demolition wave has revealed a flaw in Portland's vaunted urban planning, which is largely built around the goal of increasing central-city density. Demolitions may be clearing the way for some skinny houses, but overall they're not doing much to foster density. Of the 279 residential demolitions in 2013, for example, only about 30 percent resulted in additional housing units. In other words, most old Portland homes that get torn down are simply replaced by brand-new single-family houses.

Preservation advocates believe that all this warrants thorough debate and, they hope, new policies. "I think this snuck up on the public," Libby says. "Hopefully people are awake to the issue now."

Not every house that's been around for a while is a "historic" house, but the sheer number of older homes here has become a key part of Portland's identity. Local architectural historian James Heuer points out that in the early 1900s, Portland was the fastest-growing city in the US, making for a huge amount of inner-city construction that's now a century old. "Our percentage of structures over 50 years old is comparable to Chicago and Baltimore," he says.

In February, after considerable pressure from activists, some of whom have banded to together under the name United Neighborhoods for Reform, the city council unanimously approved some reforms to the demolition permitting process. All demolitions are subject to a 35-day delay, but new measures make it easier for neighborhood associations to request further postponement. Many preservationists would like to see a mandatory 120-day wait for houses more than 50 years old. Other potential council moves—increased fees, salvage requirements—will almost certainly be on the table this year.

The city's Historic Resources Inventory, created in 1983 but seldom updated, could be fleshed out to give neighbors more ammunition in arguing to save homes not currently designated as officially historic. Meanwhile, state law currently requires only a property owner's consent to strip a home of historic status—that could change. Forcier wants an end to R2.5-style building in R5 neighborhoods. Some advocates hope that the popularity of accessory dwelling units could allow more property owners to add density and value without completely sacrificing old homes.

"There may not be a global solution, but there's way more that we can do than fighting it house by house," Libby says. "Things are out of balance. But they're fixable."

While the potential solutions may be intricate, the argument is simple. Portland needs to react to its current (and, as far as can be foreseen) ongoing growth with a newfound respect for one characteristic that helps make this town so special: its past.

To walk the Markham House with McCulloch at the outset of his project was to glimpse the complexity of the undertaking. Towers on the roof cut this way and that. To make it work, McCulloch planned to raise the whole roof a foot or so, piece by piece, and then set it all back down again. He likes the challenge of this kind of job.

"I see this house as my gift to Portland," he says, "a way to have some legacy here."

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How did you end up writing a book about a board game?
 I was writing about business and finance at the Wall Street Journal in 2009. You remember: things were very depressing. I had grown up playing a lot of games and video games. I grew up in Eugene, where it was cold and rainy. I was going to have a throwaway line in a story about how Monopoly was invented during the Great Depression. I kept looking around [at the history], and it wasn't adding up.

So what's the real story?
 Most people think Monopoly was invented by a guy in the Great Depression, this man Charles Darrow. But the history starts far earlier. It was invented by a woman named Lizzie Magie in 1904. And her game spread pretty extensively among left-wing intellectuals, especially in the Northeast. A version of that game was sold to Parker Brothers.

How was her original game different?
 Early Monopoly was called the Landlord's Game. Magie created it as a protest against the monopolists of her time. She was an impassioned follower of [Progressive Era economist] Henry George, who was talking about income inequality. So she used her game as a teaching tool to teach people about the evils of monopolies.

How did we end up with our version?
 Lizzie Magie's original game had two rules sets: a monopolists' rule set and an anti-monopolists rule set. And I've always wondered why the monopolists' rule set took off. Maybe because in real life, most of us can't be tycoons crushing people, let alone our friends and family. It's very ironic to me that something that was intended to be one thing ended up as its total opposite. We can't blame Lizzie for all of that. The game has very much evolved as we have played it.
 Mary Pilon on her new book,  The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game Mary Pilon on her new book,  The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_569,w_569,x_16,y_0/c_limit,w_640/042015_marypilon_djbsvp.jpg INTERVIEW Allison Jones tag:www.pdxmonthly.com,2005:Article/10489 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 The Story of Washington High School's Boom, Bust, and Rebirth as Revolution Hall

Alialujah Choir, a Portland indie-folk band, warms up for the February soft opening of Revolution Hall.

Image: Leah Nash

Washington High School, for decades a shuttered and forlorn landmark of the inner east side, begins new life this year as Revolution Hall, a state-of-the-art, 830-seat music and theater venue. Besides reanimating a century-old building—which also now holds an eclectic collection of retail and office spaces—Revolution aims to fill a gap in the local music market. "There just aren't many venues with this kind of capacity," says events coordinator Rachel Coddington. "You have the small theaters, and then the Schnitz. Revolution Hall will allow for performances by artists who have reached a certain level of popularity."

