Party in the City Archives!
Have nothing to do this Friday from 1pm to 5pm? Always wanted to visit the city archives but found yourself lacking a reason to do so? Just curious what the hell the city archives are? The doors are being thrown open on Oct. 26 [PDF] over at the Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center…and yes, root beer floats are back by popular demand.
The Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center will be offering tours at 1:30 and 3:30 so you can “discover the wonders of Portland’s history.” People can also test their local knowledge for a chance to win one of three framed,
historic images. The Archives contain about 8,000 cubic feet of material, including “reports and studies, correspondence and memoranda from city agencies, and elected officials, maps and plans, and nearly 750,000 photographic images of City projects and personnel.”
The Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center is located at 9360 N Columbia Blvd.
I still have research I need the Archives for, but they’re next to impossible to get to and from via TriMet, so I’ve still never gotten it done.
b!X, if you can wait a couple years, the City Archives will be moving to PSU. I believe it’ll be in 2010.
I visited a couple of years ago. Pretty cool stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dieselboi/57075266/in/photostream/