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TRI-MET’S FIRST COLOR SCHEME

rose city transid buses

portland bus 1978

Portland’s Tri-Met
, replaced Rose City Transit on December 1, 1969, taking
over all operations and facilities.

ORANGE BUS in_1985

Tri-Met’s first Transit Center At Clackamas Town Center, 1985

Ex-Rose_City_Transit_bus,_Tri-Met_575,_in_1985

1966 GM bus

TriMet_look today

A Tri-Met bus today

         TriMet-Logo

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

ap teletype

Rod Stewartthn

Rod Stewartnow

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is 68 today. He is one of the best selling
artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He has
had sixteen top ten singles with four of them reaching number-on on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard ranked him the 17th most successful
artist on their Top All-Time Artists list. Stewart was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.


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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!

greyhound 1945

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HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!

greyhound 1945

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EAST PORTLAND IN THE EARLY 1900s

Laurelhurstad2

Streetcar647-LaIP
A pay-as-you enter streetcar on the East Ankeny line

From the sales brochure “Laurelhurst and Its Park”, comes this photo taken at the
intersection of NE Laddington Court (formerly East 38th St.) and NE Glisan Street.

laurelhurst-neighborhood-arch 

laurelhusrst park postcard
(1938-1945)

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