Meanwhile, the building's long history tells a tale of its own—of the east side's explosive early growth, '70s doldrums, and current cultural (and property) boom.

Image: Ashley Courtier

1906: Briefly named the East Side School, Washington is Portland's first secondary school on the recently annexed "other" side of the river, built during a decade that sees the city's population more than double.

1917: Future Nobel Prize–winning chemist Linus Pauling quits Washington High at age 16.

1920: James Beard, future culinary icon, graduates.

1922: Washington burns nearly to the ground in a blaze that kills a Portland firefighter.

1924: A new building opens, costing more than $500,000—around $6.7 million today. The Oregonian notes that the school is already "too small" for its 1,826 students.

1928: The boys' basketball team brings home the state championship after a 27–23 game against Medford High School.

1945: The boys' hoops team wins the state title for the second time, beating Oregon City 51–41.

1956–7: The school adds spaces for home economics and shop classes.

1962: Linus Pauling receives both an honorary diploma from the school and the Nobel Peace Prize. (His chemistry Nobel came in 1954.)

1978: The district merges Washington with Monroe High School, an all-girls vocational school.

1981: Portland Public Schools' board votes to close Washington-Monroe High School in the face of falling enrollment districtwide. (The board debates closing as many as three high schools.) About 200 students briefly occupy school district headquarters in protest.

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1983: PPS converts the building into a multiuse facility.

2003: A plan to convert the building to condos falls through.

2005: The building is set up to be a center for refugees of Hurricane Katrina—but none ever arrive.

2009–13: PICA's Time-Based Art Festival uses the building as a performance, exhibition, and party site. The library houses a stage-set version of a national park, classrooms hold dozens of visual art exhibitions, and experimental video art is projected on the exterior walls of the school.

2011: Portland Parks & Recreation makes ambitious plans to convert the building into a community center; the idea never comes to fruition.

2013: The building and property are sold to Venerable Properties for $2 million. Plans for Revolution Hall and the accompanying office and retail spaces take shape.

April 2015: Revolution Hall opens with a slate of performances including Neko Case, the von Trapps, Live Wire, Welcome to Night Vale, Kathleen Hanna, and others.
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1915 City Commissioner Will Daly requires all cabs to list a schedule of rates with the public utilities department and display them clearly for passengers.

1915 Police put a halt to "joyriding"—a common practice where taxicab drivers would pick up unwitting drunkards, drive them around for hours, and force them to pay the fare.

1916 Taxi companies protest the "jitney" system—cheap, largely unlicensed cars operating on predetermined routes—as an unfair form of competition. (Uber before its time?) A series of ordinances outlaws jitneys in Portland.

1928 Following a string of violent brawls between rival cab companies vying for spots at cab stands, police revoke licenses for any drivers caught "fighting on the streets."

1929  Taxi operators suggest the city limit how many cabs there can be—1 per 2,500 people. City commissioners decline, saying they "may as well undertake to limit grocery stores," too.

1939 The city caves and sets a maximum number of cabs at 120.

1941 The city sets the maximum charge for any ride within the city limits at $1. Taxi companies call city commissioners "jokers."

1943 A new "share-the-ride" program established during wartime gas rationing comes under fire from passengers who claim cabs are using it to charge even higher rates than before.

1944 Mayor Earl Riley wants Portland cab drivers to have to display their names and pictures in the car. Cab companies argue this would create "annoyances" for female drivers and begin a long citywide strike.

1953 Seventeen cab drivers are arrested for bootlegging whiskey from the back of their cars.

1978 Under Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, Portland considers deregulating cabs completely to spur competition and decrease fares. Portland's three cab companies protest. "If you open the rates up," one cabbie predicts, "you'll have cab drivers fighting each other in the streets."

1979 Portland creates a cab supervisor position, adopts special flat rates, and allows a fourth cab company to enter the city.

1995 Portland considers new safety rules for cabs, including statewide criminal background checks, limited 14-hour workdays, and age limits on vehicles. Veteran cabbies cry poor: "If I can't make the money I'm making now, I'll leave the business," complains one.

