|  | books.google.com | From a Portland Tribune columnist comes Portland Confidential, the story of Big Jim Elkins, a conman and criminal who arrived in Portland in 1937 and helped unleash prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, and drug running. |
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 | books.google.com | Your one-source guide to Concrete-Based Homebuilding Systems. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). |
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 | books.google.com Annie Hauck-Lawson, Jonathan Deutsch - 2009 - 343 pages | Compiling a portrait that's both fascinating and deliciously fun, Gastropolis explores the endlessly evolving relationship between New Yorkers and food. |
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 | books.google.com There are many ways to divide Portlanders, but so few effective ways to bridge these differences that Portland is on the brink of losing its civic exceptionalism. Portland's rise in civic stature is extraordinary by any standard. It is even more ... |
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 | books.google.com 2012 - 192 pages | Presents an inside look at the food scene, influential restaurants, and chefs in Portland, Oregon, along with a collection of seventy-five recipes. |
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 | books.google.com The historian who wrestled most thematically with Portland's rise and fall as a major North Atlantic port was University of Maine historian Robert Babcock. An economic historian, Babcock treated Portland as part ofthe Maritime Provinces, ... |
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 | books.google.com 58 Board members accepted her rationale, and in 1890 the city of Portland assumed control of the Evening School built by the club.59 Between 1890 and 1910 similar schools were established elsewhere in Oregon and in Washington, ... |
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 | books.google.com As early as 1889, lawyer and litterateur C. E. S. Wood suggested an annual rose show. Civic leaders and journalists made Portland the "Rose City" by the new century and were soon promoting an annual Rose Festival, complete with parades, ... |
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 | books.google.com F. H. Buckley - 1999 - 461 pages Portland's recent decision not to expand the growth boundary in the face of more rapid immigration to the city, however, seems to account for its sudden and rapid rise in housing prices.29 Portland planners have responded to this with plans to ... |
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