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* Eugene: The state's second largest city, Eugene is best known as the home of the University of Oregon. The city has a reputation for being a bastion of alternative lifestyles, and its residents are often stereotyped as being {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. The suburb of Veneta is home to the Oregon Country Fair, which arguably never left the Summer of Love culturally speaking. The city is also known as "Track Town USA" due to its association with the sport of track running, and hosted the 18th Track and Field World Championships in 2022.

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* Eugene: The state's second largest city, Eugene is best known as the home of the University of Oregon. The city has a reputation for being a bastion of alternative lifestyles, and its residents are often stereotyped as being {{New Age Retro Hippie}}s. The suburb of Veneta is home to the Oregon Country Fair, which arguably never left the Summer of Love culturally speaking. The city is also known as "Track Town USA" due to its association with the sport of track running, and hosted the 18th Track and Field World Athletics Championships in 2022.[[note]]The sport that Americans and Canadians call "track and field" is part of the internationally recognized sport of "athletics". The sport's international governing body calls itself World Athletics.[[/note]]
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Oregon now allows self-service gas statewide.


Along with UsefulNotes/NewJersey, it's long been one of two states to outlaw self-service gas. A 2018 law allowing it under limited circumstances (customers can now pump their own gas only at stand-alone gas stations in counties with fewer than 40,000 residents) led to the sort of public freakout that was a true headscratcher to those in the other 48 states where self-serve has been the norm since TheSeventies, to the extent that full-service gas stations are now seen as outright strange in most states.

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Along with UsefulNotes/NewJersey, it's long been From 1951 to 2023, Oregon was one of the two states to outlaw (along with UsefulNotes/NewJersey) that outlawed self-service gas. gas (NJ still outlaws it). A 2018 law allowing it under limited circumstances (customers can now could pump their own gas only at stand-alone gas stations in counties with fewer than 40,000 residents) led to the sort of public freakout that was a true headscratcher to those in the other 48 states where self-serve has been the norm since TheSeventies, to the extent that full-service gas stations are now seen as outright strange in most states.
states. The ban on self-service was fully lifted in 2023, though with limitations. No more than half of the pumps at any station can be self-service, and at least one employee must be present at all times to pump gas. Also, stations are not required to offer self-service.
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* ''Film/LeaveNoTrace''
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* ''ComicBook/{{iZombie}}'' is set in Eugene.

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* ''ComicBook/{{iZombie}}'' is set in Eugene. The TV series moved the story to Seattle.
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* Creator/MattGroening, creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is a native of Oregon, and [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/?no-ist= revealed that]] Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield This does not necessarily mean]] [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-simpsons-springfield-not-in-oregon-1045968/ Springfield is set in Oregon, however.]])
** Several [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Simpsons characters]] share last names with streets in Portland, for instance {Sideshow Bob} Terwilliger and (Reverend) Lovejoy

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* Creator/MattGroening, creator of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is a native of Oregon, and [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/?no-ist= revealed that]] Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon. ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield This does not necessarily mean]] [[https://www.tvguide.com/news/exclusive-simpsons-springfield-not-in-oregon-1045968/ Springfield is set in Oregon, however.]])
]]) This has not stopped Springfield, Oregon from putting up a Simpsons mural downtown.
** Several [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters on the Simpsons characters]] share last names with streets in Portland, for instance {Sideshow Bob} (Sideshow Bob) Terwilliger and (Reverend) Lovejoy
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** Several [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons characters]] share last names with streets in Portland, for instance {Sideshow Bob} Terwilliger and (Reverend) Lovejoy

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** Several [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Simpsons characters]] share last names with streets in Portland, for instance {Sideshow Bob} Terwilliger and (Reverend) Lovejoy

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* Astoria: Located at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria was the terminus of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and was the first permanent English-speaking settlement west of the Rockies. The city has also gained notoriety in pop-culture for being the setting of ''Film/TheGoonies''.

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* Newport: another city on the Oregon Coast, notable for being the location of the Oregon Coast Aquarium (the home for a few years of the orca Keiko aka ''Film/FreeWilly''), and the western terminus of US route 20, the longest road in the country.
* Astoria: Located at the mouth of the Columbia River, Astoria was the terminus of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and was the first permanent English-speaking settlement west of the Rockies. The city has also gained notoriety in pop-culture for being the setting of ''Film/TheGoonies''.
''Film/TheGoonies'' and ''Film/KindergartenCop''.


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** Several [[''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons characters]] share last names with streets in Portland, for instance {Sideshow Bob} Terwilliger and (Reverend) Lovejoy
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* The climactic scene of ''Film/PointBreak'' was filmed on the Oregon Coast.

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* The climactic scene of ''Film/PointBreak'' ''Film/{{Point Break|1991}}'' was filmed on the Oregon Coast.
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'' is set in Ashland.

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' is set in Ashland.



* ''Film/TheDayCalledX'' depicts a ColdWar nuclear evacuation exercise involving the residents of UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}.

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* ''Film/TheDayCalledX'' depicts a ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar nuclear evacuation exercise involving the residents of UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}.

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