1997 Cheap airport shuttles at PDX gain in popularity. Radio Cab's general manager calls them "parasites." The city's cab supervisor fires back: "Why are [we] protecting the taxi industry at the expense of the public?"
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Historical Traveler Reviews Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites Galveston
Great stay!
We spent two nights at the Casa del Mar at Thanksgiving, and just loved it. The location is great, and the suites were clean, well-maintained, and a great value. Since it was the low season, we paid $69 a night.
The staff was helpful and friendly, the ocean is right across the street, and there are plenty of grocery stores nearby to stock your kitchenette. We would definitely return.
Simply Fabulous
We stayed at the Casa Del Mar for a week this past July. We happened to check in the day before Hurricane Claudette came ashore, and the hotel staff was both informative and matter-of-fact about the necessary evacuation procedures we might need to follow. Fortunately, that didn't become necessary. Our room was immaculate, as were the hotel grounds in general. The pool was slightly cloudy on the day we arrived, but with the beach so close by, that hardly seemed to matter. For such a low price, we were expecting bargain basement accommodations--Casa Del Mar was a very pleasant surprise. We'll definitely stay here again on our next trip to Galveston.
Great alternative to traditional hotel...
Had not visited Galveston in a number of years, so I depended on reviews to help select where to stay. We were very happy with Casa Del Mar-they allowed us to check in several hours early. The rooms were very clean, kitchen stocked well if you want to cook, and lots of towels provided. Will stay on our next trip to Galveston.
A Great Winter Retreat!
We spend a month every winter at Casa Del Mar to escape our cold Canadian winters. We have no complaints at all. The staff have always been kind, courteous and willing to go out of their way to make you feel at home. The rooms are perfect for two people. It's a joy to wake up every morning, have our coffee on the balcony and watch the sun come up over the water. We're looking forward to seeing everyone there again this winter.
Home away from home
My family and I have been going to Casa Del Marfor years! it is the only place in Galveston that we even consider anymore. Lots of room in the condo's we love the fact that they have kitchenettes sure saves us a lot of money. Not to mention that the staff will have you rolling, they are so plesant and greet you like you are one of the family. The rooms are really clean too!
No escape from heat
No Escape From the HeatProblems do happen and I would expect a hotel such as Casa Del Mar to take responsibilty for the comfort of their paying guest!! When we realized our A.C. did not function in our room it was 9:oop.m. Called front desk who said maintenance crew was gone and would bring fans. Fans arrived 45 mins. later as we sweated in our $100.00 room. A clerk and security guard brought the fans and told us that we might could repack our stuff and 4 tired hot kids at 11 p.m. if another room was available. I told them that was not possible, the security guard raised his voice and the other man said the hotel would make it right for us. We had to pay full price for a hot room where we could not sleep even after we had 2 loud fans that kept us up till 3 a.m. until I turned them off in order to sleep a little. The manager not only gave no discount for a malfuntioning room but insulted me for being angry at my experience and tacked on $30.00 extra because she accused us of being a party of 7 instead of 4 when my reservations were for 6 people. When I tried to explain about a visitor one day to our room she took off only $25.00 from our bill and left $5.00 for a visitor coming in the room while we showered. I can only take it up with my credit card company because the manager has the power to charge what ever she desires since she had my credit card number. I feel helpless and highly insulted by the manager of Casa Del Mar on this, our 11th annual trip to Galveston Texas. We were hot in our room and hot under the collar by the treatment we recieved as they feel free to take my money because they had my credit card number. The customer lost and the hotel made sure it didnt lose a penney and even stole $5.00 on top of it!! the customer is not always right at Casa Del Mar-the manager is always right so becareful that you behave and dont demand A.C. if they happen to put you in a room with lack of maintenance because you will pay for thier mistakes .
It smells weird
We went to celebrate our anniversary, and the hotel seemed nice on the outside, but our room smelled of tuna fish. i dont know why. my wife and i just ended up leaving because we just couldnt handle the smell. the staff was rude about the smell. they said that every room smelled like mine and i was just silly.we ended up staying at la quinta, which was a lot cheaper and a lovely hotel... no tuna smell whatsoever.
Parents should have some control of the paid TV programs
We enjoyed the stay in the small unit. One problem: Small children (like 5 years old kids) are easy to use the remote control to "order" the paid TV programs and games. The staff admit that some programs are not suitable for the children, but they still make it so easy for the little ones to "order" them, to make it "user friendly". I think that is actual user unfriendly.
Casa Del Mar
Casa Del Mar was a great place to stay. It is perfect if you have little ones. Lots of room to sleep, kitchen was helpful in the late evenings. A great place to stay with a family or just lots of friends having fun. The beach is across the street and plenty of things to do around. The staff was very friendly and helpful. We will definetly stay again.
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These small condo units are very pleasant and the community is very well maintained. Don't expect a normal sized apartment--think in terms of an efficiency apartment. It's right across Seawall Blvd. from the beach and a pier. We could hear the waves crashing while inside the living room when we had door to the balcony open.
The mamgement there was very friendly and accommodating.
I'll go back.
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We are really learning to be full timers now. The RV is great. It is surprising to not miss the big house or all the stuff, but I honestly have no regrets about giving it all up. We are working ...
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ST. LOUIS — The names of recently injured players dot both the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues lineups.
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews will play their first games after missing time down the stretch. The Blues won't have Patrik Berglund and T.J. Oshie but they'll have several others returning. The big questions are there: how will the recently injured parties react and are they all healthy enough to be playing? We'll see about the former, and guys usually just deal with the latter.
"It's an 82-game grind to get here. It's the playoffs," said Blues forward Brenden Morrow, who had a foot injury late in the regular season. "Once that puck drops, you don't feel the pain."
Everyone plays with something at some point during the postseason. But to start the playoffs coming off injuries could be a little tougher. Some players may not find their pre-injury game right away. Some players will have to shake off some rust. How everyone reacts will be evident soon, as the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues play Game 1 of their first-round series tonight.
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Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko, who suffered a hand injury that required surgery, hasn't played since March 15. Coach Ken Hitchcock praised his young forward for putting in the work to return for Game 1, which is ahead of schedule. But Hitchcock said it's still going to be a challenge.
"He's never played in a playoff game very much and secondly, he's missed a lot of time. We understand that part; but between the training staff and his commitment to conditioning knowing that the injury he had would allow him to play right away, he himself deserves an awful lot of credit," Hitchcock said. "He has worked extra hard to be in the best shape of his life right now, which is going to allow him to keep up at this time of year."
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Kane suffered his left-knee injury on March 19 and worked to get himself ready, although his return comes on schedule. Still, adjustments have to be made; Kane's been skating with a brace for about 10 days now and will probably wear it for a bit. But he said he won't be thinking about it much.
"It's kind of the last thing on my mind when you're out there playing and skating," he said. "It's not like I'm thinking, 'How's my brace feeling?' You're thinking about the play and making the right ones. It's something I have to deal with, but I'm really not worried about it."
Toews wasn't off nearly as long; his left arm/shoulder injury kept him out about two weeks. The Blackhawks captain doesn't look at his injury, or off time from it, as a liability.
"It's helped me prepare for this series and to be ready to play the best hockey I've played all year," he said. "I feel I'm ready to do that."


