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tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:/news-and-profiles/history/feed History 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/12407 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 Goonies Never Say Die! Sean Astin Looks Back on 30 Years of the Truffle Shuffle

Child actors Jeff Cohen, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, and Jonathan Ke Quan

Image: Amblin Entertainment/Warner Bros.

The Goonies, a wacky '80s caper film about lost treasure on the Oregon Coast, somehow still has a cult following. Why do you think the film has endured for so long? The movie is, in an interesting way, of its time. The '80s were a golden era of a certain kind of fantasy film, where the sense of adventure and youth were allowed to exist side by side. People hear the first few bars of the soundtrack, and they're instantly in 1985. Those sounds—that Cyndi Lauper music—the fun we were having. People all over the world have that sense of closeness with The Goonies. It represents their time and their lives, wherever they are.

Why is fun important? The Goonies inoculated itself from criticism by not taking itself too seriously. That's one of the great parts of the collaboration between [producer] Steven Spielberg and [director] Richard Donner. They both had that sense of whimsy. You have things like an octopus scene that gets cut out but still referred to. Me, referring to Josh Brolin's character as "Josh" instead of the character's name. You can hear Richard giggling behind the camera in one scene. It was just fun.

Any memorable behind-the-scenes moments? While we were filming, we did a "Say no to drugs" thing at a basketball game at the local high school. We go down, and there's all these kids screaming and cheering, and hooting and hollering. I don't think any of us were famous yet but, that moment, that was really the first time I felt like a real celebrity. It was an interesting transition for me.

So, tell us, when's the sequel coming? I've always said it should be an animated TV show: the Goonies having a different adventure each week. But I don't think Steven will pull the trigger unless he can recapture the magic. It's hard, because the '80s were such a unique time. You could have space for this sort of thing: adventure, with mystery and magic and campiness. How can you do that now?

How do you see Oregon in relation to the success of The Goonies? I was 12 when we made Goonies. It was obviously incredibly formative to me. As a corollary to Oregonians not being Oregonians without seeing Goonies, I'm not a Goonie if I haven't been to Oregon.
 Newsflash: 1985 was THREE DECADES AGO. Take in this shocking fact during a trip down memory lane. Newsflash: 1985 was THREE DECADES AGO. Take in this shocking fact during a trip down memory lane. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_678,w_678,x_161,y_0/c_limit,w_640/0615-portland-goonies_jkl2m8.jpg INTERVIEW Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/12412 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 Dive Into Portland's Swimsuit History

No, we don't have California's sunbaked beaches or Hawaii's turquoise waves—but a century ago, Portland did launch a swimwear revolution. In 1910, Carl Jantzen founded the Portland Knitting Company with Roy and John Zehntbauer, and in 1913, the Portland Rowing Club asked them to fashion a suit to ward off the Willamette's early-morning chill. Jantzen devised a 100 percent virgin wool knitted "bathing suit"—complete with matching wool knee socks and stocking cap—the precursor to today's swimsuit.

By 1921, the company had changed its name to Jantzen and officially switched its focus from sweaters to swimwear, purchasing three full-page ads in Vogue with a sexy illustrated "diving girl" (top right). The gambit paid off. At its peak in the late 1950s, Jantzen ran 18 design houses worldwide, churning out "International Set" collections, with France's legendary Hubert de Givenchy contributing designs.

Though Perry Ellis bought out Jantzen in 2002, Portland's swimwear legacy survives. In 1999, Pamela Levenson began making suits at home. By 2006 she opened Popina Swimwear (originally Poppi Swim) with her husband, Will. The company now sells selections from Tommy Bahama, Speedo, and (yes!) Jantzen, complementing Popina's own classic, locally manufactured cuts with extra bust support.

"Maybe because we cover up 90 percent of the year," says Levenson, "Portlanders are not prepared to wear the same suits as Miami."

Local designers are still trading on our aquatic fashion history. At February's Fade to Light fashion show, Project Runway winner Michelle Lesniak debuted a spring/summer line including whimsical printed suits, while Hawthorne boutique Altar offers vintage-inspired one- and two-piece suits as part of its new, customizable house line. "Besides what we will have on the sales floor, we are set up to take measurements for our customers and make their suits fit—perfectly," says Altar's Cassie Ridgway.

The revival of those fetching wool socks and cap has yet to catch on, but here's hoping.

