2010 Calendar Vanishing Portland

by Ray Bottenberg

Vanishing Portland 2010 Calendar is based on teh best-selling Arcadia Publishing title Images of America: Vanishing Portland. Portland at the end of World War II was an international port and a powerhouse of the timber and shipbuilding industries. Oregon's largest city grew and changed in the decades that followed, adding new industries and population. It also endured reductions in shipbuilding capacity, a devasting flood, a declining timber industry, urban renewal, freeway contstruction, and social change. By the 1990s, a wave of globalization and big-box retail marketing swelled shipping at the city's port and swept away a surprising number of Portland

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