Synopses & Reviews
Many images in Portland-Weird. Wonderful. Bizarre. The Changing City illustrate the weirdness of the past and current day. Sensational city events happened, sometimes photographically depicted in bizarre or morbid images that were offered to the public for sale.
The wonderful photos show moments in time, frozen in excellence, long gone but for a brief moment, icons of a bygone era.
The mantra, “ Keep Portland Weird” has circulated around the city for many years.
It is not necessary to keep Portland that way at all. As long as people exist weirdness has happened and will happen.
Structures are lost with the passage of time. Prosperity, technology and contemporary aesthetics of various eras have resulted in exterior upgrades at times, destroying the visual architectural integrity.
Portland has been blessed with prosperity and given new life in an odd transforming way. Ever evolving and in some cases devolving depending on your point of view.
Over the years progress and ingenuity have brought about transformations in Portland. Some good, others that makes one wonder, what were they thinking?
This book is for those who want to learn and discover the Rose City as it was and what it has become in a weird, wonderful and bizarre way.
It is profusely illustrated with over 200 Images from a variety of collections.
About the Author
Donald R. Nelson began writing about Portland in 1990 and has been photographing the city since the 1970s.