Want more swimspiration? Check out our gallery of perfect swimsuits for any summer activity!
 Portland's Jantzen pioneered the swimsuit. A century later, we're still making a splash. Portland's Jantzen pioneered the swimsuit. A century later, we're still making a splash. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_552,w_552,x_26,y_26/c_limit,w_640/0615-jantzen-swimwear-history_vshoai.jpg STYLE Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/12386 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 2015-05-26T08:00:00-07:00 Looking Back on 40 Years of Portland Pride

Image: Michael Byers

Forty years after a small, brave group marked the Rose City's first public Gay Pride celebration, the Portland Pride Festival has become summer's unofficial kickoff: a colossal street party open to all. As we approach this year's fête (June 13–14), we look back on four colorful decades of Pride: a powerful journey toward the freedom to love and live.*

1975 About 200 people attend Portland's first outdoor public Gay Pride celebration, in the South Park Blocks near Portland State University.

1976 Anne and Bill Shepherd and Charles and Rita Knapp launch Parents of Gays (POG), later to become the Portland chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Portland. They set up a table at the Gay Pride rally.

1976 Lesbian activist Kathleen Saadat organizes Portland's first Gay Pride march.

1977 Portland Mayor Neil Goldschmidt issues a proclamation for Gay Pride Day.

1980 Mark Richards, Mark Jones, and Gary Coleman form the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, which performs its first concert at Pride.

1982 Portlanders Terry Bean, Jerry Weller, John Baker, Keeston Lowery, and Dana Weinstein start a new political fundraising organization called Right to Privacy (later called Right to Pride).

1983 Two years after the first reported case of AIDS in Oregon, Reese House, Brown MacDonald, and others form Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) to support gay and bisexual men affected by HIV and AIDS.

1983 Just Out publishes its first issue.

1984 Bud Clark, a strong straight ally of the gay community, is elected mayor. He campaigns and celebrates at the Dirty Duck, a gay bar.

1985 Newly elected Oregon Secretary of State Barbara Roberts requests the Portland Gay Men's Chorus sing at her inauguration.

1987 Lady Elaine Peacock hosts the first of many "Peacock in the Park" drag pageants in Washington Park. The event raises money for Audria M. Edwards Youth Scholarship Fund.

1989 The first LGBT-sponsored float appears in the Rose Festival's Starlight Parade.

1991 Gail Shibley becomes the first openly gay person to serve in the Oregon House of Representatives.

1992 Conservative Christian political organization the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) sponsors Measure 9, the first of many initiatives to amend the Oregon Constitution to prevent "special rights" for homosexuals and bisexuals. The measure fails, and groups formed in opposition become the basis for the next two decades of the state's LGBT rights movement.

1994 Portland's Lesbian Avengers stage the city's first-ever Dyke March.

1996 Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is incorporated after evolving from an organization that formed to oppose Measure 13, another anti-LGBT ballot measure promoted by the OCA.

1996 Chastity Bono serves as the Pride parade's grand marshal.

1998 In Tanner v. OHSU, the Oregon Court of Appeals rules that all state and local governments must offer spousal benefits to same-sex domestic partners. (The ruling also prohibits private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation in hiring,
 firing, and pay.)

2003 Rives Kistler is appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court, becoming the first openly gay state supreme court justice in the United States.

2004 The Defense of Marriage Coalition's Measure 36 passes, amending the Oregon Constitution with the following text: "It is the policy of Oregon, and its political subdivisions, that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or legally recognized as a marriage."

2004 Sam Adams is elected to Portland City Council. He is the first openly gay person elected to a public office of the City of Portland.

2005 A group of community activists, including Adams, help to incorporate the LGBTQ Community Center Fund—now known as Q Center—to provide a safe space to support and celebrate LGBT diversity,
 equity, and visibility.

2008 Democrat Kate Brown, who identifies as bisexual, is elected Oregon Secretary of State.

2008 Adams is elected mayor of Portland, making Portland the largest city up to that time to elect an openly gay mayor.

2008 Stu Rasmussen, who is transgender, is elected mayor of nearby Silverton, Oregon.

2009 PFLAG Portland Black Chapter becomes the first PFLAG chapter in the country created by and for the black/African American community.

2012 Oregon Representative Tina Kotek becomes Speaker of the House—the first openly lesbian leader of a state legislative chamber anywhere in the US.

2013 Gov. John Kitzhaber signs House Bill 2093, making Oregon one of a handful of states to remove the surgery requirement for transgender Oregonians seeking a change on their birth certificate.

2013 The Portland Thorns, Timbers, and Trail Blazers make history by becoming the first major pro sports teams to endorse a campaign for the freedom to marry.

