Portland Bureau of Emergency Management: Difference between revisions
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|[https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/01/oregon-experience-120th-anniversary-lewis-and-clark-exposition-portland-fair/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery Lewis and Clark Exposition] | |[https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/01/oregon-experience-120th-anniversary-lewis-and-clark-exposition-portland-fair/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery Lewis and Clark Exposition] | ||
|Sometimes called the Portland "World's Fair". 1.8 million visitors arrived in Portland over four months. The emergency management nexus here is not just the crowd, but that the City filled [[wikipedia:Guild's_Lake|Guild's Lake]] in NW Portland shortly after the Expo (the Expo took place on an island in Guild's Lake). As a result, Portland's largest industrial neighborhood is built on fill. | |Sometimes called the Portland "World's Fair". 1.8 million visitors arrived in Portland over four months. The emergency management nexus here is not just the crowd, but that the City filled [[wikipedia:Guild's_Lake|Guild's Lake]] in NW Portland shortly after the Expo (the Expo took place on an island in Guild's Lake). As a result, Portland's largest industrial neighborhood is built on fill. | ||
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|[[wikipedia:Vortex_I|Vortex I]] | |||
|A rock music festival held by Gov. Tom McCall to lure counterculture protesters away from downtown Portland, to coincide with a visit from President Richard Nixon. The gambit is credited with ensuring that Portland did not suffer demonstrations experienced in Chicago, in 1968, during the Democratic National Convention. | |||
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