If you’re interested in Portland’s history, and fond of vintage photos, the blogs Cafe Unknown and Lost Oregon are probably already familiar to you. You’ve probably also perused the fantastic archive of post cards and ephemera at PdxHistory.com. But you may not yet be aware of another photo-rich Portland history blog, the nascent Vintage Portland: Exploring Portland’s Past.

Charles Phoenix is bringing his Retro Holiday Slide Show to Portland once again this year.

Another generation of parents can soon terrify its children at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour

The king of retro, Charles Phoenix, comes to Portland Thursday for a performance at the Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St).
He will be presenting a live comedy slide show performance celebrating 50s and 60s, theme parks, space age style, car culture, roadside attractions and more!  For this Portland show he’ll be including vintage slides [...]

Ah, Quality Pie.  On NW 23rd across from the hospital.  In the late 80s I was a wide-eyed, parochial schooled suburbanite.  Quality Pie, in addition to Powells and the McDonalds (now Rich’s Cigars) by the Galleria, was my introduction to the city.  Sipping coffee into the wee hours, we observed eclectic late night Portland [...]

Oly Sandor ponders how Arvydas Sabonis, cerca 1986, would stack up against Olympians Chris Bosh or Dwight Howard
Portland experienced its first ciclovia back in June. And the ciclovia movement continues to sweep the nation.
Lost Oregon takes a look at the Burnside Burger King, cerca 1978
. . . which post borrows a photograph from Cyclotram, [...]

Update 11/19/2009: Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Returns to Portland
In the 70s and early 80s in Portland, if you were a parent with a sensitive child who didn’t like to be the center of attention, Farrell’s was the place to bring him on his birthday to thoroughly embarrass and humiliate him.
Bright lights, banging drums, sickening quantities [...]

Walking through the Park Blocks between classes one day in the early 90s I ran into my old friend Nick. We’d been buddies in grade school and high school, but when he went off to OSU and I to Reed, we didn’t stay in touch. Several years later we both happened to wind [...]