2014 The Pride Festival hosts its first official Portland Trans March.

2014 US District Court Judge Michael McShane issues his decision in consolidated case Geiger v. Kitzhaber, ruling that Oregon's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional—the same day, plaintiffs Deanna Geiger and Janine Nelson become the first same-sex couple to wed with the court's backing in Oregon.

2015 Kate Brown becomes Oregon's second female governor, and the first openly bisexual governor in US history.

*This timeline is largely drawn from the work of the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN), housed at the Oregon Historical Society and glapn.org.

Did we miss anything? Please help us add to our timeline in the comments below!
 As the Portland Pride Festival turns 40, we look back on four decades of courage, progress, and raucous good times. As the Portland Pride Festival turns 40, we look back on four decades of courage, progress, and raucous good times. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_1000,w_1000,x_0,y_145/c_limit,w_640/0615-portlandpride_mnzfyj.jpg SUMMER GUIDE 2015 Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10539 2015-04-07T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-07T10:00:00-07:00 Will Portland's Historic Houses Survive the Wrecking Ball?

The Markham House, as seen in a vintage real estate sales brochure.

Image: CJ Hurley Century Arts

For months, the 1911 California Mission–style house at the corner of Northeast 32nd Avenue and Glisan Street sat vacant and silent. Last summer, neighbors in historic Laurelhurst learned that its new owner, a developer named Peter Kusyk, planned to tear it down. And suddenly, the Markham House had everyone's attention.

In some ways, the Markham was an obvious landfill candidate. It was built largely for show, its stucco exterior, red-gabled roof, and looming, faux-Spanish towers designed to lure Portlanders weary of central-city grime and bustle to Laurelhurst's then-suburban frontiers. The 5,000-square-foot house initially served as a real estate sales office, and as charming as it appears from outside, the interior is something of a design disaster. The formal living room's high ceilings and intricate moldings are elegant enough, but two other ground-level rooms are cramped and miserable. The kitchen is dated and isolated. Five-and-a-half-foot ceilings render the sizable second story basically useless. The basement is dank and weird.

Kusyk planned to replace the Markham with two new buildings, each likely to sell for more than the $467,000 he'd paid for the property. The plan fit a trend: in recent years, Portland developers have ripped down one old Portland house after another to build bigger and, in some cases, denser. Residential demolitions in Portland hit 308 in 2014, up from 273 the year before. Preservationists worry that tearing down venerable structures (and, often, the mature trees that surround them) chips away at the city's historic identity and treasured neighborhood fabric. But there isn't much, in most cases, that can be done to stop or even slow these demolitions. Projects have often unfolded quickly, with transactions finalized and permits issued before opposition can mobilize.

After Kusyk filed for a demolition permit in June 2014, a coalition of Laurelhurst neighbors launched a fundraising campaign, hoping to buy and save the house. (Kusyk wanted $700,000—much more than he'd paid, but also enough to cover an undisclosed amount he'd spent to clear liens on the property.) They also scrambled to recruit someone who could take charge of saving the house and found a champion in John McCulloch, a fifth-generation Portlander and professional designer/builder who restores old homes. He makes his living doing so, of course, but says he's also motivated by community pride and a love of challenges. And the Markham looked quite the challenge.

"The house is a ruin," McCulloch informed neighbors. "The stucco is falling off. Some has been replaced with foam stucco that is worse. The roof leaks. Every door and window, wall, ceiling, and floor is shot ... [and] it seems that every architect, homeowner, and contractor who has ever touched the house made it worse in ridiculous ways."

Nor did the math look good. McCulloch estimated that he would need to spend about $400,000 to make the Markham livable, which meant he would eventually have to sell the house for $1.1 million just to break even. But he haggled with Kusyk, a veteran local developer who didn't respond to interview requests for this story. Neighbors crowd-funded $35,000. Three days before Christmas, Kusyk sold to McCulloch. Laurelhurst had prevailed, and the history buff had his challenge.

"It never worked—it was never loved, so it fell into disrepair," McCulloch said as he surveyed the house last summer. "This is going to be really tricky."

Converging factors produced Portland's demolition spike. Intense demand for core-neighborhood housing reflects the national population influx into urban centers after the 2008 real estate crash, for example. But above all, the trend is a largely unintended consequence of Portland's urban planning priorities. "When you combine codes that promote density with lax historic preservation laws," says Brian Libby, a Portland journalist who blogs about architecture, "this is what you get."

