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Stray Dogs and Straying Daughters Getting Hitched to a Star The first municipal police with a commanding presence, the Women’s Protective Rock star, film idol, Nobel Prize winner, poet laureate, military woman in the nation, Lola Baldwin appealed to the Division, within the Portland brass, classical composer, Olympic champion, suffragette, world Green Baldwin, retired to Portland City Council. She Police Department. With water-ski champion -- Lake Oswego, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, Lake Grove in 1922 at the pointed out $6,000 had this appointment in 1908 may have had its fifteen minutes of fame. Actress Julianne Phillips, end of a remarkable Portland- been allocated for a dog Baldwin became the first who went to school in Lake Oswego, married rock star Bruce Springsteen on May 13, 1985, in Our Lady of the Lake Church based career. During and pound and promised that municipal woman police on A Avenue. Humphrey Bogart, and his Portland-born wife, after the 1905 Lewis and with half that amount she officer in the United States. Mayo Methot, honeymooned in a summer cottage on North Shore Clark Exposition, young, could help at-risk women. Baldwin chose to keep her unchaperoned women Spending more on stray dogs badge in her purse, not to flocked to Portland to live than on straying daughters carry a gun, and to wear dark and work. Baldwin’s concern embarrassed councilors clothing so that she would be was that they would be prey, into appropriating the more approachable to those as women in other cities that $3,000. Baldwin, however, she was intent on helping. hosted exhibitions had been, was required to pass a Civil Baldwin was instrumental to white slavery, saloons, Service test. High marks in getting a dance hall brothels, amusement parks, earned her the position of ordinance passed that and ragtime dance halls. Supervisor of what became temporarily banned dancing Diminutive in stature, but a new special department, on Sundays and hugging at public dances in Portland. A Lake Oswego parade celebrating Don Schollander’s Olympic victories. Some dancing venues shifted Drive now known as “Casablanca.” Two-time Nobel Prize winner, to riverboats outside the Linus Pauling, lived in Oswego briefly as an infant and spent many City’s jurisdiction. One summers at his grandparent’s house in First Addition. Renowned oft-repeated anecdote is local poet, William Stafford, was appointed United States Poet illustrative of Baldwin’s Laureate in 1970. From 1939 until their move to Agate Beach in resolve. A disgruntled man 1941, Swiss-born composer Ernest Bloch and his wife lived near pulled a revolver on her their son Ivan in Lake Grove. Nathan Farragut Twining, who and she calmly told him to became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President go ahead and shoot since Eisenhower, grew up in a house that still stands in the Glenmorrie her work would be carried neighborhood. Swim coach, Martha Schollander was a stunt on after she was gone. The swimmer in Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan films. In 1964, her son, Don Schollander, was the first swimmer to win four gold medals in assailant left Baldwin’s office the Olympics. Sara Evans, who once lived on Furnace Street, played without incident and was later a major role in the 1912 victory for women’s suffrage in Oregon. Lola Baldwin forged a career path for policewomen such as Lake Oswego’s convicted and imprisoned. Willa Worthington began water-skiing on Oswego Lake as a teenager Doris Volm (left) and Clarice Maxwell shown in this 1964 photograph. and subsequently brought the town fame by garnering eight national and three international titles during her career on skis. Worthington was also a star performer at Florida’s Cypress Gardens. So hitch your Satellites Launched in Lake Oswego wagon to a star. After all, Clark Gable once worked as a tie salesman “Super Satellites” were a type at Portland’s Meier & Frank department store. of monohull sailboat originally favored by the founders of the Lake Oswego Sailing Club. Past Tents Sailboat owners who lived on Tents date back to the earliest cost $1 to rent, while an eight- Oswego Lake, including Tony nomads and are one of the person boat cost $2.50. Nelson Dresden and Bob Young, first forms of shelter ever also owned several ‘tent cottages’ formed this club in the early constructed. Rustic tent and a summer ice cream stand. 