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[November 4th, 2009]
The bizarre tale of the “Made in Oregon” sign’s fate just keeps getting weirder. Truth be told, the Rogue Desk would rather eat glass than revisit this topic.
But time is not on our side. Only three weeks remain until the holiday season officially begins—when the sign’s owner traditionally turns on the red nose atop the leaping White Stag.
This year would mark the 50th anniversary of Rudolph in Portland. But Ramsay Signs President Darryl Paulsen turned off the sign in October, and it now appears possible the sign may stay dark during the holiday season.
Yet Paulsen isn’t the Rogue here. On behalf of all children and their kid-at-heart relatives, the Rogue Desk is singling out the University of Oregon for getting us into this mess.
We’ll admit it’s difficult to ascribe blame in this situation. But it was the U of O that last winter took steps to put its moniker on the sign. Most everyone knows how this ended. By September, the university said it was walking away from the sign.
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Meantime, Paulsen says the university now owes him about $100,000 for the design work and permitting fees his company generated during the two-year period it worked with the university to change the sign. (UO won’t acknowledge the amount of the bill, saying only that it’s negotiating.)
Whatever the amount, we’re guessing it’s enough to turn any businessman into a Grinch in this rough economy.
“We are actively working with Daryl Paulson [sic] and Ramsay sign to come to an arrangement,” Jim Bean, UO senior vice president and provost, wrote in an email to WW.
Paulsen is more direct. “If they’re actively working on a solution, that’s good,” he says. “It will save them a lawsuit.”
RECENT COMMENTS ON “University Of Oregon”
How can you blame the UO? They only tried to do what EVERY OTHER TENANT of that building has done for the past 50 years and were shut down by Randi Leonard in a ridiculous display of institutional jea...
I've often wished that sign could be made an historic landmark or something. It would be great if some non-profit would adopt it and pay for its maintenance and electricity.
Oh baloney. If Leonard hadn't acted like a jerk, U of O could have just changed it to Oregon, left the reindeer there and everything would be fine. The wording on the sign isn't sacred, it said Whit...
What! No Rudolph sign?! Now I know that I have been away from PDX503 for a 10 years and I am just tring to put in my 20 until my my retirement, so that I may move back. Or until Oregon actually recogn...











