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My best Oregon City experience: fake church bells in downtown Oregon City loudly playing "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let it Snow!" on a sunny, warm April afternoon. I'm sure things like that never happen in West Fucking Linn.
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Dear Mercury,
Regarding this quote:
"He's Dr. John McLoughlin, and unless you're some kind of nerd, you have no idea he is a titan of Pacific Northwest history and deserves every last cent of your paltry respect."

This statement only proves that a) you are a jackass and b) you grew up in Alabama. Anyone who grew up anywhere in the Willamette Valley came out of their mother's womb knowing all about John McLoughlin and his badass life. Anyone who doesn't know about him (and thinks that people that do are nerds), is clearly a transplant that didn't have the good sense to learn something about our history before riding their unicycle into our town.

Sometimes I want to slap your face off, Portland Mercury.
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My people come from Oregon City. I spent a lot of my childhood there. It is a wonderful place.
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Go fuck yourself, WL is notorious and you are a cum dumpster bitch
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This is the worst publication in history considering its complete bias views towards the WONERLAND known as West Linn, eat your shit cock shards
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Oregon City will be the first against the wall when the revolution happens.
And cock shards.
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Those are'nt just geese, that's our Airforce!
signed
Canadians
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There are hipsters in Oregon City? NOOOOO!Why are these asexual losers spreading around the country? Is this the result of some terrible '70's experiment gone horribly wrong?
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My favorite memory of Oregon City - walking over from West Linn in the late 80's while skipping school to hang out in various buttrock bandrooms. Boy did grunge ruin that vibe in downtown OC. Fortunately it took them the better part of a decade to get the memo.
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This is the greatest piece of literature ever published in the Merc, THANK YOU!
And WLM - thanks for the confirmation!
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And you are why we hate West Linn
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I should state that again, YOU = WestLinnMarching are why we as a general population hate the existence of west linn. I would have rather lived across from Lake O!
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First I was all "John's Face = Comment of the Week," but then I was like "WestLinnMarching's flowery use of language is pretty good too," but then I remembered "Oh yeah, West Linn can eat a dick.™"
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In our defense - poetry is BETWEEN Vintage and Classics - but I do declare Def Jam a classic now. Thanks for a wondeful laugh - your article may need to be added to Oregon City's list of firsts! Karin - Friends of the Library Used Book Store
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Well done! Absolutely hilarious! I took a day trip to Oregon City a few months back and this is dead on...people should definitely make the trip so that they get the humor.
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...And the tweakers, don't forget the tweakers.
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I know where the most pompous assholes are bred: West Linn.
Oh and westlinnmarching go take your mommy's west linn money, buy yourself a lexus, and do every one a favor and wrap it around a tree, removing you from the gene pool.
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Thanks you made my day. I know that kid at Tony's Fish Market - great photo : )
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Oregon City is the city I travel through sometimes to get to other, more interesting destinations. For that, I guess, it gets a nod.
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Too bad you weren't around for the only two theaters that used to be in old OC. There was the lovely State Theater on 7th street that was packed every weekend, but nobody, and I mean nobody, was there to actually watch the movie. H-mm, too many other things to do, but still, parents happily dropped there pre-teens and teens off at the front and went obliviously on there way to the Elk's club. The other was the Oregon City Drive -In theatre, where nobody, and I mean nobody, actually parked there cars there in the old farm-like lot to actually watch the movie. It was on South End Road, and was torn down to build a church. H-mm seems appropriate.... Those sites should be on the historic tour!
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My favorite memory of the fantastic city of Oregon City, is getting arrested for DUII in a 711 parking lot at 1am, not even realizing I was in Oregon City, despite not even being pulled over. So remember, do not talk to bored cops in a 711 at Oregon City at 1am unless you want them to arrest you, tow your car, and leave your girlfriend stranded! I blew a 0.0 at the station.
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Seems this article could be most anywhere.Always the attitude behind the camera and the mindset behind the pen.Just another case of stirring up the shit.Pretentious pompous shit.My town is better than your town bullshit.Lets take on Portland the same way.
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Take a look at http://bluecollarcreative.org/Oregon-City/ to get a feel for what is really happening in Oregon City. New restaurants, retailers and creative entrepreneurs in an authentic historic urban downtown.
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Those messages sponsored by the West Linn Convention and Visitors' Bureau?
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I always wondered(having grown up in Salem)

Did they have a contest to name Oregon City?

