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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Race cars run where a city of 40,000 people once stood. Portland International Raceway at 1940 North Victory Boulevard occupies the site of Vanport, Oregon - the wartime housing city built in ten months for Kaiser shipyard workers, once the second-largest city in the state, destroyed in half an hour on Memorial Day 1948 when a railroad berm failed and the Columbia River poured through. When Portland bought the 640 low-lying acres from the Army Corps of Engineers in 1960 for 175,000 dollars, all...