Talk:History of Portland, Oregon

Soccer City USA
Timbers Army, University of Portland's championship, hosting of Women's World Cup games - somebody more knowledgeable than me should draw this stuff together and make an item on this page! -Pete 02:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Art in the 21st Cent.
This section is full of citation needed bits - but I remember a long time ago this text used to be part of an article called something like 'portland art rennasaince'. That article had citations for all of these facts (I found and added many of them, the citation for the Rinder quote for example) - but somewhere along the way they were removed. if someone cares enough to fix this, they can find that original text with all the citations and fix it - or just google the paraphrases and find a source. I can't be bothered, b/c I did it once before and where are we now, back at the beginning... time becomes a loop....where time becomes a loop.... where time becomes a loop... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.234.52.131 (talk) 00:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Pre-european history
This article starts with trappers in the 1830s and 40s and the moves on to Pettygrove and Lovejoy, but surely there must be some history before that. Let's try to find some. Metal.lunchbox (talk) 02:02, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Post-War History of Portland
The gap between the end of the war and the beginning of the 90s is exceptionally poor, and requires more discussion. Literally nothing from the 60s through the 80s is mentioned. The section could deal with greater discussion of civil rights and of vice in Portland.

The History Cooperative article referenced was incorrectly cited in such a way that suggests plagiarism. The citations from the article are also one sided with aspersions cast towards the Teamsters (and referring to the whole of the union when it seems only a small number of men were involved), with no reference to the corruption in the city government, which had ties to other local and national crime syndicates (this is according to the article; it is also likely that city hall had ties to even less savory organizations).

I can't comment on the reportage by the Oregonian cited in the aforementioned article, but generally any commentary by the Oregonian on unions has to be taken with a grain of salt, since the that paper has a long anti-union history. The History Cooperative article has also been removed from its website, so the current link is broken. This a cached version from a personal website.

It's incredibly disappointing that there's little mention of civil rights in any of the articles on Portland outside of the "Demographics" section in the "Portland, Oregon" wiki (some of which could be copied to and expanded upon in the history page) and some of the neighborhood wikis. The history of civil rights, the end of sun down laws and integration is necessary for understanding Portland State University (a HBU), the history and current politics and economics of North and Northeast Portland and the current racial policies of the Portland Police. It would also lay down some good ground work for future discussion of the history of Portland and immigration.

Sorry if this sounds "snippy" to anyone, but I would just like to raise awareness for possible improvements to this page and hopefully catch the attention of someone more qualified with a decent arsenal of sources on hand. Otherwise, I would happily expand on the History wiki, but I need time to find sources. Even though I'm a Portland native a lot of what I know of the city's history is from family history, which isn't exactly the sort of materiel that everyone desires.

Eriol11 (talk) 22:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)eriol11

Timeline of Portland, Oregon
What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 13:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Sources to improve the article
Found this while attempting to locate a source for a {dead-link} and thought it was too good to not put here. Hope a future editor finds it useful to improve this article.
 * History of Portland & Oregon: A Selected Bibliography, Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Revised 3/3/2010 Compiled by Nicholas T. Starin, City Planner II. Darryl.P.Pike (talk) 05:17, 15 April 2018 (UTC)