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Re: Should the USAF take over incompetent NASA?
The problem is that NASA has a big public relations problem. It isn't doing a good job of selling its programs to the American public or the US Congress. It's generated zero public excitement for "Project Constellation" and its engineers are currently squabbling over the best way to return to the moon and Mars. The only people who seem interested are a handfull of science fiction and aerospace enthusiasts and the aerospace contractors who might make some money when they receive NASA business.
We need another Wehrner Von Braun or Willy Ley who will be the public face of the new space program and evangilize it to the American public and congress. We need a showman like Walt Disney to generate public enthusiasm for manned spaceflight like he did in his
television program.
NASA is doing a terrible job of communicating and is not doing a sufficient job to communicate its mission. It needs to sell "Project Constellation." It needs to answer the question why should we go back to the moon and why we should go to Mars. It needs to communicate how "Project Constellation" will benefit the American public or the world. Will "Project Constellation" have a trickle down effect by developing new technologies that will be used to improve the quality of life here on Earth? Will it increase the competiveness of American industry or aerospace?
If NASA does a better job of justifying its existence it might receive bigger budgets from Congress.
At least China says that it is interested in the moon to mine Helium-3 to fuel nuclear fussion reactors to help satisfy future energy needs.
Further, I don't see why manned spaceflight would be of any interest to the U.S. Air Force. What would be the military objective that they would achieve by flying men and women to the moon and to Mars? What interest would they have in robotic probes going to other celestial bodies? Why would they want to operate space telescopes?
The space technology that they might be interested in would be space craft that would allow them global strike capability and bypass the politics of flying through other countrie's airspace. Space technology, such as satellites, doing intelligence gathering. If it wasn't prohibited by treaty, they would be interested in weapons platforms in low Earth orbit that can strike the globe.
Right now, the U.S. Air Force wants F-22
, refueling tankers, a next generation stealth bomber, and unmanned combat aerial vehicles. It doesn't want to spend its time or budget operating "Project Constellation."
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An endangered blue butterfly lives in the sand barrens of western Wisconsin. Its range overlaps almost perfectly with the sand that's become a lucrative part of a boom in natural gas drilling.
And to kill a Karner blue without a permit violates federal law.
But of the dozens of frac sand companies that have descended upon the area, just one, Unimin, has applied to the state Department of Natural Resources to be able to legally destroy Karner blues in its operations, according to David Lentz, who coordinates the agency's Karner blue butterfly habitat conservation plan.
And only four companies have contacted the agency's Bureau of Endangered Resources directly.
"They have to let us know they're there," Lentz said. "And they haven't been."
His concern is that companies' due diligence may not be perfectly diligent.
"Are they in such a rush to get to the gold that they're not going to consider their environmental or regulatory responsibilities, and take that risk?" Lentz asked.
The Karner blue is just one wrinkle in the state's struggle with this fast-moving industry, which has homed in on Wisconsin for the quality of its sand.
Silica sand mined here is used in a drilling process nicknamed "fracking," in which sand, water and chemicals are blasted into wells, creating fissures in the rock and freeing hard-to-reach pockets of oil and natural gas.
"The 'sand boom' took us by surprise," noted state senior geologist Bruce Brown in an October presentation. "Many counties were overwhelmed by mining applications, and the scale of mining has presented problems we haven't dealt with before."
While the state Department of Transportation has been studying the effects of transporting all the sand on the state's roads and rail lines, the DNR has devoted more staff to permits and enforcement. Two staffers are working just on frac sand air pollution permits, two more jobs have been devoted to enforcement, and since September, staffer Tom Woletz's entire job has been coordinating frac sand permits.
