Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Jantzen Beach
We are on our way to Salem. Didn't leave until 10:15--after Kit's presentation for Men's breakfast.
It was a wet dreary driving day. We stopped here--just north of Portland after 4--already near dark. Jantzen Beach is now jammed with hotels and mega stores. Once there was not much here but the original REI. Before that Jantzen Beach was synonymous with amusement park. But Kit says he remembers when it was Vanport, the second largest city in the state. It was built during WwII for shipyard workers--the largest public housing project in the US. It was flooded out in 1948 leaving a huge number of black workers without a place to live in this racially prejudiced state. So I just learned on the net
It was a wet dreary driving day. We stopped here--just north of Portland after 4--already near dark. Jantzen Beach is now jammed with hotels and mega stores. Once there was not much here but the original REI. Before that Jantzen Beach was synonymous with amusement park. But Kit says he remembers when it was Vanport, the second largest city in the state. It was built during WwII for shipyard workers--the largest public housing project in the US. It was flooded out in 1948 leaving a huge number of black workers without a place to live in this racially prejudiced state. So I just learned on the net
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