Summary
Portlanders spend (waste) a lot of time arguing over what to name stuff. The latest dispute is whether their 39th Avenue should be changed to honor Cesar Chavez, the late labor leader whose activism was carried out mostly in places other than Portland. In 2007, Portlanders fought the same fight over Interstate Avenue. Exhaustion set in, and the street kept its name.
Playing with names used to be fun back in the good ol days. Shirley Ellis, in her hauntingly philosophical tude of 1964, led our chorus: Shirley Shirley bo birley banana fanna fo firley fee fi mo mirley! Shirley! (Some of us sophomore boys devoted long hours to ferreting out first names that would produce vulgarities when we chanted The Name Game.)See the full content of this document
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Whats in a Name? Maybe a Fight!
But name games arent much fun anymore, especially in Portland. In Clark County, were not so argumentative over names. Been there, done that is our attitude. After all, i...
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