VirtualGlobetrotting: Oregon: Portland

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50,000 square foot mansion never finished
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Mark Wattles, former owner of Hollywood video, had a dream of building one of the largest homes in the country. He tried to build it along the banks of the Willamette river just south of Portland Oregon. He tried but he ultimately failed. At over 50,000 sq. feet it would have in fact been one of the largest homes in the United States. An ongoing problem with the builder and in the end a lack of funding led to the shelving of the project. It was to include a gymnasium, a 4,000 sq. ft. pool, a 19-car garage, and a 10,000 sq. ft. master suite. It's been sitting unfinished since 1997.

Scottie Pippen's House (former)
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This is the $3.7M former mansion of retired NBA star Scottie Pippen in the West Hills area of Portland.
Pippen bought the home in 2000 for about $4M and had to take a major loss on the home, selling it for $2.95M

Airplane home
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132 and Bush ("Cops")
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By: kkeps.
COPS ends each episode on the credits screen since Season 2 (1989-1990), using the line, "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint... Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush, cover's code three." This is a sound clip from a conversation between a Portland, Oregon, police officer and the radio dispatcher during the arrest of a suspect in the 13200 block of SE Bush St.

Johnny Marr's House
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By: tlp333.
The English guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, lives here. He rose to fame in the 1980's as the guitarist in "The Smiths", where he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with "Morrissey". He has been a member of "Modest Mouse" since 2006. In 2008, he joined "The Cribs" after touring with them on 2008's NME Awards Tour. He purchased the 2-bed, 2-bath, 1,738 sq ft home in October of 2007 for $289K, according to public records.

Mo Farah's House
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By: BermudaBreeze.
The Current British 10,000 metres Olympic and World champion and 5000 metres Olympic, World and European champion lives here.

Rasheed Wallace's House
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Stanley C. E. Smith House
1905 SW. Greenwood Rd, Portland, OR
List of Registered Historic Places in Oregon

Stephen Malkmus' House
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The indie rock musician, and member of the band "Pavement", lives here. He purchased the 3-bed, 3-bath, 3,127 sq ft home in July of 2001 for $447K, according to public records.

Abby Wambach's house
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Carrie Brownstein's House
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Carrie Brownstein is an American musician, writer, and actress, who first widely became known as a guitarist and vocalist in Sleater-Kinney. Since 2010, Brownstein has sung and played guitar for the band Wild Flag; they released their self-titled debut album in September 2011. Brownstein stars with co-developer Fred Armisen in Portlandia, a sketch comedy show which began airing in January 2011 on IFC.

Carnival In Portland
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Civic, The
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Luxury Condominiums

Paul Stojanovich's House (former)
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By: tlp333.
The late television producer, whose notable creations include "American Detective" (1991–1993) and "World's Wildest Police Videos" (1998–2001), lived here. He died on March 15, 2003 after accidentally falling off a cliff while posing for a photograph his fiance, Kim Crowell, was taking.

'Hoke House' by Skylab Architecture
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By: pmoore66.
2007
Jeff Kovel
Cullen House - Twilight

Dragon Boat Race About to Start
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By: mlc1us.
The Dragon Boat Race is one of the events in the Portland Rose Festival held every year in June.

Andrew Wiederhorn's house (former)
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
Andrew A. Wiederhorn is a businessman from Portland, Oregon. He founded Wilshire Credit Corporation and served as its CEO. By 1997 (age 32) he had amassed a fortune estimated to be worth $140 million. Currently he is Chairman, CEO and majority shareholder in Fog Cutter Capital. He owns this 15,252 sq ft home.
The house was sold for $4,072,000 on Oct 26, 2017.
New address: 929 Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
Proof:
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/201819910270
https://clustrmaps.com/a/1ffaml/

United Airlines Flight 173 crash site
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Tinker Hatfield's House
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By: jdubble07.
Tinker Hatfield is Nike's most well known sneaker designer. He designed all Air Jordan sneakers from the Air Jordan 3 through Air Jordan 15, as well as the Air Jordan XX, Air Jordan XIII, and XXV. His title at Nike is Vice President for Design and Special Projects.

Evan Turner's House
Evan Turner is a point guard for the NBA Portland Trailblazers. He purchased this property in 2016

Arvydas Sabonis' House (former)
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
The Lithuanian retired basketball player lived here during his stint with the Portland Trail Blazers. He purchased this 4,600 sqft home in 1995 for $778,200 and sold it in 2002 for $1,010,000.

SS Pacific Tracker (XTR-1) and MV Pacific Collector telemetry ships
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By: kjfitz.
The SS Beaver State (T-ACS-10) was converted for the Missile Defense Agency at Cascade General Shipyards in Portland to an X-Band Transportable Radar Ship, designated (XTR-1) and renamed SS Pacific Tracker, April 1, 2009.
The MV Pacific Collector works as mainly as a "downrange" asset for closely monitoring the telemetry of ballistic missiles in flight.