Last year, at roughly the same time McCulloch moved to save the Markham, Google executive Kevin Rose bought an 1892 house in Willamette Heights and announced plans to tear it down. The affluent neighborhood united and pressured Rose to sell, amid an uproar that garnered national coverage. But relatively few old houses attract such potent constituencies, and demolition is becoming the rule rather than the exception. In Northeast's Beaumont-Wilshire neighborhood, for example, a developer purchased a 3,500-square-foot 1949 home for $725,000 in October 2013, tore it down, and is building two homes in its place. (At the time of this writing, prices had not been posted, but new homes in the area sell for a median price of $765,950.) In nearby Sabin, a 1924 single-story house sold for $290,000 in 2012, doubled in size via a "remodel," and sold for $754,000 the following year. And last year, Portland developer Mark Madden tore down the 1884 John Bridges House in Goose Hollow, above the objections of neighbors and other activists. He plans an 18-unit apartment building on the site.

The trend is particularly visible in the inner-east-side neighborhoods that historically housed Portland's working classes in modest single-family homes, and which now define the city's modern urban appeal. Angst is growing—yard signs with the slogan "Stop the Demolition of Portland Homes" have begun to proliferate.

Ken Forcier and his wife moved from the Bay Area to Northeast's Concordia neighborhood seven years ago, delighted to find a walkable district rich in character. The couple has watched in dismay as one lot after another transforms into "skinny" houses and supersize faux-retro bungalows.

"Skinny houses are resulting in the cutting down of old trees and the filling in of the side yards and gardens," Forcier says. "This bad architecture is embraced with such zeal that it has resulted in my neighborhood effectively being rezoned."

Forcier burrowed into city code. He discovered that developers often use a quirk of decades-old zoning to turn 5,000-square-foot lots (which distinguish neighborhoods as "R5" in zoning parlance) into twin 2,500-square-foot lots ("R2.5"). He argues that the practice has become so widespread that it amounts to a fundamental change in certain areas of the city.

"I bought in an R5 neighborhood," Forcier says. "Nobody asked me to change that. That's the city letting me down."

Aside from the splitting of lots, the demolition wave has revealed a flaw in Portland's vaunted urban planning, which is largely built around the goal of increasing central-city density. Demolitions may be clearing the way for some skinny houses, but overall they're not doing much to foster density. Of the 279 residential demolitions in 2013, for example, only about 30 percent resulted in additional housing units. In other words, most old Portland homes that get torn down are simply replaced by brand-new single-family houses.

Preservation advocates believe that all this warrants thorough debate and, they hope, new policies. "I think this snuck up on the public," Libby says. "Hopefully people are awake to the issue now."

Not every house that's been around for a while is a "historic" house, but the sheer number of older homes here has become a key part of Portland's identity. Local architectural historian James Heuer points out that in the early 1900s, Portland was the fastest-growing city in the US, making for a huge amount of inner-city construction that's now a century old. "Our percentage of structures over 50 years old is comparable to Chicago and Baltimore," he says.

In February, after considerable pressure from activists, some of whom have banded to together under the name United Neighborhoods for Reform, the city council unanimously approved some reforms to the demolition permitting process. All demolitions are subject to a 35-day delay, but new measures make it easier for neighborhood associations to request further postponement. Many preservationists would like to see a mandatory 120-day wait for houses more than 50 years old. Other potential council moves—increased fees, salvage requirements—will almost certainly be on the table this year.

The city's Historic Resources Inventory, created in 1983 but seldom updated, could be fleshed out to give neighbors more ammunition in arguing to save homes not currently designated as officially historic. Meanwhile, state law currently requires only a property owner's consent to strip a home of historic status—that could change. Forcier wants an end to R2.5-style building in R5 neighborhoods. Some advocates hope that the popularity of accessory dwelling units could allow more property owners to add density and value without completely sacrificing old homes.

"There may not be a global solution, but there's way more that we can do than fighting it house by house," Libby says. "Things are out of balance. But they're fixable."

While the potential solutions may be intricate, the argument is simple. Portland needs to react to its current (and, as far as can be foreseen) ongoing growth with a newfound respect for one characteristic that helps make this town so special: its past.

To walk the Markham House with McCulloch at the outset of his project was to glimpse the complexity of the undertaking. Towers on the roof cut this way and that. To make it work, McCulloch planned to raise the whole roof a foot or so, piece by piece, and then set it all back down again. He likes the challenge of this kind of job.

"I see this house as my gift to Portland," he says, "a way to have some legacy here."

