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View the Stanley Cup at Pioneer Courthouse Square (17-August-2011)

August 15, 2011 by Dave Leave a Comment

Update: Visit Cyclotram for great photos from the event, and of course pictures of the Stanley Cup!

Oregonian headline,  21 March 1916Did you know the Portland Uncle Sams (aka Rosebuds) were the first American team to compete for the Stanley Cup? Alas, Portland lost to the Montreal Canadiens in game five of a five game series 2-1 in 1916.

As a result of reaching the championship match that year, as cyclotram reveals, engraved on the Cup are the words “Portland Ore./PCHA Champions/1915–16”, listing us alongside all the Cup champions in years before and since.

Portland’s present team, the Western Hockey League Portland Winterhawks, does not compete for the Stanley Cup, but is hosting a special Stanley Cup viewing – this Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Former Portland Buckaroo player Tom McVie, who now scouts for the 2011 NHL Champion Boston Bruins, is bringing the cup to town:

As part of hockey tradition, players and members of team management from the winning team each get a day with the Cup, and as part of his day, McVie wants to share it with Portland’s hockey fans.

Fans will be able to get their picture taken with the iconic trophy, and get an up close look at the Cup which includes the names of every player to have won it engraved on its panels. Fans will also be able to participate in other hockey activities, including street hockey, an inflatable puck shoot game and much more.

The event runs from noon until 1:30pm. If you miss your chance to see the cup at Pioneer Courthouse Square, head on up to Vancouver – the cup will be on display at the Mountain View Ice Arena between 3:30pm and 5pm, also on Wednesday, August 17, 2011.

Update: The Oregonian is reporting several other stops, Tuesday and Wednesday.

March 30, 1916: Portland Uncle Sams (aka Rosebuds) Play for Stanley Cup

March 30, 2011 by Dave 3 Comments

First action photograph of Portland's professional team, practicing at Portland's Ice Hippodrome (<em>The Oregonian</em>, 28-November-1914)

Above is the first action photograph of Portland’s professional team, practicing at Portland’s Ice Hippodrome (The Oregonian, 28-November-1914)

The Stanley Cup had been awarded since 1893 to the top hockey team in the Dominion of Canada. In 1914, with the inclusion of the Pacific Coast Hockey League in the competition for the cup, a U.S. team (i.e. Portland) first became eligible. In 1916 the Portland Uncle Sams (aka Rosebuds) were the first American team to compete in the cup final, losing 2-1 in the final match of a 5 game series to the Montreal Canadiens on March 30, 1916.

The series was played in Montreal. The Oregonian reported (31-March-1916):

The contest was hard fought and spirited and in the last period the rival teams skated like mad men and the big crowd was kept in an uproar, especially after Dunderdale, of Portland, had shot the goal which brought the score to a one-to-one tie.

The series was hard fought throughout and even the most ardent Eastern fans admitted tonight that Montreal had shown little if any superiority over the clever skaters from the Pacific Coast. Each team had won two games and tonight’s game, played under National Hockey Association rules, an advantage to the locals, was the deciding factor.

Background on the Portland Uncle Sams:

Portland’s professional hockey team was purchased from New Westminster in 1914 (The Oregonian, 23-October-1914), and played and practiced at the Ice Hippodrome at NW 20th and Marshall (Ibid., 26-November-1914). The team played their first game (which they lost 6-3 to Vancouver B.C.) on December 8, 1914 (Ibid., 9-December-1914). The Oregonian usually referred to the team as the Portland Uncle Sams, and used that name in box scores and lineup listings, but occasionally also mentioned their alternate nickname, Rosebuds.

Rosebuds* 10/20/2009

October 20, 2009 by Dave Leave a Comment

A different take on Portland’s Platting

In the 4000-year history of the grid, American incarnations are relatively new, appearing first about 300 years ago, frequently as a simple, orthogonal and often square (such as Portland’s) ‘Hippodamian’ grid, named after the planner of Miletus around 473 BC (Fig 1).

A session in the recent 2009 New Partners for Smart Growth conference focused on ‘The Beautiful American Grid — the Embodiment of Smart Growth,’ which lamented the fact that the grid ‘gets no respect’.

Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland at Planetizen

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March 7-8: Booze, cheap fashion, and links

March 6, 2009 by Dave 2 Comments

newdealvodkaDid you miss your chance to tour the New Deal Distillery during Travel Oregon’s Oregon Bounty last fall?

Read the account of my November visit to New Deal, and then make your way to the distillery’s new tasting room Saturday, March 7th or Saturday, March 14. It’s open from 11am-4pm.

sameunderneath-logoI used to live next door to Sameunderneath when it was on Shaver just west of Mississippi. The owners and the employees were always fantastically nice, and I loved the clothes’ softness and clean designs. The prices, however, busted my budget. Sameunderneath is going out of business though, and their misfortune is our gain: warehouse sale Saturday only, NW 5th and Couch.

That’s all I got for this weekend (I’ll actually be staying in dealing with this), but Around the Sun and PDX Pipeline have lots more!

Rosebuds for 8.19.08

August 19, 2008 by Dave 1 Comment

Rose BudsOly 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, circa 1978

. . . which post borrows a photograph from Cyclotram, which provides us with tips on How to walk the Ross Island Bridge and not die, if you’re lucky.

. . . which leads me to remember that the Ross Island bridge carries, in addition to automobiles and the occasional foolhardy pedestrian, gravity-fed Bull Run water to the West Side, where it fills reservoirs in Washington Park.

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