Tom McCall Waterfront Park: Portland Oregon
Waterfront Park
Naito Parkway between SW Harrison Street and NW Glisan Street
***General Info***
Acreage: 30.22
Acquired in 1927
***Amenities***
Includes accessible restroom, boat dock, fountain, Fountain - Interactive, historical site, paths – paved, Plaza, riverfront views, statue or public art, trails – biking, and visitor attraction.
***Special Information***
Park hours: 5:00am-midnight
***Program Information***
Park Features:
The Battleship Oregon Memorial was built in 1956 to honor an 1893 ship. It was nicknamed 'the Bulldog of the United States Navy' and fought in many famous battles before it was retired from service. On July 4, 1976, a time capsule was sealed in the base of the memorial. The time capsule is to be opened July 5, 2076.
The Founders Stone honors Portland's founders, William Pettygrove and Asa Lovejoy, who tossed a coin to decide whether their new town would be named Boston or Portland.
Salmon Street Springs was dedicated in 1988, although it wasn't named until a contest was held in 1989. Designed by Robert Perron Landscape Architects and Planners, the fountain is controlled by an underground computer that changes the pattern of the fountain's 185 water jets. The three cycles of the fountain are called misters, bollards, and wedding cake. At full capacity, the fountain recycles 4,924 gallons of water per minute through as many as 137 jets at once.
On August 3, 1990, the Japanese American Historical Plaza was dedicated to the memory of those who were deported to inland internment camps during World War II. In the memorial garden, artwork tells the story of the Japanese people in the Northwest - of immigration, elderly immigrants, native-born Japanese Americans, soldiers who fought in US military services during the war, and the business people who worked hard and had hope for the children of the future. A sculpture by Jim Gion, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, serves as a gateway to the plaza.
A non-profit organization, the Oregon Nikkei Endowment, fueled the commemoration with help from PP&R, Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland Development Commission, and the Portland-Sapporo Sister City Association. Designed by award-winning landscape architect Robert Murase, the plaza is 70 feet wide at its narrowest, 200 feet at its widest. It extends between NW Davis & Naito Parkway (formerly Front Ave) and the Willamette River esplanade for about 300 feet northward from the Burnside Bridge. One hundred ornamental cherry trees link the plaza northward to the Friendship Circle, a collaboration by sculptor Lee Kelly and composer Michael Stirling. From a wide concrete circle rise a pair of 20-foot stainless towers from which emanates music based upon traditional and contemporary Japanese instruments. The sculpture commemorates 30 years of the Sister City relationship between Sapporo, Japan and Portland.
In 1993, the Police Memorial, located at SW Jefferson near the Hawthorne Bridge, was dedicated to Portland police officers who had given their lives in the performance of their official duties.
***Historical Information***
The idea for this park came at the turn of the century when the 1903 Olmsted Report pointed out the need not only for parks within the city, but for a greenway scheme for the riverbanks in order to ensure their preservation for future generations. The 1912 Bennett Plan again showed a need for more parks and river greenways, but instead of reorienting itself to the river, the city's focus was pulled further inland. In the late 1920s, the seawall was built along the Willamette's west bank for the protection of downtown from the annual floods. The seawall not only cut off the water from the people, but the people from the water as well. The construction of Harbor Drive along the west bank in the 1940s continued the trend of isolating the public from the river.
With the opening of the Eastbank Freeway (Marquam Bridge, I-5), Harbor Drive became less important to the traffic flow of the city. Governor Tom McCall created the Harbor Drive Task Force in 1968 in order to study proposals for creating a public open space in its place. In 1974, Harbor Drive was torn up and construction of a waterfront park began. It was completed and dedicated in 1978, gaining instant popularity. In 1984, the park was renamed Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park
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Downtown Character - Portland, Oregon
With almost 600,000 people, Portland, Oregon is a fairly big city, but its downtown feels smaller and is quite walkable. And walking around Portland is the best way to see it. There are a lot of small touches that give downtown Portland a lot of character, from pocket parks to plentiful street art to a handful of quirks, a sampling of which are shown here.
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P11A0001 - Portland is the Rose City and is home to an annual Rose Festival
P11A0022 - Salmon Street Springs Fountain
P11A0025 - At 452 square inches (just over 3 square feet), Mill Ends Park is the smallest park in the world; the city's 5000-acre Forest Park is one of the world's largest urban forested parks
P11A0035 - Raymond Kaskey's Portlandia sculpture, at 34 feet 10 inches, is one of the largest copper repousse statues in the United States, second only to the Statue of Liberty
P11A0047 - As a sign of the Heathman Hotel's dog-friendly policies, a small sculpture of Zelda is located in front of the hotel; Zelda's dog bowl is kept filled with water for passing dogs
P11A0059 - There is a lot of public art around downtown Portland; because I already covered dogs, I figured I'd include Kathleen McCullough's Cat in Repose sculpture for any cat lovers viewing this
P04A0074 - And for you elephant lovers, here is a sculpture of a pair of elephants found in the North Park Blocks
P05A0022 - Union Station, towards the north end of downtown Portland
June 4-2015 Bike Ride Through Portland Streets
Starting at SW Salmon Street Fountain riding down Naito Parkway over Steel Bridge to East Side, Out to Cesar Chavez Blvd and back to Hawthorne Bridge East Side.
