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Pittock Mansion Holiday Season 2011

November 19, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

Once again Portland’s historic Pittock Mansion is going all out for the holiday season. This year, from November 21 through January 2, the theme is Christmas Around The World.

Every year, starting more than 40 years ago, dozens of volunteer decorators, designers, and local organizations donate their time and talents to transform Pittock Mansion into a Christmas wonderland for approximately 17,000 delighted visitors during the holiday season. This year’s bedecking of the Mansion’s hallways, grand marble staircase, and 23 treasure-filled rooms will feature multi-cultural Christmas customs and traditions as we celebrate Christmas Around the World.

Visitors are invited to enjoy the special exhibit and decorations, including over two dozen Christmas trees. Musicians will be performing regularly in the Music Room, and of course there are plenty of shopping options in the Museum Store.

Admission is free for members, $9 for adults, $8 for seniors (65+), $6 for youth (ages 6 – 18), and free for children ages 5 and younger.

The holiday display stays up until January 2nd. The mansion is open every day from November 22 until January 2nd 2011, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Hours daily are 11am until 4pm.

Lots of people are enthusiastic about the holidays, so the Mansion can get pretty crazy. To help alleviate the crowding the park offers a free shuttle from December 17 through January 1. Park your car by PSU (or take the train or bus downtown) and head over to PSU Parking Garage #3 (entrance on SW 12th or 13 just south of Market Street).

Weekend Amusements (November 18-20, 2011)

November 17, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

The holiday bazaars are already upon us, plus two Timbers Army events, a film fest, World Toilet Day, and this weekend’s featured event: D.B. Cooper Night!

All Weekend

Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival 2011

The 38th annual Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival kicks off Friday, November 11, 2011 with an opening night party at the Portland Art Museum’s Fields Ballroom (1119 SW Park). The film screenings, panels, and parties continue through November 20 at numerous venues. This is the Northwest Film Center‘s 40th anniversary season. [more]

Friday

Gorge Birthday Bash

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area at the Gorge Birthday Bash this Friday, November 18, 2011 at the Leftbank Annex (101 North Weidler).

“The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area encompasses 292,500 acres, the entire length of the Columbia River Gorge.” [more]

Offbeat Belly Dance

Every third Friday of the month the Blue Monk (3341 SE Belmont) hosts the Offbeat Belly Dance collective, a club rocking, good timing, genre-defying gang of badass belly dancers.

This Friday, November 18, 2011, is no exception – the Offbeat! This Friday! FREE! Fun! Fiercely Awesome Lineup! Woo! Get Some! [more]

Saturday

World Toilet Day 2011

World Toilet Day 2011, an annual celebration of the importance of sanitation to raise global awareness of the struggle 2.6 billion face every day without access to proper, clean sanitation, takes place on Saturday, November 19. Activities are planned throughout the world. [more]

SCRAP Holiday Bazaar & Port City Bizarre Bazaar

Portland’s non-profit organized creative reuse center, SCRAP (2915 NE MLK Jr. Blvd.), is hosting their annual Holiday Bazaar this Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 10am to 6pm.

“Give your loved ones SCRAPpy gifts this holiday season! For one day only, we will host 18+ local artisans selling their wares made from a minimum of 75% reused materials.” [more]

Wild Arts Festival 2011

The 31st annual Wild Arts Festival, presented by and benefiting the Audubon Society of Portland, takes place this Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20, 2011 at Montgomery Park (2701 NW Vaughn).

The Wild Arts Festival celebrates nature in the work of regionally and nationally-known artists and writers . . .[more]

Timbers Army 3rd Saturday

The first ever MLS post-season Timbers Army 3rd Saturday takes place November 19, 2011.

“Holy schnikees! It’s the off season! That means it is time for Third Saturday (and catz and raves and speculating and then more catz) and all of it’s drunken hijinks! . . .” [more]

Sunday

Sunday Lecture: Matt Love on the Yaquina Bay Bridge

The Oregon Historical Society (1200 SW Park Avenue) presents a Sunday Lecture by Matt Love on November 20, 2011 at 2pm. He will be discussing his new book, Love and the Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism. [more]

Timbers Army 2011 MLS Cup Final Viewing

Join the Timbers Army and 107ist on Sunday, November 20, 2011 for a special screening of the MLS Cup Final at the Mission Theater (1624 SW Glisan).

Watch the Cup Final matchup between the LA Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo live, and enjoy the company of your fellow Timbers supporters. An assortment of Timbers Army merchandise will available to buy as well. [more]

Featured Event!