 When one venerable house faced demolition, neighbors banded together to save it. But in a booming city, no one can save them all. When one venerable house faced demolition, neighbors banded together to save it. But in a booming city, no one can save them all. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_556,w_556,x_222,y_0/c_limit,w_640/042015_markhamhouse_ddcyad.jpg REAL ESTATE 2015 Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10470 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 Local Journalist Reveals the Scandalous History Behind a Major Board Game

How did you end up writing a book about a board game?
 I was writing about business and finance at the Wall Street Journal in 2009. You remember: things were very depressing. I had grown up playing a lot of games and video games. I grew up in Eugene, where it was cold and rainy. I was going to have a throwaway line in a story about how Monopoly was invented during the Great Depression. I kept looking around [at the history], and it wasn't adding up.

So what's the real story?
 Most people think Monopoly was invented by a guy in the Great Depression, this man Charles Darrow. But the history starts far earlier. It was invented by a woman named Lizzie Magie in 1904. And her game spread pretty extensively among left-wing intellectuals, especially in the Northeast. A version of that game was sold to Parker Brothers.

How was her original game different?
 Early Monopoly was called the Landlord's Game. Magie created it as a protest against the monopolists of her time. She was an impassioned follower of [Progressive Era economist] Henry George, who was talking about income inequality. So she used her game as a teaching tool to teach people about the evils of monopolies.

How did we end up with our version?
 Lizzie Magie's original game had two rules sets: a monopolists' rule set and an anti-monopolists rule set. And I've always wondered why the monopolists' rule set took off. Maybe because in real life, most of us can't be tycoons crushing people, let alone our friends and family. It's very ironic to me that something that was intended to be one thing ended up as its total opposite. We can't blame Lizzie for all of that. The game has very much evolved as we have played it.
 Mary Pilon on her new book,  The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game Mary Pilon on her new book,  The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_569,w_569,x_16,y_0/c_limit,w_640/042015_marypilon_djbsvp.jpg INTERVIEW Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10489 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 The Story of Washington High School's Boom, Bust, and Rebirth as Revolution Hall

Alialujah Choir, a Portland indie-folk band, warms up for the February soft opening of Revolution Hall.

Image: Leah Nash

Washington High School, for decades a shuttered and forlorn landmark of the inner east side, begins new life this year as Revolution Hall, a state-of-the-art, 830-seat music and theater venue. Besides reanimating a century-old building—which also now holds an eclectic collection of retail and office spaces—Revolution aims to fill a gap in the local music market. "There just aren't many venues with this kind of capacity," says events coordinator Rachel Coddington. "You have the small theaters, and then the Schnitz. Revolution Hall will allow for performances by artists who have reached a certain level of popularity."

Meanwhile, the building's long history tells a tale of its own—of the east side's explosive early growth, '70s doldrums, and current cultural (and property) boom.

Image: Ashley Courtier

1906: Briefly named the East Side School, Washington is Portland's first secondary school on the recently annexed "other" side of the river, built during a decade that sees the city's population more than double.

1917: Future Nobel Prize–winning chemist Linus Pauling quits Washington High at age 16.

1920: James Beard, future culinary icon, graduates.

1922: Washington burns nearly to the ground in a blaze that kills a Portland firefighter.

1924: A new building opens, costing more than $500,000—around $6.7 million today. The Oregonian notes that the school is already "too small" for its 1,826 students.

1928: The boys' basketball team brings home the state championship after a 27–23 game against Medford High School.

1945: The boys' hoops team wins the state title for the second time, beating Oregon City 51–41.

1956–7: The school adds spaces for home economics and shop classes.

1962: Linus Pauling receives both an honorary diploma from the school and the Nobel Peace Prize. (His chemistry Nobel came in 1954.)

1978: The district merges Washington with Monroe High School, an all-girls vocational school.

1981: Portland Public Schools' board votes to close Washington-Monroe High School in the face of falling enrollment districtwide. (The board debates closing as many as three high schools.) About 200 students briefly occupy school district headquarters in protest.

Image: Ashley Courtier

1983: PPS converts the building into a multiuse facility.

2003: A plan to convert the building to condos falls through.

2005: The building is set up to be a center for refugees of Hurricane Katrina—but none ever arrive.

2009–13: PICA's Time-Based Art Festival uses the building as a performance, exhibition, and party site. The library houses a stage-set version of a national park, classrooms hold dozens of visual art exhibitions, and experimental video art is projected on the exterior walls of the school.

2011: Portland Parks & Recreation makes ambitious plans to convert the building into a community center; the idea never comes to fruition.

2013: The building and property are sold to Venerable Properties for $2 million. Plans for Revolution Hall and the accompanying office and retail spaces take shape.

