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Introduction
Highway
To Hell
Nothing
shaped Portland so much as the murder of the Mount Hood Freeway.
City Hall of Fame
Reaching
for the Sky
Of all the changes to Portland's skyline in the past 25
years, two projects stand out.
Rhymin' Rogues
Every city has some scandal, infamous people and secrets
to hide. So with apologies to several dead poets, here's a look at Portland's
notorious side.
They Rule
some of
our favorite Portlanders
PDX Index:
25
years of statistics
What Ever Happened to...
They came, they saw, they vanished into thin air. Where
are they now?
Marketing muscle
Nike rewrote the rules of the game.
The Oregonian's Big Oh's
At times, Portland's daily has been practically indefensible.
YEARS:
1974:
That's No Lady:
Darcelle XV | Ivancie the Terrible
1975: Trojan:
PGE's Nuclear Gamble | Deep Throat in Jeopardy
1976 : The Goldschmidt
Era
1977:
Bohemian
elegy: the Anne Hughes Gallery | Blazerania
1978:
Portland's urban growth boundary | John
Stalberger: the Abner Doubleday of hacky sack
1979: The
birth of Oregon's wine industry | Doom town: punk stomps into Portland
1980: Mt.
Saint Helens | the battle over desegregation | Ron
Wyden: the ultimate policy wonk
1981: Police
throw dead possums at black restaurant | James DePreist: The Maestro
1982: The recession
1983:
The Bhagwan
1984:
People power:
the election of Bud Clark | Theater of Sheep
1985:
"Don't Choke
'Em, Smoke 'Em" | AIDS:
the deadly plague
1986:
The 80s crime
wave | Penny
Harrington | MAX:
train in vain
1987:
The closing
of Jazz Quarry | A broken halo at Baloney Joe's | Death of an engineer:
the murder of Ben Linder | Remembering
Peter Fornara and Ric Young
1988:
Skinheads murder
an Ethiopian student | PSU's
problem prez | John
Callahan's poison pen
1989:
From sawmill
to silicon forest | Gus
Van Sant | The Gentrification Blues | Don't Have a Cow, Man
1990:
Wake up! It's
Tom Peterson! | Mediterranean masterpiece: Zefiro | The black hole at
starry night |
The ballot measure that ate oregon
1991:
The X-Ray Café
| Video poker | Sen
Hatfield's presents Daycare | Mom runs away with boy, 13
1992:
Azalea
Cooley | Lon Mabon, Measure 9, and the war on homosexuality | Katz vs.
Blumenauer
1993:
The Packwood
Follies | The Oregon Health Plan | A
shot to the head
1994:
Pink Martini:
The ambassador of cool | Whacked! Tonya's third-rate plot | Death
with dignity
1995:
On the street
| Patron saint of the pearl | XPAC:
new power generation
1996:
Pornocopia |
Grand slam: poetry in an angry voice | The tax man: Bill Sizemore
1997:
The closing of Roosevelt Plaza
1998:
Ace Hayes: the
government denies all knowledge | Do you know who your parents are?
|
The choirboys went
bad
1999:
The curse of
the New Carissa | Heroin's fatal pinprick | Adios, La Luna!