Portland Speedway
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Portland International Airport (PDX)
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Giant Cross (The Grotto)
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(From the Info link:) "This beautiful 62 acre Catholic Shrine and botanical garden is located in Portland, Oregon. The Grotto (as it is commonly called) is a non-profit Oregon corporation, supported solely by the proceeds of its gift shop and by donations. It is administered by the Friars of the Order of Servants of Mary. "
(From me:) When they light this cross up at night you can see it for miles. The neighborhood directly beneath The Grotto appears as though it's stuck at permanent high noon, it's so bright! ;)

Adidas US Headquarters
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XXX
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Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club - Back
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By: jbottero.
Portland, Oregon clubhouse...

Jake the Giant Crab
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Jake's Famous Crawfish has been a downtown Portland landmark for more than 110 years. This menacing gargantuan crustacean is often seen securing the premises.

World's Smallest Park
Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon, United States, is a small park that was created on St. Patrick's Day, 1948, to be a colony for leprechauns and a location for snail races. It is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, which first granted it this recognition in 1971. The "park" is a circle two feet (610 mm) across (with a total area of 452 in2 (0.2916 m²) in a traffic median which in 1948 was intended to be the site for a light pole. When the pole failed to appear and weeds sprouted in the opening, Dick Fagan, a columnist for the Oregon Journal, planted flowers in the hole and named it after his column in the paper, "Mill Ends". (Fagan's office in the Journal building overlooked the median in the middle of the busy thoroughfare that ran in front of the building and was then known as SW Front Avenue.)

The Coon Chicken Inn
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name (which uses an ethnic slur), trademarks, and entrances of the restaurants were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter. The smiling capped porter head also appeared on menus, dishes, and promotional items.
The first Coon Chicken Inn was opened in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925. In 1929, another restaurant was opened in then-suburban Lake City near Seattle, Washington, and a third was opened in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon, in 1931. Later, a cabaret, orchestra, and catering were added to the Seattle and Salt Lake restaurants.
As you can see from the post card images here: http://hollywood.pdx.edu/html/coon_chicken_inn.html, the same building exists today, although obviously it's a different restaurant now.

Pittock Mansion

Forest park (largest city park in USA)
TDUCK (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TDUCK.
Forest park in Portland Oregon is the largest city park in the United States. Great for hiking, horse back riding, mt. biking, and nature watching.

Battleship USS Oregon (BB-3) Memorial
Memorial located in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, in Portland, Oregon. On 4 July 1976, a time capsule was sealed in the base of the memorial. The time capsule is scheduled to be opened 5 July 2076.

Providence Park
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Portland Beavers - minor leauge baseball AAA Pacific Coast League

Peter Stott's House
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Peter Stott is former President and CEO of Crown Pacific.

Moda Center
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Art Deco Coca-Cola Building
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The Portland Coca-Cola Building was designed by Jesse M. Shelton and built in 1941. It is still an active bottling plant.

Chris Walla's House
The musician and music producer, most notable for being the guitarist for the band "Death Cab for Cutie", lives here. He purchased the 4-bed, 3-bath, 2,623 sq ft home in October of 2005 for $359,950, according to public records.

'De Graff House' by Richard Neutra
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1940
altered beyond recognition

'Contact II' by Alexander Liberman
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in Jamieson Park

Brandin Cooks' house
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
The NFL wide receiver owns this 4-bed, 7-bath 7981 sqft house.
Cooks purchased this house in 2019 for $3,450,000

Women and Women First (Portlandia Filming Location)
'In Other Words' is a feminist bookstore and and woman's center in Porland, Oregon.
It was the inspiration and is the filming location for the IFC TV show, Portlandia, which stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein who play feminists Toni and Candace, the fictional owners of the store, called 'Women and Women First' in the show.
The owners of the real store have now come out against the depiction of feminism and their store in the show.

Union Station, Portland Oregon
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By: jbottero.
Union Station was dedicated on February 14, 1896. It was built in the Italian Renaissance style, in a graceful curve that faced downtown. Central to the station design was the 150-foot clock tower, which was later modified to include the neon "Go By Train" signs that are a familiar Portland icon today.

Freightliner wind tunnel
This facility is located on Swan Island in Portland.

Cable laying ship 'C.S. Global Sentinal'
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Alpenrose Velodrome
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Olympic-style track bicycle racing venue. Outdoor, located at the Alpenrose Dairy sports complex.

Oregon Zoo
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Pioneer Square
"Portland's Living Room" in the heart of downtown. Concerts and festivals are held in the plaza throughout the year.