April 2015: Revolution Hall opens with a slate of performances including Neko Case, the von Trapps, Live Wire, Welcome to Night Vale, Kathleen Hanna, and others.
 How the long-closed Southeast Portland high school became an ambitious new concert venue. How the long-closed Southeast Portland high school became an ambitious new concert venue. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_669,w_667,x_0,y_258/c_limit,w_640/042015_RevolutionHall-00_wbdybt.jpg CULTUREPHILE Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10472 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 2015-04-02T10:00:00-07:00 Death & Taxis: A Look Back At Portland's Storied Cab History

Image: Amy Martin

1915 City Commissioner Will Daly requires all cabs to list a schedule of rates with the public utilities department and display them clearly for passengers.

1915 Police put a halt to "joyriding"—a common practice where taxicab drivers would pick up unwitting drunkards, drive them around for hours, and force them to pay the fare.

1916 Taxi companies protest the "jitney" system—cheap, largely unlicensed cars operating on predetermined routes—as an unfair form of competition. (Uber before its time?) A series of ordinances outlaws jitneys in Portland.

1928 Following a string of violent brawls between rival cab companies vying for spots at cab stands, police revoke licenses for any drivers caught "fighting on the streets."

1929  Taxi operators suggest the city limit how many cabs there can be—1 per 2,500 people. City commissioners decline, saying they "may as well undertake to limit grocery stores," too.

1939 The city caves and sets a maximum number of cabs at 120.

1941 The city sets the maximum charge for any ride within the city limits at $1. Taxi companies call city commissioners "jokers."

1943 A new "share-the-ride" program established during wartime gas rationing comes under fire from passengers who claim cabs are using it to charge even higher rates than before.

1944 Mayor Earl Riley wants Portland cab drivers to have to display their names and pictures in the car. Cab companies argue this would create "annoyances" for female drivers and begin a long citywide strike.

1953 Seventeen cab drivers are arrested for bootlegging whiskey from the back of their cars.

1978 Under Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, Portland considers deregulating cabs completely to spur competition and decrease fares. Portland's three cab companies protest. "If you open the rates up," one cabbie predicts, "you'll have cab drivers fighting each other in the streets."

1979 Portland creates a cab supervisor position, adopts special flat rates, and allows a fourth cab company to enter the city.

1995 Portland considers new safety rules for cabs, including statewide criminal background checks, limited 14-hour workdays, and age limits on vehicles. Veteran cabbies cry poor: "If I can't make the money I'm making now, I'll leave the business," complains one.

1997 Cheap airport shuttles at PDX gain in popularity. Radio Cab's general manager calls them "parasites." The city's cab supervisor fires back: "Why are [we] protecting the taxi industry at the expense of the public?"
 It's inescapable—Uber is coming to Portland. We explore the backstory of the city's relationship with paid drivers across the decades. It's inescapable—Uber is coming to Portland. We explore the backstory of the city's relationship with paid drivers across the decades. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_637,w_636,x_84,y_101/c_limit,w_640/042015_taxi-01_a3ccov.jpg THE TIMELINE Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10521 2015-03-26T15:00:00-07:00 2015-03-26T15:00:00-07:00 How Women Came to Run this State

Look around. Right now, Oregon is enjoying the reign of an unprecedented group of women leaders, from our governor, Kate Brown, to our state House representative, Tina Kotek, our attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, and our secretary of state, Jeanne Atkins. But wait, there's more! Add Senate president pro tempore Ginny Burdick, Senate majority leader Diane Rosenbaum, and House majority leader Val Hoyle to the list, and it becomes clear that women are pretty much running our state right now.

How did this happen? Well, Oregon history offers a powerful legacy of influential women leaders who we can thank for cobble-stoning the way from 1800 to 2015. Here are nine who should not be forgotten:

SARAH WINNEMUCCA (1884–1891)

The first known American Indian woman to write a book, Paiute diplomat and translator Sarah Winnemucca served as an important—if at times controversially reformist—voice from the Paiute people, one able to advocate in English. She worked in southeastern Oregon for peace and native sovereignty in negotiations with white people who, she wrote, came "like a roaring lion."

ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY (1893–1915)

So influential was Duniway during her over 40 years as a women's rights activist that when—after five failed legislative attempts—Oregon gave women the right to vote in 1912, the governor asked her to personally write and sign the Oregon Woman Suffrage Proclamation.

GEORGIANA MARTIN BURTON (1843–1918)

One of 32 women to found the Ladies' Relief Society in 1867, Burton helped several organizations minister to the needs of homeless women and children. Today Portland provides services to a population experiencing homelessness at the 15th highest rate in the country (among cities), while the education and health services sector employs a higher percentage of women than any other.

