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FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG ~

Sunshine Division - FreeFood.org

Sunshine Division gears up to distribute over 2,000
Thanksgiving meals amid rising demand in Portland. 

Sunshine Division, Zupan's Market partner to pack Thanksgiving meal ...

Sunshine Division - The Barbers
Donations may also be sent to the main office:

Sunshine Division
687 N. Thompson Street
Portland, OR 97227

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IT’S THANKSGIVING DINNER ON THE TRAIN

Mae's Food Blog: Vintage Ads for Thanksgiving Foods    
    
 

Dome dining car upper level

   
   

The first trip left Portland on June 6, 1935
and was discontinued May 1, 1971.

1939 postcard showing 1935-37 trainset.

The train headed by an EMD E6A locomotive

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NATURE’S MOST DELICIOUS CONFECTION

Vintage Thanksgiving Advertising in the Days of Old | The Lone Girl in a Crowd
1950

The Dromedary brand was established by the National Date
Products Corporation, which was founded in 1917 in New
York City.

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REMEMBERING THE MILK DELIVERY MAN

Milkman delivering milk, 1945 - SuperStock

milk man | Best memories, Milk delivery, Nostalgia

Dairy history articles from Western Canada by Bob Snyder

The first home milk deliveries occurred in Vermont in
1785 in rural Vermont. Today, home milk delivery is
extinct.

Vintage Galvanized Metal Milk Box with Hinged Lid from Queen City Dairy ...
Vintage galvanized milk box for front
porch delivery.

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A REMINDER FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG

National Cheeseburger Day Special Offers For September 18, 2023

The Library of Congress credits Louis Lunch in New Haven
with inventing the hamburger in 1900.
Cheese was first
added 24 years later in California
. Cheeseburgers have
been an iconic American food culture classic since the

1920s.

Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut served the original hamburger.-Travel hungry: Where your ...
Original Louis’ Lunch proprietor Louis Lassen.

Louis Lunch - New Haven CT----> this place invented the hamburger! except they put it on toast ...

Image result for louis lunch new haven ct

Cheeseburger stock photo. Image of gourmet, brown, human - 27656200

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