1960s. An annual two-day event, cottages, built with wooden The cottages, four-foot wooden the Lakewood Bay Regatta, was sides and a canvas roof, once sides with tent roofs, sat nestled held each August along with dotted the eastern end of the in a pine grove a short distance other races throughout the lake. According to the City of from the rowboat rental area. A year. Whether there were gale- A sailboat on Lakewood Bay in 1962. Lake Oswego’s 1989 Cultural few, heated with wood stoves, force winds or balmy breezes, woman’s undergarment was the club disbanded. There are Resources Inventory, “David were occupied all winter.” the races proceeded. Intrepid flown at the end of the race as photographs of sailboats on Nelson leased the lake shore The Nelson family’s business, sailors were sometimes capsized a sign of protest. In 1974 there the lake dating back to 1900. property from the Oregon Iron started in 1904, was the first by wind and had to withdraw were 78 races as well as social Perhaps with the current focus & Steel Company for $1 per commercial promotion of the from the race. On at least one gatherings of the club. The club on sustainability, what’s old will boat per month. By the time lake for recreational purposes. occasion, women protested roster in 1980 listed 51 sailors be new again, and wind-powered Nelson died in 1923, he had a During the iron era, Sucker the male-dominated races and and 19 types of boats. Later sailboats will dot the lake once fleet of 50 rowboats, which he Lake (now Oswego Lake) was organized a women-only race. in the 1980s, the interest in again. rented out from a concession on stump-filled and unattractive to Instead of a flag, a red-colored sailing on the lake waned and the lake. A four-person rowboat all but curious children.

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Lillian but residents complained for system that started operation Webster recalled, “There was a years of the increased taxes in 1895, the City of Portland spring down not too far from to pay for this service. Karl considered Oswego’s Sucker the foundry where Oswego Faucette recalled, “I think some Lake as a possible water source. used to get its water and Dad of the first, if not the very first, Ultimately the Portland Water could see that they didn’t have pipes that were laid between Company decided to build enough. They had no water to Bull Run Lake, up near Mt. the Palatine Hill pumping fight fires.” Hood, and Portland were used station, on the riverbank of to bring the water down to the Willamette, in today’s Some townspeople, including Portland. I think there were Dunthorpe. Water was simply Webster’s father and Mr. two pipes, and they supplied pumped out of the then Newlands, superintendent of Portland with all the water they polluted river and delivered to the Oregon Portland Cement needed at that time. The city user’s taps resulting in many Company, advocated getting was between eighty and ninety deaths from typhoid fever. In Bull Run water for Oswego. thousand [people].” A steamboat on the Willamette River opposite the Oswego Landing. Oswego water was mostly taken They were ultimately successful, Lillian Webster also The local steamboat era lasted almost one hundred years. In 1866, commented, “Do you remember the Minnehaha had the distinction of being the first and only when the Olympic Games were steamboat to operate on Sucker (now Oswego) Lake. It was a small played in Los Angeles [this sternwheeler, about 70 feet long, built and operated by the People’s was in 1932]? Well, I went to Transportation Company owned by John C. Trullinger. It was a link the games in Los Angeles, and in a transportation system between Portland and Hillsboro. For the while I was there, they were first half of the round-trip, the steamer Yamhill would navigate the selling Bull Run water on the Tualatin River, at Colfax there was portage to the Minnehaha on streets in huge containers. Los Sucker Lake, cargo was portaged again to the Oswego Landing on Angeles had the worst water in the Willamette River and loaded onto boats bound for Portland. The Oswego Pipe Foundry supplied pipe for the construc- the world. They were selling Bull tion of the Bull Run water system that is still in use today. Run water.” Many steamboats operated on the Willamette River and there were four landings near Oswego. The Oswego Landing was situated at the confluence of the Willamette River and Sucker (now Oswego) A Medieval Castle with an Oswego Lake Moat Creek. Incredibly, it looks today much like it did over a century ago. Once upon a time in 1910, work to the locally unemployed. Herbert Letcher Nelson recalled, “I remember going down there Danish immigrant, Carl C. According to a December [Oswego Landing] and holding up my hand to a big steamboat Jantzen, and his partners, 1930 newspaper account, the coming up the river. They would put down the gangplank, I would founded the Portland Knitting mansion was predicted to walk up on deck to where the purser was standing and hand him a Company, which manufactured cost about $410,000 (about quarter, which