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PORTLAND’S ROSE FESTIVAL IN 3-D

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Very scarce 3 reel View-Master packet. Only a few exist today.


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The View Master viewer

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PORTLAND ROSE PARADE FLOAT FROM 1949

ROSE PARADE FLOAT 1949

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THE FOUNDER OF PORTLAND’S ROSE FESTIVAL

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Portland Mayor Harry Lane

Harry Lane was Portland’s first Oregon born mayor and the main force
behind the Rose Festival. As a result of decorating for the 1905 Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition, which included a wide variety of
flowering shrubs and roses, Lane elected to begin a festival of
roses in 1907. The center piece of the first rose festival was a
parade featuring horse drawn floats, aquatic events in the harbor
and a night of fireworks displays.

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PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL TICKETS ~ 1956

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PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL ~ 1963

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Queen’s Court Float

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