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Did you know ...

• the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?
• the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?
• the Portland, Oregon, landmark Made in Oregon sign (pictured) originally advertised a brand of sugar?
• the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a "doughnut king"?
• the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon, was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders?
• the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians?
• the 1927 Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, was owned by an ice cream magnate?
• in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove (pictured) and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
• in 1851, Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of Portland, Oregon by a mere four votes?
• in the post-WWII era, the Zidell family business based in Portland, Oregon became the largest shipbreaking operation in the U.S.?
• one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?
• prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate, Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
• the Arlington Club, a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon, excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
• the Central Library in Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design?
• the father of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?
• the defunct Hill Military Academy in Portland, Oregon, was a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters?
• the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
• the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, Ralph Wilcox, killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court?
• the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
• the Umpqua Bank Plaza (pictured), a high-rise in Portland, Oregon, remained named for a failed savings and loan association for 15 years until adopting the present moniker?
• the South Park Blocks have been called the "extended family room" of Portland, as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as the city's "living room"?
• the Portland Armory (pictured) in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
• the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?
• the Jacob Kamm House (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, was built with wooden siding and quoining to imitate stone?
• the Oriental Theatre's chandelier (ceiling pictured) in Portland, Oregon, United States, contained 3,000 light bulbs and weighed 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
• the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum?
• in 1881, George Washington Weidler, owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?
• former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience?
• Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
• Frederick Van Voorhies Holman is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon?
• Henry Weinhard, a brewer in Portland, Oregon, offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?
• Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland, Oregon?
• Hugh O'Bryant, the first mayor of Portland, Oregon, was elected into office by a mere four votes?
• Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes, starlings, nightingales, and other German songbirds to Oregon?
• Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
• Portland, Oregon's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
• Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, is opening a law school in Boise, Idaho?
• Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
• Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
• David Logan, onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon, studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
• Jamison Square, an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon, features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf?
• Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
• a single bucket of water was used to extinguish a three-alarm fire at the Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, USA?
• a 1970 bomb caused US$170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon, but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
• although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
• doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland, Oregon, installed at his drug store?
• eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
• Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?
• Radio23, a radio station based out of Portland, Oregon, provides an international artistic platform for home broadcasters around the world?
• J. K. Gill started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in 1870 that grew to a chain of 63 stores before the company folded in 1999?
• Josiah Failing became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon less than three years after moving there from New York City?
• NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
• One Main Place in Portland, Oregon, was reportedly sold in 2010 for US$12 million less than it was purchased for in 2006?
• Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?