was the price for a ride to Oregon City. It wasn’t a sweaters, hosiery, and jackets. $5.8 million dollars today). paying proposition, of course. But in those days they didn’t think That same year a local rowing The setting was perfect for so much of the money. That was a regular stop and if somebody team member asked if they showcasing Jantzen products wanted a ride they would stop. That was a common way to get to could make rowing trunks with with swim competitions, bicycle Oregon City. There was no other way, no other transportation Jantzen’s medieval-style stone unless you wanted to walk the five miles. But it was a great thing in an elastic rib stitch which would boats, and swim parties. There boathouse designed by architect stay up without a drawstring. are three separate National Richard Sundeleaf. Photo those days.” This serendipitous request led Register of Historic Places courtesy of Hilary Mackenzie. to a swimsuit innovation, an designations for the Jantzen Jr. and Oneita. The owner after The Oswego Iron Works Landing, near the second iron furnace, automated circular knitting Estate: the house designed by Jantzen was Harry K. Coffey, was located in the area that is now Foothills Park. The Elk Rock machine that was patented Charles Ertz, the boat house an insurance executive, and landing near Tryon Creek connected to the terminus of the narrow in 1921. The wealth this designed by architect Richard in 1956 the island was sold to gauge railroad before the trestle was built around Elk Mountain. innovation generated enabled Sundeleaf, and the Sundeleaf- Carl Halvorson, the developer The fourth one was Walling’s Landing, also known as Morey’s Jantzen to build a palatial designed bridge. of Mountain Park, Little Whale Landing, south of Oswego. Parker Farnsworth Morey, and his wife, English Tudor style estate Cove in Depoe Bay, and Black Clara, owned the land that is now the Glenmorrie neighborhood. on what has become known Prior to Carl Jantzen’s Butte Ranch in central Oregon. P. F. Morey, President of the company that became PGE, would off- as Jantzen Island in Oswego occupancy of the island in For a time the island was called load trees from around the world to adorn their estate. The landing Lake. Jantzen paid $50,000 for Oswego Lake it was known “Halvorson Island.” Jerry was also used to load the Morey family when they left their eleven- the island and Oswego Lake as “Crazy Man’s Island” for Stubblefield, founder of the bedroom “shack” to travel to their other homes in Oregon City or provided the natural “moat.” a recluse who inhabited it. Avia shoe company, has owned Ilwaco, Washington. Often the family cow was taken along as one Work began in 1931, at the Jantzen named the island the island since 1987. In 2008 of the passengers so the children would have fresh milk. height of the Great Depression, “Carneita,” a combination of the estate was listed for $19.5 motivated in part by providing the names of his children, Carl million dollars. Lakewood’s Just Ducky The “Duck Pond,” as locals Lake Oswego Takes Off called it, was situated northeast Portland” in 1936. of Sucker (now Oswego) Lake. During the iron era, Earl The purchase of land by Mr. Hughes recalled, “there was & Mrs. Fields in the early an eighteen-inch steel [it was 1950’s began a slow process of actually wooden] pipe coming development in the northwest from the main lake and going The duck pond, before it was through the duck pond down transformed into Lakewood corner of the city. Prior to that Bay, can be seen on the left time, agrarian pioneers such as to the smelter, with a gate to in this photograph. the Kruse, Stone, and Wilmot control the water.” Hughes referring to Lakewood Bay by The Amart airstrip in what is now the Westlake neighborhood. families farmed the majority of was referring to the second its former name. A 1925 Ladd Photo courtesy of Karen Wallace Sorenson. land in this area. iron furnace located in what is Estate Company brochure, Amart, a private airstrip, when the aircraft’s tanks were now Foothills Park. As high- perhaps prematurely, declared once existed in the area that filled with the wrong fuel, an Upon Mr. Field’s death in 1969 end residential development “Of all Lake Oswego’s districts is now part of the Westlake explosion ensued, and Field’s much of his land was bequeathed replaced iron as Oswego’s Lakewood is the most accessible neighborhood. It was the only son, Philip, and grandson, to Lewis & Clark College who largest industry, the duck pond –the nearest—possessed of private airport in Oswego. Terrence, died in the crash upon in turn sold it to the Church didn’t fit the vision of the modern advantages. There is no Arthur Fields, a prominent takeoff from the Troutdale airport. of Latter-Day Saints. Mormon town’s