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Dark Shot of a Union Pacific Freight Train @ the 60th Ave. Max Station in Portland, Or 040417
Got this Union Pacific freight train early in the morning after working at the United States Post Office. This speedster went east past the 60th Ave. Max Station on the Graham Line and under NE 60th Ave. in the Rose City Park Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon in Multnomah County. If you like my video please, like share comment and subscribe : )
Portland's First Human Protected Bike Lane
Come join us at better naito 9/28 to protest the removal of our protected bike lane.
We start to gather at 5:30 at SW Salmon Street Fountain, then at 6pm we will join together to make a human protected bike lane.
Hope to see you there!
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25 of the Most Creative Sculptures and Statues from Around the World
Every city that you visit has its own unique sculptures and statues, but some really make you look twice—and then some. The most unique and amazing sculptures known to capture the eyes of all who pass can be found tucked along secret streets and broadcasted in popular city squares.
There are many sculptures and statues (both new and old) currently provoking conversation and intrigue. Join the fun looking through these photos of the top 25 most incredible statues and sculptures found throughout the world.
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Number 1: Mujibnagar Memorial Complex, Meherpur, Bangladesh
Number 2: Expansion, New York, USA
Number 3: Salmon Sculpture, Portland, Oregon, USA
Number 4: The Shoes on the Danube Bank, Budapest, Hungary
Number 5: The Monument of an Anonymous Passerby, Wroclaw, Poland
Number 6: Break Through From Your Mold, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Number 7: Black Ghost, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Number 8: Rundle Mall Pigs, Adelaide, Australia
Number 9: People of the River, Singapore
Number 10: Cattle Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
Number 11: The Knotted Gun, Turtle Bay, New York, USA
Number 12: Nelson Mandela, South Africa
Number 13: De Vaartkapoen, Brussels, Belgium
Number 14: Les Voyageurs, Marseilles, France
Number 15: Spider, Tate Modern, London, UK
Number 16: Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia
Number 17: Iguana Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Number 18: Man at Work, Bratislava, Slovakia
Number 19: Mihai Eminescu, Onesti, Romania
Number 20: Life-Size Statues Portray Scene from the World War, Eceabat, Turkey
Number 21: Hippo Sculptures, Taipei, Taiwan
Number 22: Man Hanging Out, Prague, Czech Republic
Number 23: Kelpies, Grangemouth, UK
Number 24: The Unknown Official, Reykjavik, Iceland
Number 25: The Shark, Oxford, UK
Trials biking in downtown Portland.
Shaun Martin and friends ride Ira Keller Fountain, Salmon Street Fountain and Psu.
Livable PDX- Macadam Ridge Development Opposition Aerial Video
Call to Action!
City of Portland's Land Use Hearing's Officer has approved a development called Macadam Ridge proposed by Riverview Abbey Mausoleum against the recommendation of denial by 5 of the 6 reviewing City bureaus. We need funding to fight the deep pockets of these developers and safeguard our city!
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The Proposed Egregious Development
This development would add 21 new single dwelling lots within the South Burlingame Neighborhood north of Taylors Ferry Road between Macadam and Terwilliger. This is the largest undeveloped single family residential parcel within the city limits with Environmental Overlay Zones which were established to protect our city’s natural resources; such as contiguous habitat, urban forest, water quality and much more. If this application is successful, these citywide Overlay Zones safeguarding our environment are now at risk of being overrun by greedy developers!
If approved, the development will have major, local environmental impact by destroying over 500 mature trees, clear cutting all of the land and grading moderate to steep sloped, sensitive environmental lands. It will compromise the watershed, which is one of the last open channel creeks in the city used by endangered Salmon and Trout.
If the impact to the environment isn’t enough, the proposed development is on a known historic very high risk hazard landslide zone mapped by the State. This is a HUGE safety concern affecting the properties of the current residents above the landslide and the future families buying these homes. A foremost Geotechnical expert has deemed this parcel of land as dangerous to build on.
Why Should You Care?
The impact is significant to this environmentally sensitive land and will dramatically change our landscape throughout the City of Portland by setting a precedent allowing developers to destroy other designated Environmental Zones to develop in sensitive areas. This is not a solution to our city’s housing shortage, but a way for developers to rape our environmentally sensitive land to build a small amount of expensive homes.*
We Need Your Help!
An appeal has been filed by the South Burlingame Neighborhood Association (SBNA), and the case will be going before City Council. The tentative council hearing date is February 7th. We have secured an attorney and experts to represent our collective and time is of the essence - we need your help to fund this effort. We expect costs to be:
Environmental/Land Use Attorney: $10,000 and up
Water Resource Engineer: $8,000
Misc Marketing Materials: $2,000
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We have an active volunteer base of 50 people fighting this egregious development for the last 4 years and this is the last and defining moment. We ask that Portlanders unite to protect our city's values ensuring our wildlife, green space, rivers and land is here for generations to enjoy. Please join us in support and show up for the city we all love.