As of mid-January, the DNR had counted about 60 mines, 32 plants either operating or being built, and 20 more proposed mines — more than double the 41 mines or plants the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism counted in mid-July. The agency conservatively estimated the state's capacity at more than 12 million tons of sand a year.
Woletz said the agency can't say exactly how many companies are out there and what their status is. They have no centralized industry organization, and they are "very competitive and very secretive" when buying land, he said.
The DNR on Tuesday issued a 43-page summary of the industry's processes, their potential environmental impacts and applicable regulations.
Overall, Woletz said, the industry is "fairly well funded and they are receptive to doing what they need to do as far as permitting and compliance. But they want their permits at business speed," — that is, "tomorrow."
'The people's insect'
It's no coincidence that wherever there's frac sand, the Karner blue may be nearby. This quarter-size, gossamer-blue butterfly lives much of its life on wild lupine, whose blue-purple flowers are a common sight in Wisconsin's sand barrens.
The Karner blue lays its eggs on lupine. In mid-April, the caterpillars crawl up lupine shoots to eat the new leaves. By late May or early June, the adults hatch from their chrysalises to drink flower nectar, mate and lay eggs. The next generation has a mating flight in July.
The federal government declared the Karner blue an endangered species in 1992 because much of its habitat is gone — except in Wisconsin, where lupines are plentiful. A "high probability range" of area deemed at least 50 percent likely to have Karners covers 1.9 million acres and includes parts of 19 counties.
Black River Falls even holds an annual Karner Blue Butterfly Festival.
Lentz calls it "the people's insect."
Just because a mine is in the high-probability Karner blue range doesn't necessarily mean it has butterflies. But it does mean the company should call DNR to ask about them.
Some frac sand mines are simply digging up the sandstone under old sand and gravel mines. Or maybe they bought a corn field where lupine doesn't grow — but on the other hand, an access road to that field may have lots of lupine.
No lupine means no Karners and no worries. If there's lupine, they need to survey for butterflies.
Flying under some companies' radar?
Some mining companies may not know they could be endangering Karner blue habitat.
Mike Caron, director of land use affairs for the Tiller Corp., which is operating a mine in northwest Wisconsin on behalf of Minnesota-based International Energy Partners, said he hadn't thought about the Karner blue until he got a reporter's voicemail about it. Tiller began mining an existing sand and gravel mine for frac sand last summer.
Caron said that in discussions about expanding, he couldn't recall butterflies ever being mentioned. But after calling his environmental consultant, Caron said that if Tiller wants to build into previously undisturbed areas, it will likely survey for lupine.
Calls to several other mines in the high-probability area were not returned.
After the Karner blue was listed as endangered, landowners like utilities and loggers sat down with the DNR for five years to hammer out an unusual statewide habitat conservation plan that industry and conservationists agree has been a success.
The DNR has a federal permit to take butterflies and can extend that permit to its conservation "partners." The 42 partners survey for butterflies, follow protocols during construction or maintenance, maintain habitat on their lands, and pay for the restoration of any habitat that's destroyed.
"It's really been our lifesaver in terms of being able to continue our operation," said Gordon Mouw, certification and resource manager for NewPage Corp., an Ohio-based paper company that used to own thousands of acres in Wisconsin.
Unlike the current conservation partners, sand mines pose the prospect of large-scale habitat destruction.
Lentz said there's room for it.
"If we lose some habitat on frac sand, it's not going to jeopardize the recovery of this species," he said.
But ecologist Lane cautioned that while the science of turning sand pits back into sand barrens has improved, it's far from certain.
"It's not rocket science," she said. "It's far more complicated."
Contact Kate Golden at firstname.lastname@example.com. The nonprofit and nonpartisan Center (WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.