largest developer, the more beautiful spot anywhere.” automobile dealer, constructed leaders ultimately decided to Ladd Estate Company. The A decade earlier Ward Cotton the airstrip and hanger amid Fields founded Arthur L. Fields develop the land and the Westlake channel that had been used Smith said he had come “out hayfields in the mid-1950s. Chevrolet Company in Portland subdivision and the Centrepointe to pipe water was enlarged to Oswego to look for the lake The name “Amart” was a and he was an active civic leader. commercial development was the to flood the duck pond and and we found a mud hole down combination of “Am” in honor He served as President of the result. Amy and Arthur Field’s thus the more attractive and here on State Street.” Perhaps a of Field’s wife, Amy, and “art” Portland Rose Festival, President house, designed by Richard renamed Lakewood Bay was rubber duck race on Lakewood for “Arthur.” Unfortunately of the Community Chest, and Sundeleaf, still stands in the Holly created in 1928. An ordinance Bay could be organized to pay tragedy struck the family was honored as “First Citizen of Orchard neighborhood. was proposed to fine anyone homage to its humble origins. THE CENTENNIAL, LAKE OSWEGO, OR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 -- 3 Street Smarts Merry Miss Oonette The streets of the original town Land Claim for the townsite in of Oswego were officially named 1850. Leonard Street honors General Ralph W. Kirkham of on January 10, 1867 when John Hermon Camp Leonard, Vice San Francisco served with Louis Corse Trullinger filed the town President of the Oregon Iron McLane, a Director of Oswego’s plat. A. A. Durham had platted Company. Corbett Street, which Oregon Iron Company, as a the town in 1850, but it was no longer exists, was named for trustee of The Pacific Women’s never filed. Trullinger used Henry W. Corbett, a wealthy College and they both were pig iron from the first Oswego Portland capitalist and iron veterans of The Mexican War of casting to mark blocks one and industry investor. Green Street 1846. There is a Kirkham Street two of the townsite. The pig honors the brothers, Henry D. in San Francisco named for the at Ladd and Durham is still in and John Green. The Greens, General. Perhaps he is also the place. Also, most of the streets, along with Ladd, signed the namesake for Oswego’s street. with their original names, still 1865 Oregon Iron Company’s Until researchers can verify An Iron Mine Farm envelope featuring an unidentified cow. Perhaps it’s exist. Kirkham Street, which Articles of Incorporation. this assumption, the naming of Merry Miss Oonette? Photo courtesy of Marylou Colver. was platted one block north of Wilbur Street is probably Kirkham Street will remain a Prize livestock with names such as “Merry Miss Oonette,” “Darling Leonard Street is an exception named for George D. Wilbur, a history mystery. Glow Crews,” and “Sultan’s Birdie” once grazed on William Mead and a mystery. What continues Connecticut man Ladd’s Iron Mine Farm. A 1919 Pacific International Live Stock to stump local historians is the who served as the Exposition catalog contains an advertisement for the farm’s Jerseys. reason why a street was named superintendent “The great sire, Golden Glow’s Chief, No. 61460, bred by us, “Kirkham.” during construction sire of four of the eight World Records of the breed. Two of his of the furnace. sons head the herd.” Ladd won many awards at Portland’s Pacific It is probably a safe assumption The street that International Live Stock Exposition. Iron Mine Farm was later that it was named after a parallels Wilbur transformed into the Oswego Lake Country Club. prominent person like other Street one block to streets in the original townsite. the north is named William M. Ladd, a son of William Sargent Ladd, formed the Ladd Street was named for Church Street Ladd Estate Company in 1908. The Ladd Estate Company William S. Ladd, founder of the because it was the converted other family-owned Portland-area farms into residential Oregon Iron Company, one- site of the first developments. Hazel Fern Farm, for example, became Laurelhurst time Mayor of Portland, and the church in Oswego, and Crystal Springs Farm became Eastmoreland, Westmoreland, wealthiest man in the Northwest the Methodist and part of Reed College. at the time of his death in 1893. Episcopal Church. Country Club Districts near large cities were a trend sweeping Durham Street, once named Furnace Street, on the nation in the 1920s. Why waste precious hours of leisure time Durham Place, was named for the bluff above the commuting to the golf links? The Country Club was the centerpiece Albert and Miranda Durham river, leads down to of the Ladd Estate Company’s Oswego development. In the who filed the