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Cesar Chavez? The boxer?

June 26, 2009

As you may or may not know, here in Port­land there is a move­ment to rename some­thing to Cesar Chavez Blvd.  As best as I can tell — mainly from friends, the web­site save39th.com, and its cor­re­spond­ing twit­ter account — The Cesar Chavez Boule­vard Renam­ing Com­mit­tee is a group of peo­ple with a lot of […]

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The neighborhood, then and now

April 7, 2008

I am not sure what prompted me, but I thought I’d look for his­toric pho­tos of the neigh­bor­hood in the Port­land Archives.  Unfor­tu­nately, the full archives are only open 10–4 M-F, which are hours that do not work for me.  For­tu­nately, they have a sub­set of their mate­r­ial online as some­thing called Efiles.  I was […]

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