Rocky Butte
Rocky Butte is a prominent volcanic landscape feature on the northeast side of Portland, Oregon, and includes the Grotto, a property owned by the Roman Catholic Church at the location of a former quarry by the Union Pacific Railroad from the late 1800's until it was purchased by Father Ambrose Mayer in 1923. In 1935 the crest of Rocky Butte was given to Multnomah County by Joseph A. and B.W. Hill. "Joseph Wood Hill Park" was created at the summit and dedicated to the public in memory of their father, Dr. J.W. Hill.

Basketball in Laurelhurst Park
The basketball courts in Laurelhurst Park are rarely empty. Play a pickup game or just shoot some hoops by yourself if you prefer.

Lewis & clark college
Founded as Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867, the College moved to the former Lloyd Frank estate in Portland's southwest hills in 1942, taking the name Lewis & Clark College. Lloyd Frank was the co-founder of the major western retail clothing chain 'Meier & Frank'.

St. Johns Bridge

'Arthur' Inflatable
Atop the Portland Children's Museum to advertise 'Arthur's World' traveling exhibit.

Columbia Sportswear Global HQ

Charles Denson's house
Champion3 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Champion3.
Charles D. Denson is the president of NIKE Brand.

Apple-Crate Maze
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F-15s at Portland Airport
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Air National Guard base.

Gypsy Joker Motorcycle Club - Front
Portland, Oregon clubhouse...

Ladd's Addition, Portland Oregon
Ladd's Addition is named after William S. Ladd, a nineteenth-century Portland mayor who originally owned a 126-acre (500,000 m²) farm on the land. In 1891 (when the city of East Portland was merged into Portland) Ladd decided to subdivide the land for residential use. Rather than adopt the standard orthogonal grid of the majority of Portland, Ladd followed the inspiration of Pierre L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C. and created a diagonal "wagon wheel" arrangement, including four small diamond-shaped rose gardens and a central traffic circle surrounding a park.

William Perez' house (former)
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
The former CEO of Nike and current CEO of the Wrigley Jr. Company, the world's largest chewing-gum manufacturer owned this house during his time as CEO of Nike.

Riding on a Pink Tube
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F-4 Phantom II and F-101 Voodoo
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Waverley Country Club
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Grand Floral Parade in progress
This parade in progress is probably the Grand Floral Parade which includes a large fair and naval ship tours.

MV Cape Horn (T-AKR-5068)
MV Cape Horn is one of Military Sealift Command's 27 Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and one of the 49 RRF ships in Military Sealift Command's Sealift Program Office.

M114 155 mm howitzer on display
The M114 155 mm howitzer was a towed howitzer used by the United States Army. It was first produced in 1942 as a medium artillery piece. It saw service with the US Army during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, before being replaced by the M198 howitzer. The gun was used by the armed forces of many nations, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, South Korea, Lebanon, Libya, Norway, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. 116 surplus howitzers were sent to Bosnia in 1997. In some of those countries the M114 still remains in service.

Oregon Convention Center
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'Fennell Residence' by Robert Harvey Oshatz

Dan Wieden's House
Dan Wieden is an advertising executive and co-founder of ad firm Wieden+Kennedy. In 1988, Wieden created the famous Nike slogan "Just Do It."

WWII USS LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) 713
The Landing craft, Infantry or LCI were several classes of sea-going amphibious assault ships of the Second World War utilized to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches.

MiG 15 and BAC Jet Provost at Portland Hillsboro Airport
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Oaks Amusement Park
Surrounded by the same stately trees for which it was named, The Oaks, in Portland, Oregon in 2005 will celebrate its 100th consecutive year of operation, making it one of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in America. Built by the Oregon Water Power and Navigation Company, the park opened its gates on May 30, 1905 to Portlanders who arrived by foot and on horseback, in automobiles and by boat from the Willamette River. In keeping with the design of other "Trolley Parks" across the country, most of its visitors disembarked from trolley cars which ran along the Portland-to-Oregon City tracks forming the eastern boundary of the park.

St. Johns Bridge
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The St. Johns Bridge is a steel suspension bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, USA, between the St. Johns neighborhood and the northwest industrial area around Linnton. It is the only suspension bridge in the Willamette Valley and one of three public highway suspension bridges in Oregon. It is also the farthest north of any bridge on the Willamette.
The bridge has two 408 ft (124 m) tall Gothic towers, a 1,207 ft (368 m) center span and a total length of 2,067 ft (630 m). The adjacent park and neighborhood of Cathedral Park, Portland, Oregon are named after the Gothic Cathedral-like appearance of the bridge towers. It is the tallest bridge in Portland, with 400 ft (122 m) tall towers and a 205 ft (62 m) navigational clearance.
By 2001, average traffic on the bridge was 23,800 vehicles/day.