first Donation the iron furnace. John C. Trullinger’s 1867 plat of Oswego. surrounding residential districts, street names such as Prestwick, Westward Ho, Troon, and Glen Eagles honored famous golf courses in the United Kingdom. The cost of building the club was half a The American Dream for $350,000 million dollars. Former Seattle mayor, George F. Cotterill, was the The Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland opened the gates on the first street of custom engineer on the project and he was one of the best on the West homes in 1976. Four years later, the fifth annual Street of Dreams was held for the first time in Lake Coast. Architect Morris H. Whitehouse designed the Arts and Oswego. Dick Edwards, the Chairman in 1980, noted, “You, the viewing public, have a rare oppor- Crafts style clubhouse in 1925. In 1926, Henry Chandler Egan laid tunity, not likely to be found in any other city in the world. This is the street where dreams begin, so out the eighteen-hole course. Egan later remodeled the course at enjoy the excitement of luxury living, but remember that these beautiful and expensive homes are not Pebble Beach and was the architect of many other courses as well as indicative of the basic housing market.” an accomplished amateur golfer.

In the Tabaridge development, part of today’s Holly Orchard neighborhood, homes with names such as “The Tiara II,” “The Elegance,” and “The South Television’s Reception Castle” were part of the lineup. Prices ranged from The television crew spent two $225,000 up to a $350,000 price tag for “The Ameri- months, of which six weeks can Dream” house. These homes were fully furnished were on-site, preparing for the and landscaped to elicit an “I could just move in!” re- live show hosted by Arlene sponse from tour goers. One special feature was “The Francis and Hugh Downs. Visible House.” This home was envisioned as a living Dorothy recalled, “For six test laboratory for evaluating energy conservation weeks you couldn’t go to the measures. Rooms were purposefully left in various bathroom and be sure that stages of construction to give viewers a behind-the- there wouldn’t be some camera walls glimpse of various types construction materials. looking through the window Visitors could see foam and fiberglass wall insulation or something. We had cables first-hand, a cutaway in the floor revealed ground va- going in and out of the doors por barriers and heated crawlspaces, the living room so that you couldn’t lock up was equipped with a fuel-efficient wood stove, and your house at night. And just An advertisement for “The American Dream” from the garage contained a solar storage tank for heated no privacy, not nothing.” the 1980 Street of Dreams tour program. water. Because of the East Coast time difference, preparations began at 3:00 AM on the day of the The $6.4 Million Dollar Question shoot to be ready for the 7:00 To build an exclusive resort Evidently, Paul C. Murphy also of years. An April 3, 1930 article AM live broadcast. Pacific hotel in Oswego or not was a envisioned Oswego as a vaca- states, “When the hotel will be Back in 1955, when television Telephone & Telegraph crews question being posed in 1930. tion destination. In 1930, his built is a matter of conjecture. reception fluctuated with the had strung 1,000 feet of cable Paul C. Murphy, the Ladd plan was to build a half-million A report is in circulation that level of the lake, the home of from the Kisky residence across Estate Company’s visionary dollar resort hotel; that amount stock is now being sold in the Dr. and Mrs. Christian Kisky on the lake. Antennae installed developer, made most of his in today’s dollars is approxi- enterprise and that sufficient Greenbriar Road was selected on the top of Iron Mountain dreams for Oswego come true. mately $6.4 million. It was to be financing has been assured to to be on a national television relayed the signal to Mt. Scott He was responsible for building located south of Ladd Street and make certain its erection during program, The Home Show. and on to the company’s central the Oswego Lake Country Club, east of present-day Highway 43, the coming summer.” For better Dorothy Kisky didn’t return the offices in Portland and then to the polo field, the Lake Oswego essentially where the ball fields or for worse, the hotel never got first call from NBC staff because a nationwide broadcast. The Hunt, bridle paths on what is in George Rogers Park are today. off the ground. It was one of she assumed it was a neighbor’s show featured young women in now called Iron Mountain, both Situated between the Willamette the few Ladd Estate Company practical joke. NBC staff called Jantzen swim suits, the Kisky’s the Lake View Park (now the River and Oswego Lake, it was projects that did