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Tag Archives: Transit Mall

What Change Brings

Pioneer Courthouse Square is my favorite place to meet someone. It’s also the best place to attend a public event, as we saw last Thursday. It’s got a long name, no doubt, but I find I have taken to shortening its name to “the Square” more than once. The space is often marketed as “Portland’s [...]

PDXppl: Diana Banning, Portland’s Archivist

1937 intersection at SE Powell Blvd. & 39th Avenue looking north, one of the many street scenes in the Archives’ collections. Photo courtesy of Portland City Archives A2005-001.517 PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of [...]