The LPGA has been coming back to the same Portland riverbank for half a century. Columbia Edgewater Country Club at 2220 NE Marine Drive was established in 1924 as Columbia Country Club, and its eighteen holes opened on 11 July 1925 - the seventh eighteen-hole course in Portland - designed by Arthur Vernon "A.V." Macan, the Dublin-born architect who became the premier course designer of the Pacific Northwest's golden age, with more than sixty designs and renovations including Seattle Golf Club a.....

The name upgrade was astronomical pedantry done affectionately: the North Star Ballroom became Polaris Hall, the formal term for the star itself. The 1930 building at 635 North Killingsworth Court in North Portland, an event hall since the 1920s-era roots of the neighbourhood, was purchased in 2017 by Jim Brunberg and Kevin Cradock, the owners of Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall. The room is a 4,500-square-foot vintage ballroom - hardwood floors, 15-foot ceilings, warm-toned walls and a .....

Brad Paisley played a truck stop in 1998; so, over the years, have Travis Tritt, Keith Urban and Phil Vassar. The Ponderosa Lounge and Grill at 10350 North Vancouver Way is the country-music heart of the Jubitz Travel Center in far North Portland, pouring and two-stepping since 1969 under a name borrowed from the ranch on the TV western Bonanza. The setting is genuinely a trucking empire: Moe Jubitz, a Yale graduate who once fielded offers from the Red Sox and Yankees, founded Fleet Leasing in .....

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.....