Old News

As I mentioned in a previous post, when Tim was doing the original demo work in the basement, he came across a stash of old Portland newspapers that had been crammed into a crevice (how's that for alliteration?). It's been fun to look through them and see what meaningless drivel passed for news back then, before folks knew about Britney and Paris (note: not the city; that wasn't discovered until much later).

Here's a shot of the front page of an issue of the Oregonian from July 10th, 1921:



We're planning to find a particularly interesting page from one of the papers and have it framed. We've got a fair number of these things, so if anyone is interested in checking them out and perhaps snagging one or two for your Portland memorabilia collection, feel free.

I found this story particularly amusing (click on the image for a larger, more easily-readable size):