Dawson Park

07/07/2021

Lew’s Mans Shop located at 109 N Russell Street, 1973. City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2010-003, 1973. View this image in Efiles by clicking here.

05/02/2021

By Legacy Emanuel/Legacy Randall Please join us for a Neighborhood Litter pick-up aroundLegacy Emanuel and Legacy Randall Children’s HospitalMay 8th, 2021 9:30 am-noon Cleaning up Portland on…

05/02/2021

On Wednesday May 5, 2021 at 3:00pm art and activism intersect for the premiere of the 4th episode in Resonance Ensemble’s popular series, Under the Overpass. The free, online film features critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant, Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani, celebrated bass-baritone Damien Geter, and members of EDPA2, a group of survivors and descendants.

Resonance partners with Third Angle New Music and EDPA2 to bare Portland’s redlining history and present a sneak peek at Darrell Grant’s soon-to-be-premiered chamber opera Sanctuaries

10/02/2020

How much more of this can we take fam?

06/01/2020

The Good in the Hood Music and Food festival is the largest multi-cultural festival in the Pacific NW.  This three-day music festival opens with a community parade that travels through Northea…

04/01/2020

Multnomah Falls boondoggle cuts funding to Dawson and other parks (Oregonian, 4/1/1924)

03/25/2020

Here's an interesting video to knock off one of the spare hours so many of us have these days. No login required:

Here's KGW's 1967 documentary about North Portland's Albina neighborhood, called "Albina: Portland's Ghetto of the Mind." KGW followed up with another docume...

03/14/2020

March 14th, 1965: thousands assemble in Dawson Park following the Bloody Sunday marches in Selma. https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2015/01/portland_area_took_note_of_sel.html

12/23/2019

The Sunday Oregonian, March 18 1962.

11/15/2019

Facing southwest at Williams & Stanton, 1931 (that's me in the corner)

10/31/2019

Looking north on Vancouver, mostly across the street tho.