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Welcome to the Best Western Of Murphy
Complimentary breakfast, an outdoor pool and free Wi-Fi await Priceline guests at the Best Western Of Murphy.
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The two-story Best Western Of Murphy has exterior corridors and houses 54 rooms with cable TV, coffeemakers, mini-fridges, safes and free Wi-Fi. Enjoy a complimentary breakfast with Belgian waffles each morning. Make a splash in the seasonal outdoor pool or stretch out and unwind on the sun deck. If you need to stay connected to the office while you're away, via fax or email, visit the business center. The front desk is open around the clock and late check-out is available. Parking is free.
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Located off U.S. 74, the Best Western is three miles north of downtown Murphy and 90 miles south of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The hotel is 12 miles north of the Georgia state line and less than 100 miles southwest of the city of Asheville. Its location places guests within 15 miles of the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, which winds through the Nantahala National Forest. Knoxville International Airport, in Tennessee, is less than 95 miles north.
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Priceline guests praise the Best Western of Murphy for its "very helpful staff" who are "first class," as well as its "close" proximity to downtown Murphy and enjoyable outdoor pool.
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Jerry from Ooltewah, TN
September 17, 2015
Business Traveler
September 17, 2015
Business Traveler
Staff was wonderful and very friendly.
Dated room. Nothing great but nothing bad.
Verified Hotel Guest from Cayce, SC
August 31, 2015
August 31, 2015
Very clean and comfortable. Well maintained.
Room reeked of smoke and had multiple ash trays in the room in spite of having a "no smoking" sign on the room door.
Stanley C from Flagler Beach, FL
July 19, 2015
July 19, 2015
Breakfast rather shabby.
Verified Hotel Guest from Naples, FL
July 18, 2015
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July 18, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Room was clean and nicely decorated
Bathroom was outdated
Dennis from Gilbert, AZ
July 17, 2015
July 17, 2015
evert thiing
Pageant from Charlotte, NC
July 15, 2015
Solo Traveler
July 15, 2015
Solo Traveler
the rooms were clean and the people were nice
location from the road and the way to get there but that has no standing on how great the stay was
Verified Hotel Guest from Mount Olive, AL
July 3, 2015
Solo Traveler
July 3, 2015
Solo Traveler
Comfortable bed
It's fine for the price.
Donald from Victorville, CA
June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015
The staff was awesome
The staff was a we awesome, had to fax important paperwork and they did it without question...
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June 25, 2015
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June 25, 2015
Business Traveler
Close to everything
It is a motel not a hotel
William from Newnan, GA
May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015
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Skin is the covering of all the layers of your body, and the thinnest most layers that is why it needs protection from sun rays and other environmental affects that cause different kinds of deadly diseases and allergies that can harm your skin. In order to overcome these issues and for quick fairness of your skin I am going to discuss some very main elements by which you can easily get fair and glowing skin in no time. Quick fairness of skin is demanding because the part of the skin that is visible to the sun gets tan because most of the people work at day time so it gets very important for them to make their skin fair and glow quickly. Things like cucumber, glycerin and rosewater can make your skin glow and fair quickly and without any side effects. Put some pieces of cucumber in the mixer and then add equal quantities of rosewater and glycerin to it and make a paste not to thin nor thick, then apply it to your face before sleeping and wash it in the morning, you will see that your face will start looking fair and glowing with in a day.
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What is mean by pulps
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should we wash our face in morning with only water or with soap after applying cocumber remedy ?
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