HARRIET "HATTIE" REDMOND (1862–1952)

The daughter of emancipated slaves, Redmond was the women's rights activist and black leader serving as president of the Oregon Colored Women's Council in 1912, the fateful year in which Oregon women gained the franchise. She also spent 29 years working as a janitor for Oregon's U.S. District Court; one can only daydream about what might have happened had she presided over it instead.

MARIAN TOWNE (1880–1966)

In 1915, only three years after women's suffrage was achieved in Oregon, Towne went house-to-house campaigning for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives. She won, becoming Oregon's first female state legislator.

NAN WOOD HONEYMAN (1881–1970)

Wood Honeyman became the first female congresswoman, in 1936, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention at which Oregon ratified the 21st amendment, ending Prohibition in 1933. Her father, the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, had represented Socialist feminist icon Margaret Sanger in court when she was arrested by the city of Portland for lecturing about birth control in 1916.

EDITH GREEN (1910–1987)

In a creative and influential twist on Oregon women's tradition of passionate education reform—Winnemucca founded a school for native children, Duniway was involved in public education reform, and women's right to vote in school elections was leveraged by suffragists to gain women the franchise—Oregon congresswoman Green played a pivotal role in passing 1972's Title IX, which prohibited discrimination in federally-funded education programs and changed women's sports forever.

VERA KATZ (1933-)

In 1993 Oregon's first female Speaker of the House, a German-born Jew forced by the Bolshevik Revolution and WWII to flee Europe for New York, became Portland's 53rd mayor. Katz remained mayor for 12 years and is remembered for her passion for school reform and health care—as well as a certain "feistiness" so notable that the Washington Post used that exact word to describe her in 1985, 1998, and 2004.

BARBARA ROBERTS (1936-)

When elected as Oregon Secretary of State in 1984, Roberts became the first state official fêted by a gay choir. She would later become Oregon's first female governor in 1991, and continue to support gay rights and women in leadership.
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1850 While Native tribes in the area were more balanced, Portland's white population skews disproportionately male, typical of most frontier towns: 653 men to 164 women.

1852 An 18-year-old Abigail Scott Duniway, Oregon's future "Mother of Equal Suffrage," arrives with her family via the Oregon Trail.

1862 Oregon allows widows with children to vote in school district elections.

1871 Duniway starts a weekly paper in Portland called the New Northwest, dedicated to women's rights. The publication continues printing until 1887.

1873 Following a visit from national suffragist Susan B. Anthony, Oregon women found the Oregon Woman Suffrage Association to advance their right to vote in all elections.

1878 A new state law allows unmarried women to vote in school district elections.

1881 Missourian Bethenia Owens-Adair completes her medical degree and sets up a private practice in Portland, becoming Oregon's first female physician.

1887 The wives of some of the most prominent men in Portland launch the Portland Women's Union (later the Portland Women's Foundation) to provide a safe, cultured space for newly arrived single women.

1905 Local suffragists hold the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Portland to coincide with the Lewis and Clark Exposition.

1908 The US Supreme Court hands down a landmark decision in Muller v. Oregon, upholding a state law that limited women's work hours to 10 hours per day.

1908 Lola Greene Baldwin is sworn in as Portland's first policewoman—and the first official female law enforcement officer in any US city.

1910 Beatrice Morrow Cannady moves to Portland from Texas. A civil rights activist, Cannady goes on to be one of the first black women to graduate from law school, the editor of Advocate, and the cofounder of Oregon's chapter of the NAACP.

1912 Oregon becomes the seventh US state to grant women the right to vote.

1914 Marian B. Towne of Jackson County becomes the first woman elected to the Oregon House of Representatives.

1921 A new law allows Oregon women to serve on juries.

1937 Democrat Nan Wood Honeyman is elected to the US House of Representatives, becoming Oregon's first congresswoman.

1941 The United States' entry into World War II sees women flocking to jobs in Oregon's shipbuilding industry. By the height of the war, 30,000 women work in Portland's shipyards.

1949 After Mayor Earl Riley is caught in a bribery and corruption scandal, city commissioner Dorothy McCullough Lee becomes the first female mayor of Portland in a landslide election win.

1950 Portland's Beverly Cleary publishes her first children's book, Henry Huggins. Over the next 50 years, the award-winning author writes 30 books and sells over 90 million copies worldwide.

1958 Mary Rosenberg rallies friends to pool their funds to start the Women's Convalescent Home Association (later the Women's Care Foundation), providing residential nursing and rehabilitative support for women.

1969 Portland writer Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness wins the Hugo and Nebula Awards, science fiction's top literary prizes.