not become from New York a second time daughter Karen on water skis, Lake Grove Swim Park) and the thought to be an ideal location. reality. Funding for the project and it clearly wasn’t a prank. and a mother duck with her Oswego Municipal Park on the A petition was circulated to and guests for the luxury hotel The Kisky’s wooden chalet style ducklings paddling on the lake east end of the lake. The resort- vacate certain streets and alleys were probably scarce in the face house reflected their Danish in front of the house. like amenities were designed to make way for the develop- of the Great Depression that heritage and their house was to support the company’s sales ment. Evidently, the idea had gripped the country during selected in part because wood An interior photograph of the slogan, “Live where you play.” been in the works for a number these times. was the theme of this episode. Kisky’s home. THE CENTENNIAL, LAKE OSWEGO, OR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 -- 4 The Intersection of Heaven and Hell A Pipe Dream The Trinity School stood at A. Durham for $400.00. An in Panama, his nose was broken the intersection of present-day advertisement in The Oregonian with a club, his hand was burned, Church and Furnace Streets, from July 5, 1856 states, “ The he was shot in the chest, robbed, dubbed by some local pundits as object will be the gradual and and left for dead. Unbelievably the corner of “heaven and hell.” harmonious development of the he survived this assault and made It was an Episcopal boarding child’s spiritual, moral, mental, his way to Oregon to carry on school for boys that opened in and physical nature, by exercises missionary work. 1856. In 1855 Reverend Thomas chiefly oral or conversational, F. Scott, Missionary Bishop of calculated to unfold, train, and The Trinity School closed the Protestant Episcopal Church strengthen his various faculties.” permanently in 1866. The of the U. S. in Oregon Territory It was the first private school, building was sold to the Oswego purchased 67 acres from A. and one of the first schools, in Iron Company and converted to a boarding house for men Oswego. The annual tuition of Oswego pipe foundry workers about 1915. working at the iron furnace. $200 was payable in advance Prior to the manufacture of metal pipe, water was piped through “The Portland Hotel,” as the and it was noted that books and hollowed out logs. In 1888, the Oregon Iron & Steel Company boarding house was called, stationery and washing were not built a second iron furnace in what is today’s Foothills neighbor- lasted for 15 years. The building included. hood. Five hundred yards north of the furnace, they constructed sat vacant and eventually was the Oswego Pipe Foundry, the first pipe foundry west of St. Louis. At one time the Reverend destroyed by fire in 1901. The foundry was awarded the contract for manufacturing the cast- James R. W. Sellwood, one of The Trinity School was the iron pipe for Portland’s Bull Run water system. Twenty-five tons of the brothers after whom the forerunner of Portland’s Bishop cast-iron pipe a day were manufactured. Herman Blanken recalled, Sellwood neighborhood is Scott Grammar and Divinity “They made the pipe here, forty-five inch cast iron pipes. They named, was an assistant teacher. School, the Bishop Scott had a big furnace where they melted it, and a monster big crane The two brothers had made their Academy, and the Hill Military in there. And this crane had like a dipper on it. They would put way to Oregon together via the Academy. The school operated in there, four, five tons of molten iron. Then these men would An Oswego Trinity School boy Isthmus of Panama. Reverend in Portland under the latter prepare everyday, they would make the molds for the next day for standing next to his Penny- John D. Sellwood, was attacked name until 1959. Farthing bicycle. these pipes. The molds were cast iron and the cores were from clay.” The clay to which Blanken refers came from the Duck Pond, i.e., Lakewood Bay. After a few hours the iron was cool enough to Losing Sight of the Fog Bell remove the pipe from the molds, the mud was hammered off, and A sternwheeler named Claire plied the Willamette the pipe was tested for quality. In 1972 Earl Faucette said, “Lots of River for over 50 years and made many stops at people don’t know that those old cast iron pipes are still in there landings in Oswego. The 160-foot Claire, like and doing duty yet [between Bull Run and Portland]. I suppose other steamships on the river, was propelled by a they will be there when Gabriel blows his horn.” The pipe foundry single paddlewheel along its stern. The wheel was discontinued operation in 1928. powered by a high-pressure steam engine. In 1952, the steamer was retired from service