Government Island
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The Island can be accessed by boat only via one of two docks on the north side of the island. Services include camping, swimming, boating, picnicking, hiking and fishing.

Propellers in Portland
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Ikea Portland
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Jug Shaped Building
Pirate's Cove (strip joint)

Shaver Transportation barges
Founded by George Washington Shaver in 1880, Shaver Transportation's early business included long runs to Idaho through the rapids of the Snake River. But much of the company's early work consisted of local transportation of timber, agricultural products and people on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, which were the Interstate 84 and Interstate 5 of the era. The first Portland bridge across the Willamette wasn't completed until 1887.
Many of the steamships were shallow-draft sternwheelers, which were very maneuverable and durable. Some were capable of steaming up smaller rivers like the Yamhill as far as Dayton. One business partner of Shaver bragged that he could get a steamship "anywhere where the roses are wet with dew."
Much of Shaver's current business consists of bringing wheat from inland Columbia ports back to the Port of Portland, which accounts for almost one-third of U.S. wheat exports, second only to New Orleans.

Mast of the USS Oregon
The mast of the battleship USS Oregon at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, in Portland, Oregon. On 4 July 1976, a time capsule was sealed in the base of the memorial. The time capsule is scheduled to be opened 5 July 2076.

John Brooke's House
John Brooke is the former president of Intercoastal Manufacturing Co.

Portland International Raceway
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Shortened 57 Chevy Wagon at Fuller's Coffee Shop
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.
Off the tourist path but loved by locals, Fuller's is a taste of the sort of high-quality urban hash house now nearly vanished from most American cities. No fancy meals here, just excellent bacon and eggs and toast from homemade bread, accompanied by good coffee and lots of conversation at the counter.

Lufthansa Airbus A340-500
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The Hip Sing Tong - Portland, Or
The Hip Sing Tong, now known as the Hip Sing Association is a Chinese-American association based in New York's Chinatown long know for its involvement in organised crime.

Large Cargo Ships in Port on Willamette River
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Submarine USS Blueback (SS-581)
USS Blueback was the last non-nuclear powered submarine built by the U.S. Navy, and the last to be decommissioned after serving her country for 31 years. Blueback and her sister ships of the Barbel class utilized radical new concepts in post World War II submarine design, the most important being the teardrop hull and a single propeller.
The new teardrop hull design was a critical feature which increased underwater speed dramatically and enabled submarines to be almost as maneuverable underwater as airplanes of similar dimensions in the air. Other innovations included sail-mounted control planes and advanced mechanical, sonar and navigation equipment.
Blueback participated in Pacific Fleet operations, including transiting of the Panama Canal. In September 1961, she set a record by traveling 5,340 miles from Yokosuka, Japan to San Diego entirely submerged. OMSI took possession of Blueback in February 1994. She is currently the most modern submarine on public display. Guided tours are provided seven days a week. Overnight science camps are also conducted.

Gus Van Zant's House
The director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author owns this home.

'Skybox' by Krownlab

Sea Fighter (FSF-1)
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Rose Festival MusicFest

Giant Rotating Loaf of Bread
Franz Bakery

Pacific Collector - DOD Missile Defense Agency

On-board the submarine USS Blueback
USS Blueback (SS-581) is a decommissioned Barbel-class submarine formerly in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy submarine to bear the name.
Blueback was laid down by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 April 1957. She was launched on 16 May 1959 sponsored by Mrs. Kenmore McManes, wife of Rear Admiral McManes, and commissioned on 15 October 1959, Lieutenant Commander Robert H. Gautier in command. She was the last non-nuclear submarine to join the United States Navy and was the final conventionally powered combat capable submarine to be decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy with a fully nuclear submarine fleet except for the research submarine USS Dolphin (AGSS-555).
Blueback was decommissioned on 1 October 1990 and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, Washington. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 October 1990. With her removal from service, the last fully war capable diesel-electric submarine of the United States Navy had left the fleet, leaving the research submarine USS Dolphin as the last diesel submarine of the US fleet.

United Airlines Boeing 757 Taxiing
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NWA Boeing 757 Taxiing

Jamison Square
The fountain simulates tidal pools.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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A great science museum on the Willamette River in downtown Portland. Home of the USS Blueback, the last US diesel fast-attack sub.

Portland State University
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Houseboats
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The Day Theater
The Star Theater was built in 1924. In 1928 the name was changed to the Ames. Eventually the theater was renamed The Day, and then closed in 1965. Though The Day Theater served a number of purposes such as church services throughout the 1970's and 1980's, it never fell to "adult" content, and was eventually abandoned. Sometime in the early 2000's, it seems to have been renovated into a community center of some type, but recent Street View images suggest it hasn't been in use for some time.