Kick Ass Oregon History Presents: DB Cooper Night

Join the geeked-out history folks of Kick Ass Oregon History for D.B. Cooper Night at Mississippi Studios (3939 N. Mississippi) on Sunday, November 20, 2011. The edifying fun, co-sponsored by Lost Oregon, Jennifer Wells Design Glass Studio, and Dave Knows Portland [that’s me!] begins at 7:30pm!

“DB Cooper Nite will (honor? celebrate? recognise? condemn?) note the 40th anniversary of the only unsolved skyjacking in United States Aviation History.” [more]

For even more weekend events and activities, check out the Dave Knows Calendar, and visit Around the Sun, Blogging Portland on the Cheap, PDX Pipeline, and Oregon Events at OregonLive.com.

Sunday Lecture: Matt Love on the Yaquina Bay Bridge (20-November-2011)

November 17, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

The Oregon Historical Society (1200 SW Park Avenue) presents a Sunday Lecture by Matt Love on November 20, 2011 at 2pm. He will be discussing his new book, Love and the Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon’s Crown Jewel of Socialism:

Oregon opened the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport on Labor Day 1936. Built during the New Deal, the Yaquina Bay Bridge was the aesthetic and engineering brainchild of Conde McCullough, Oregon’s State Bridge Engineer from 1919 to 1937. For 75 years the Yaquina Bay Bridge has stood magnificently as a monument to excellence in architecture and how a partnership between state and federal government in the throes of an economic calamity can produce something practical, beautiful, and lasting. It is nothing less than an Oregon landmark and a powerful reminder how to build a great bridge.

Author, editor, teacher, and historian Matt Love has written prolifically about Oregon, and in 2009, he won the Oregon Literary Arts’ Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for his contributions to Oregon history and literature. He also runs Nestucca Spit Press.

OHS members and Multnomah County residents are admitted to the lecture free, and entrance to the event is included with regular admission. Call 503-306-5214 or RSVP online.

Matt Love will also be appearing Sunday at the Kick Ass Oregon History DB Cooper Night event, co-sponsored by Dave Knows Portland, at 7:30pm at Mississippi Studios

November 11, 1973: “Peoples Day” on the Fremont Bridge

November 11, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

In anticipation of its imminent grand opening, to traffic, November 11, 1973 was declared Peoples Day on the Fremont Bridge (The Oregonian, 12 November 1972).

Braving a rainy, gusty day, Portlander walked, jogged or bicycled over the Fremont Bridge Sunday, celebrating its grand opening and its first and last day as a “people place.”

Moving out of a wind-whipped shuttle stop at the bridge’s east end, a place of instant craft shops and hot dog stands, pedestrians explored the $82 million span which will open to traffic Nov. 15.

It was easy to ignore the weather, however, in activities of this “Peoples Day.” From morning until evening, taxpayers enjoyed such diversities as crew racing, square dancing, and Finnish-American singing.

Others had more personal business. Old people seemed interested in examining the bolts, new cement and the paint job; stopping to look at new city views.

Youngsters seemed intent on going back and forth. Bill Fuller Jr., 5, and his brother Mark, 2, were perhaps the first tricyclists over the bridge. “They can brag about it someday,” said their father.

Steve Wood, 12, Milwaukie, and Randy Peterson, 13, Portland, defied winds to traverse the span several times on unicycles. “You do it very carefully,” said Steve.

And of course there were Tri-Met buses, balloons, a couple of dog fights and, under foot, the brand new bridge everyone came to see.

The bridge opened to automobile traffic on November 15, 1973.

Portland Metro RV Show (November 10-13, 2011)

November 9, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

This isn’t the sort of thing I usually blog about at Dave Knows, but last year Heather and I attended because we were seriously considering purchasing an RV. Ultimately we decided against it . . . for the time being. But we enjoyed last year’s show, and fell in love with the Airstreams.

The 53rd Portland Metro RV Show takes place this weekend, November 10 through 13, 2011 at the Expo Center (2060 N Marine Drive).

Dozens of Portland RV dealers and dozens of exhibitors will be on hand showing off their recreational vehicle wares. We recommend you make a bee line to the Airstreams!

The show hours are 11am until 8pm Thursday through Saturday, and 11am to 6pm Sunday. Admission $9 for adults, $7 for seniors 50 and over, and free for kids under 16 (with adult). Go to PortlandMetroRV.com to print up 2 for 1 admission coupons. Save yourself from the hassle of parking – take the Yellow Line MAX!

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