1969 Following the passage of SB 193, Oregon becomes one of the first states to legalize abortion in the first 150 days of pregnancy.

1970 After husband Neal dies, Gert Boyle takes over Columbia Sportswear and grows the company into the region's dominant outdoor apparel company.

1981 Corvallis native Barbara Roberts becomes the first woman to serve as majority leader in the Oregon House of Representatives.

1982 Former state senator and state representative Betty Roberts is appointed as the 83rd associate justice of Oregon Supreme Court—the first woman to serve on that court.

1985 Vera Katz becomes the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.

1991 Barbara Roberts becomes the 34th governor of Oregon—the first (and only...for now) woman elected to that office.

1992 Vera Katz is elected as Portland's third female mayor, serving until 2005.

1996 Avel Gordly becomes the first African American woman elected to the Oregon Senate.

2007 Bitch magazine, a publication known for its feminist commentary on popular culture, relocates from Oakland, California, to Portland.

2012 Former federal prosecutor Ellen Rosenblum becomes the first woman to serve as Oregon Attorney General.

2013 The Portland Thorns begin play in the National Women's Soccer League, drawing over 16,000 per game—a national record.

2014 The Portland Women's Foundation merges with the Women's Care Foundation to create the Women's Foundation of Oregon.

Our March issue is all about the multifaceted force of nature that is the #OregonWoman—but we know we could only capture a small slice of the vast experience of Oregon women. Now we want to hear from you. What did we miss in our timeline? Who should be added? Tell us below and we'll grow this document over time.
 Oregon's legacy is rooted in women shipyard workers, suffragettes, sci-fi authors, legal abortion, and kick-ass senators. Get inspired! Oregon's legacy is rooted in women shipyard workers, suffragettes, sci-fi authors, legal abortion, and kick-ass senators. Get inspired! http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_900,w_900,x_150,y_0/c_limit,w_640/bc_8_Fotor_Collage_nlasjh.jpg #OREGONWOMAN Allison Jones tag:www.portlandmonthlymag.com,2005:Article/10150 2015-01-05T08:00:00-08:00 2015-01-05T08:00:00-08:00 Ghost in the Machine

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Behind a nondescript red door on a brick building on SE Third Avenue, there be monsters. The black-iron hulks could easily be mistaken for medieval siege engines.

They are heavy artillery, so to speak, from another era: 19th-century letterpress equipment put back into service, in this case by design firm KeeganMeegan & Co. Part of traditional printing's revival in a time of near-instant digital design, Katy Meegan and Keegan Wenkman's metal giants offer a return to process and physicality, lending letterpress's distinctive tactile qualities to local clients such as Bitch magazine and the Multnomah Whiskey Library. "These are machines you can't just pick up," Wenkman says. "It takes a lifetime to learn."

"Each machine has character," Meegan adds, "a soul."
 Design firm KeeganMeegan & Co. operate 19th-century letterpress machines for the 21st-century print revival. Design firm KeeganMeegan & Co. operate 19th-century letterpress machines for the 21st-century print revival. http://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_533,w_533,x_0,y_134/c_limit,w_640/0115-img-6973_yicuwr.jpg BIG PICTURE Allison Jones


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LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/15/14 -- Hot off its nationwide theatrical run, Grand Entertainment Group (GEG), an independent multi-platform content and distribution company, will release the much anticipated indie thriller "The Insomniac" on DVD January 21. Winner of Best Screenplay at Breckenridge Festival of Film and Action on Film, and Official Selection at both Fort Lauderdale and Dances with Films, "The Insomniac" is directed by Monty Miranda, stars Eddy Salazar (Mansion of Blood); Clare Grant (Black Snake Moan); John Heard (Assault on Wall Street); Keith Szarabajka (Argo); Alimi Ballard (Fast Five); Romina (Stealing Roses); Brett DelBuono (The Cleaner); Steve Agee (The Sarah Silverman Project), and Danny Trejo (Machete).
Only in Hollywood would a real-life nightmare turn into an acclaimed independent film. After experiencing traumatic events in his own life, a home invasion and the tragic loss of both his parents, actor and author Eddy Salazar was inspired to write the psychological thriller "The Insomniac."
The film taps into the psychological torment of John Figg (Eddy Salazar), after someone breaks into his home and takes all of his material and sentimental possessions. This turn of events drives him to a place of desperation and he develops a severe case of insomnia. Blinded by the insomnia-induced madness, he learns that the people around him are not as trustworthy as they appear to be. From that incident on, his life follows only one theme: "When you don't know who to trust, sleep with both eyes open.
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