Note:
*The houses slated to be built will likely sell for over $750,000 each and does not contribute to affordable housing stock.
Safety is of huge concern as pedestrian and bicycle safety has not been properly addressed on a known hazardous street.
Livengood Project Overview
Overview of International Tower Hill's Livengood Project including location, access, infrastructure and deposit configurations.
Narrated by Shirley Zhou, VP Corporate Communications
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⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Portland TriMet: MAX Red and Blue Line Trains at Washington Park
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Welcome to the deepest transit station in North America.
The wonderfully unique platforms of TriMet's Washington Park station are 79 meters (260 feet) below the surface, making it one of the deepest stations in the world. It is also the only fully underground station in Portland's extensive light-rail system.
The station is so far below ground level that its high-speed elevators have to travel the equivalent of a 28-story building, which takes approximately 25 seconds. The station has no public stairs or escalators, which is probably for the better.
The station is built in the center of the Robertson tunnel, which connects central Portland with its western suburbs. The station is serviced by the Red and Blue Lines, which travel between Beaverton Transit Center and Portland Airport and Hillsboro and Gresham, respectively.
Trains can be heard from the platforms from over a mile away as they enter the tunnel (and in our humble opinion, Washington Park boasts the greatest train tunnel sounds we've ever heard; listen at 2:15 if you don't believe us).
The station opened in 1998, and might as well be the jewel in the crown of TriMet's light rail system. A geological timeline, visible at various parts of the video, is found along the platform walls. The walls closest to the tracks are exquisitely painted murals of various landscapes and wildlife. The yellow roof girders on the eastbound platform symbolize the sunrise, and the orange girders on the westbound platform are representative of the sunset (the platforms are nicknamed Sunrise and Sunset by TriMet.
The station boasts these elements because it is located next to some of Portland's top attractions: The Oregon Zoo, World Forestry Center, Portland Children's Museum, Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and Hoyt Arboretum are all adjacent to the station in all different directions.
The station is largely made of rock, which when combined with the wind that the trains carry through the platforms, keeps the station at a year-round temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
The digits of Pi are also carved into the wall of the eastbound platform, but only the first 11 numbers are correct. That's really the only thing about this station that isn't perfect.
Very Cold in Bethany Area on Dec 15 2008
a walk in twilight in real cold weather near Christmas in Bethany, Portland, Oregon.
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Man fishing in man-made Fountain...
Oregon Residents Dig Out From Winter Storm
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Residents of Portland, Oregon spent Thursday digging out of a winter snowstorm that surprised evening commuters Wednesday and shut down the city.
Portland area streets on were still littered with abandoned cars after a winter storm brought traffic to a halt a day earlier. People were starting to retrieve their cars. Meanwhile, kids were enjoying the snow - taking to slick hilly streets on sleds.
Only 1-to-3 inches of snow fell around Portland on Wednesday, and pEople were talking about whether the city could do more to keep roads clear of snow and ice during a big storm.
The Portland area does not use rock salt, for environmental reasons, and because winter storms are rare here.
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Heat wave scorches the Northwest
A bicyclist heads through downtown past the Salmon Street Springs fountain in Portland, Ore. on Aug. 2, 2017. Scorching temperatures are predicted for the Northwest Wednesday and Thursday, with forecasters saying Seattle and Portland could top triple digits and break records.
Davi Sobotta holds up her hands as she tries out the last, large tabletop fan available at a Home Depot hardware store ahead of an expected heat wave, on Aug. 1, 2017, in Seattle.
Fans attending Seattle Seahawks NFL football training camp stand near a fan as they cool off at a misting station on Aug. 1, 2017, in Renton, Wash.
Store greeter Danny Olivar, right, lends a hand to a customer to lift an air conditioning unit from a rapidly declining stock at a Home Depot hardware store ahead of an expected heat wave, on Aug. 1, 2017, in Seattle.
People embrace the rising temperatures by splashing around in Keller Fountain Park in Portland on Aug. 1, 2017.
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The Museum at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute: A Whole World Unfolds
On the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, sits one of the west's truly remarkable destinations, The Museum at Tamástslikt Cultural Institute.
A world class facility inside and out, Tamástslikt is the only museum on the Oregon Trail that tells the story of western expansionism from a tribal point of view. Permanent exhibits bring to life the traditions of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Tribes, who have called the region home for 10,000 years. But the museum doesn't merely remember what has been. Tamástslikt (the word means interpreter) connects this rich, storied history to our present day--did you know, for example, that the confederated tribes are recognized leaders in the restoration of salmon habitats?--and then expands the experience further by sharing the dreams and concerns of its tribal community in a moving exhibit called We Will Be.