in Western Transportation’s fleet. The ship was piloted to Pinball and Painted Sheep Champoeg State Park where it was converted The Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, log rafts in the Racketeering and political corruption were rampant in Portland in to a carpenter’s shop. Bob Potter of Western Willamette, and The Claire in the background circa 1944. the 1950s. Teamster Union officials and local racketeers provided Transportation said, “I hated to see that it was In memory of the steamer Claire, the Sternwheeler kickbacks to the Multnomah County district attorney, William made into a carpenter’s shop. Those old boats Men’s Association mounted the ship’s fog bell, a Langley, and other law enforcement officials so they could operate were really a treasure.” Another old-timer, Frank piece of local maritime history, on a pedestal with the city’s booming vice industry without interference. The under- Yount, who worked on steamships for nearly 50 a plaque in George Rogers Park. In 1985 thieves belly of corrupt Portland drew national attention and Robert F. years, said, “That [the Claire] was my favorite hacked the bell off its pedestal and this remnant of Kennedy, chief counsel to the 1957-1959 Senate Labor Rackets boat.” Oregon college students also used the ship history disappeared forever. At the time, it was one Committee, was pursuing Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, while Ken- in a film entitled, They Blew For Every Landing. of only a few historic markers in Lake Oswego. nedy was also involved in Portland’s federal cleanup. One of the players, Stanley G. Terry, a pinball operator, lived on Skirting the Issue West Point Road in the Lakewood neighborhood. Pinball, a game of chance, not skill, was considered a form of gambling. In an effort Hops, used for making beer, suit, so to speak, and they accepted. U. S. legislation to combat the illegal gambling problem, the City of Portland, like yeast, and medicine were picked hops wearing dresses. passed in 1972 signaled the end many other cities across the nation, banned pinball machines. Stan introduced to Oregon in 1867. of dress codes and women could Terry’s attorney, testing the constitutionality of the edict, appealed Between World War I and II, It’s difficult to fathom from no longer be required to wear it to the United States Supreme Court. According to Phil Stanford, Oregon was one of the world’s a modern perspective, but dresses. At the time C. Herald author of Portland Confidential, “In 1967, Stan Terry, who, follow- largest producers of hops. Locals whether or not women should Campbell, who later became ing the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Portland’s pinball ban, had seasonal work in stringing wear pants, an exclusively Mayor of Lake Oswego, was had been forced into other illegal activities, fractured his skull in a hop vines to wires, hoeing masculine garment, was a highly Personnel Director at Pacific fall from a ladder while painting his home in Lake Oswego. Upon weeds, and later harvesting controversial issue. Later in Power & Light Company. recovering, he became a frequent candidate for political office, run- hops when they ripened in history women occasionally Campbell celebrated the change ning at various times, quite unsuccessfully, for mayor, city commis- August and September. Women wore pants for wartime and in the company’s dress code by sioner [regardless of the fact that he wasn’t a resident of Portland], and teenagers were the fastest industrial jobs, but it wasn’t wearing his kilt to work on the county commissioner, and governor.“ pickers. Hops were placed in until 1970 that women’s pants day women employees first wore a basket and two baskets filled became fashionable and truly pantsuits. According to a former neighbor, Stan Terry kept a flock of sheep a sack. Local families gathered on another parcel of land in the city. Since farm animals were not together and picking hops was allowed within the city limits, Terry spray painted the flock and a source of income as well as a told officials that they were not sheep because such brightly colored seasonal social event. Harvest sheep didn’t exist. time was an occasion for dances and other entertainments. Hop picking was not without Did You Know? controversy. In 1906 a debate Abraham Lincoln was the raged in the Oregon press over attorney for the Durham family whether women picking hops when they lived in Springfield, should be allowed to wear Illinois. Lincoln urged Albert pants. From turn-of-the-century Alonzo Durham to head west. photographs it appears that Oswego hop-pickers at harvest time. Notice the two Oswego women did not follow men on either side who “hopped” into the baskets.

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