So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I can't wait to be taken back to the late 40's and early 50's when I was a little girl and my mother and I would take the streetcar from Oregon City into Portland to do a some shopping. Crossing the Willamette River was exciting because you could look out throught the windows and see straight down through the rails to the river below. With the swaying motion and clickity clack of the wheels on rails it never failed to put me to sleep.
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Portland's Streetcar Lines by Richard Thompson
Linda Barton, December 29, 2010
I can't wait to be taken back to the late 40's and early 50's when I was a little girl and my mother and I would take the streetcar from Oregon City into Portland to do a some shopping. Crossing the Willamette River was exciting because you could look out throught the windows and see straight down through the rails to the river below. With the swaying motion and clickity clack of the wheels on rails it never failed to put me to sleep.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)