Came across this entry while browsing through An Oregon Almanac: A Handbook of Fact and Fancy (1940), a fascinating pamphlet produced as a WPA project of The Oregon Writer’s Project. The booklet provides humorous anecdotes and random bits of Oregon History for every day of the calendar year. Considering the city’s ongoing dilemma on how to approach homelessness in Portland, it struck me with particular relevance…
Wow - this is really interesting. I’m so glad you found this. I wonder if to O.C. 1897 law is still on the books or did they deem it unconstitutional (as it most certainly is) long ago? Will we soon be absorbing the wisdom of the O.C. up the road in Stumptown?
not sure, that would be cool to look into. portland looking to oregon city for city policy…good idea.