Lost Oregon is a combination of two blogs I did previously: Roadside Oregon and Stumptown Confidential.
Stumptown Confidential is history – my files were lost when the host flipped some switch. I’m saddened that all my work from 2004-2008 is gone for good. Thankfully I still have the photos and put them up on a Flickr account.
So, instead of Stumptown Confidential just dying I thought I’d keep the whole history thing going by combing both blogs – like I had a choice. So, I’ve imported Oregon Roadside from Blogger to WordPress and will start from scratch. I’ll do the occasional re-post of some of the Stumptown Confidential content as well.
The goal of the site is the same as Stumptown Confidential’s – document the disappearing Portland and Oregon of the recent past – through postcards, photos and words. Due to my geographical location of Portland metro, the site might be more skewed toward the area though.
Enjoy!
Wow. From a professional standpoint, I can tell you I have reservations on hosting WP. But my 2 month old blog cannot compare to freaking 4 years of material/history lost. That just sucks.
Seriously! How could they fuck up like that?
Oh no, it did go!
If its possible, consider keeping a backup on your own computer this time. Thanks for uploading the pictures to Flickr, though.
And thanks for the pictures like the one on this page, as I am interested in how the ramps from the west end of the Steel Bridge were laid out when e.g. there was Harbor Drive.
[...] head over to Lost Oregon. It is a great source of the states forgotten (often Kitschy) history and one of my favorite local [...]
Hello,
I came across your blog and think that you will find a Portland story project that I launched to be of interest. The project, essentially, is a book that is made up of contributions of images and text from Portlanders about Portland. It will be part yearbook, part coffee-table book, part insiders travel guide. I am seeking contributions right now and I am looking for entries from Portlanders of all walks of life, to help make the story of Portland complete. With this project, I hope to create a greater sense of community identity and pride in Portland and capture the spirit of the city at this point in time.
You can find all the juicy details here: http://www.ourportlandstory.com.
I would love for you personally to consider submitting an entry since you already have a plenty of images and material to pull from. I was also hoping you can help get out the word about the submission effort. Anything you can do would be appreciated.
Thanks for you help!
~Melissa Delzio
Your piece on the Castle Restaurant was just forwarded to me. We were neighbors to the Castle (until we moved in 2002) just down Glen Echo Ave. and were disappointed at its demise. It was popular through most of the 1980s and had a noted developer (McMinimans?) that wanted to restore, reclaim, and improve it. The County had other plans and mounted continual roadblocks, as I recall, until he finally gave up.
Just found your site via @lostfortcollins. Re your Stumptown Confidential loss, have you ever tried searching for the site (better yet, individual post titles) in Google and then click the ‘Cached’ option in the search results? You might be able to recover some of the posts.
Thanks Paul – I’ll check it out. Welcome to the site – thanks for coming by via Lost Fort Collins.
Have you tried the Wayback Machine? I found achieves of your old site there.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060616014436/www.stumptownconfidential.com/index.php?archivelist=1
contains January05 to June06
There’s even more here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070711140257/stumptownconfidential.com/index.php?archivelist=1
I hope this helps,
Vic