History UsefulNotes / Portland

* ''Film/TheHunted''. The film features an action scene where Benicio Del Toro's character is pursued through Downtown Portland (notable for a sequence involving a MAX train on the Hawthorne Bridge--in spite of the fact that the MAX doesn't go on the Hawthorne Bridge).

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'' and ''Oregon Trail 5th Edition'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, downtown Portland being just to the south of Vancouver and to the north of Oregon City. In ''Oregon Trail 3rd Edition'' and ''Oregon Trail 4th Edition'', you raft to Fort Vancouver and then travel overland to Oregon City. Between Fort Vancouver and Oregon City, you should encounter Portland, then a tiny settlement on the Willamette River, but neither game includes it.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, downtown Portland being just to the south of Vancouver and to the north of Oregon City. Incidentally, Portland itself was a tiny settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, downtown Portland being just to the south of Vancouver and to the north of Oregon City. Incidentally, Portland was a tiny settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, downtown Portland being just to the south of Vancouver and north of Oregon City. Incidentally, Portland was a tiny settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, downtown Portland being located just to the south of Vancouver and north of Oregon City. Incidentally, Portland was a tiny settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, the area between them being downtown Portland. Incidentally, Portland was a tiny settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your final destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, the area between them being downtown Portland. Incidentally, Portland was an inconsequential settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* Not actually mentioned in ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', but the game ends with you rafting down the Columbia River to reach the Willamette Valley. This places your destination roughly in the location of modern-day Portland. In ''Oregon Trail II'', you raft down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver (present-day Vancouver, Washington) before rafting down the Willamette River to Oregon City. Vancouver and Oregon City are now both within the Portland metropolitan area, the area between them being downtown Portland. Incidentally, Portland was an inconsequential settlement on the Willamette River during the period when the game takes place.

* The first ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movie was largely filmed in and around Portland, [[CaliforniaDoubling although it takes place in Forks, Washington]]. For the second movie onwards, production was moved to [[StargateCity Vancouver, British Columbia]].

* Portland is the main setting for ''{{ComicBook/Stumptown}}'', with the investigation agency itself taking its name from one of the town's nicknames.

* Beverly Cleary's ''RamonaQuimby'' books

Portland is divided into five quadrants: North, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest. North and South are divided by Burnside Street (and addresses along Burnside are merely given the designation of "East" or "West"), while East and West are divided by the Willamette River. North Portland, finally, is basically a peninsula that juts off from Northeast Portland going into the Willamette. Downtown Portland is made up of central Southwest and Northwest Portland, while the "cool" hipstery areas are largely found in Southeast and Northeast (and are where a lot of the neighborhoods accused of having gentrified are located). There is an unofficial sixth quadrant occasionally referred to as "East Portland" or "East County" that starts roughly at 82nd Avenue and runs Eastward until it runs into Gresham, which has a reputation of being significantly poorer, under-served by city and county resources, and less white than the rest of the city, with a heavy Asian and Slavic influence. African-American Portlanders have traditionally been concentrated in North Portland (it used to be that they were "redlined" out of living in any other part of the city) although gentrification has pushed more and more black Portlanders Eastwards.

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}}'s largest city and a major city of UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest
. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX[[note]]Due to the abbreviation for the local international airport[[/note]], Rip City[[note]](mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as {{hipster}}s, {{Granola Girl}}s, or {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' would have you believe. Portlanders are serious about their beer, bicycles, books (Powell's Books is the largest used book store in the world), and food carts.

->''The dream of the 90's is alive in Portland!''
-->--'''[[Series/{{Portlandia}} Jason]] from [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles LA]]''', "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZt-pOc3moc Dream of the 90's]]"

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}}'s largest city and a major city of TheOtherRainforest. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX[[note]]Due to the abbreviation for the local international airport[[/note]], Rip City[[note]](mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as {{hipster}}s, {{Granola Girl}}s, or {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' would have you believe. Portlanders are serious about their beer, bicycles, books (Powell's Books is the largest used book store in the world), and food carts.

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}}'s largest city and a major city of TheOtherRainforest. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX, Rip City[[note]](mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as {{hipster}}s, {{Granola Girl}}s, or {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' would have you believe. Portlanders are serious about their beer, bicycles, books (Powell's Books is the largest used book store in the world), and food carts.

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is Oregon's largest city and a major city of TheOtherRainforest. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX, Rip City[[note]](mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as {{hipster}}s, {{Granola Girl}}s, or {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' would have you believe. Portlanders are serious about their beer, bicycles, books (Powell's Books is the largest used book store in the world), and food carts.

* ''TheHunted''. The film features an action scene where Benicio Del Toro's character is pursued through Downtown Portland (notable for a sequence involving a MAX train on the Hawthorne Bridge--in spite of the fact that the MAX doesn't go on the Hawthorne Bridge).
* ''MrBrooks'': A successful Portland businessman turns out to be a serial killer.
* ''{{Film/Untraceable}}''. The climax prominently features Portland's Broadway Bridge, which made some local headlines when the film was first released.
* The first ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' movie was largely filmed in and around Portland, [[CaliforniaDoubling although it takes place in Forks, Washington]]. For the second movie onwards, production was moved to [[StargateCity Vancouver, British Columbia]].

* The first and final thirds of Gus Van Sant's ''Drugstore Cowboy'' take place in Portland circa 1971.

* ''{{Grimm}}''

Portland is divided into five quadrants: North, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest. North and South are divided by Burnside Street (and addresses along Burnside are merely given the designation of "East" or "West"), while East and West are divided by the Willamette River. North Portland, finally, is basically a peninsula that juts off from Northeast Portland going into the Willamette. Downtown Portland is made up of central Southwest and Northwest Portland, while the "cool" hipstery areas are largely found in Southeast and Northeast (and are where a lot of the neighborhoods accused of having gentrified are located). There is an unofficial sixth quadrant occasionally referred to as "East Portland" or "East County" that starts roughly at 82nd Avenue and runs Eastward until it runs into Gresham, which has a reputation of being significantly poorer and less white than the rest of the city, with a heavy Asian and Slavic influence. African-American Portlanders have traditionally been concentrated in North Portland (it used to be that they were "redlined" out of living in any other part of the city) although gentrification has pushed more and more black Portlanders Eastwards.

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is Oregon's largest city and a major city of TheOtherRainforest. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX, Rip City[[note]](mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as {{hipster}}s, {{Granola Girl}}s, or {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' would have you believe.

->''"The dream of the 90's is alive in Portland!"''

'''Portland, OR''' (not to be confused with Portland, ME) is Oregon's largest city and a major city of TheOtherRainforest. Portland is known for being almost as rainy as UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} but twice as bizarre. Portland's nicknames include the [[FlowerMotifs City of Roses]], Stumptown, Portlandia, PDX, Rip City[[note]] (mostly associated with the city's [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] team, the Trail Blazers) [[/note]] and "the place where young people go to retire". The residents are often stereotyped as [[{{Hipster}} hipsters]], [[GranolaGirl Granola Girls]], or [[NewAgeRetroHippie New Age Retro Hippies]]. It is, however, not ''quite'' as bizarre as Series/{{Portlandia}} would have you believe.

* ''TheHunted''. The film features an action scene where Benicio Del Toro's character is pursued through Downtown Portland (notable for a sequence involving a MAX train on the Hawthorne Bridge - in spite of the fact that the MAX doesn't go on the Hawthorne Bridge).
* ''MrBrooks''. A film about a successful Portland businessman, who turns out to be a serial killer.

* ''Hello Larry''

* The first and final thirds of ''Film/DrugstoreCowboy'' take place in Portland circa 1989.