If so...what entries LOST?

And is it true that, in Spanish, Oregon City is called "Oregon, D.F."?
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Suck it west linn
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Joey taught me how to play punk rock when I had a drum set in my garage in 7th grade. He was like 22 then. That guy will never leave the city...
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I am a close in S.E. transplant who could NOT afford to buy a house there. I fucking love my 100 year old house in the O.C. I got my chickens, my garden and raw milk is just a snap away. I love that you poke fun of my little hide away but just so you know were on our way to being cool!
We have an environmental charter school
Vertical Gardens and a CSA coming out of a coffee shop
Green Grocer--plus Gwen the owner to really "tell you what"
and Winestock--the only non elitist wine bar in the N.W
Were only a joke for another ten year bitches!
Just enough time to die trying and then give up and move back to S.E.
Loveyoumeanit
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i'm a oregon city local and proud as hell. thank you portland mercury for understanding why i love my town. and for seeing the dark underworld we call west linn for what it is.
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Come on dude, really? Look at your name, obviously you have been brainwashed or your parents bought you off with a Lexus. Name one good thing about west linn besides the fact that it is so close to Oregon City.
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Glad to see the OC showcased. It deserves it. Really. I wish there had been a best farm or best vineyard category though, since those are really some of the hardest working, most amazing folks in the OC. As for the hatred of West Linn, I guess I don't get it. West Linn and OC used to be one in the same, and WL is mostly filled with hard-working middle class folks, teachers, farmers, and others. So I don't get the thumbs-down attitude of the Mercury about WL. Our neighborhood, for instance, is all 1200 square foot ranch homes, pretty modest. And, heck, if someone has enough ingenuity to earn more monetary successes, more power to them. To each his own, I suppose. Just glad there was some much-deserved attention to OC, and can't wait to win over the Merc to the real WL.
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Oregon City needs a strip club
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Watch an Oregon City - based cable access show with Joey as the star: www.TheWebsiteForTheShow.com
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Oregon city is my city I grew up in, wouldn't change a damn thing about the place, and suck it west linn!!!
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West Linn IS and ALWAYS will be the enemy. It's just an old rivalry that outsiders don't understand.
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I've been meaning to send a big "Thank You" to the writers of The Best of Oregon City article published in July. I returned to my home state of Oregon after 11 years abroad (3 years in Cleveland and 8 in Brooklyn, NY – technically not abroad, but it sounds better than “out-of-state”). I was so excited to be back and even more thrilled to see Oregon City featured for the greatness that it is. I was so inspired by this article that I convinced four of my friends to take a Saturday out of Portland to come down the the OC and re-create the afternoon as depicted in the article. We began our trek waiting for the trolley by the Still House. The trolley never came (I guess Leo was off that day), so we began our adventure on foot. We walked along 99E toward the famous OC elevator, taking in the sights, sounds and smells of the paper mill and oncoming traffic. It was thrilling. As we approached the pedestrian stairs, which take you over 99E and down to the aptly coined "rape tunnel" we were not disappointed. Although there was no raping going on, we did stumble across a man lying on the ground, just inside the tunnel as you enter. We thought he was a sleeping bum, or local drunk who had too many 4-dogs and decided to pass out for an early summer nap. Much to our surprise, we notice blood coming out of his ears and the back of his head. I was the last to walk by the unfortunate fellow, when I noticed one of his eyes rolled up into his head. He was shirtless and not wearing any shoes, although his socks seemed to be in place. As I exited the tunnel, we met as a group and came to the conclusion that he had expired. We called 911. The paramedics and police soon arrived and cordoned off the area, holding us behind for questioning. Indeed, the man was dead. We spent several hours being questioned by the OC police, recreating our steps and explaining what we were doing.
In short, we explained that we had recently been inspired by The Mercury’s recent article highlighting the fabulous nature of OC and its surrounding environs and were out recreating an adventure. Little did we know that we would come face to face with a human corpse.
Thank you Mercury. As I mentioned, I lived in NYC for 8 years and never saw anything like the spectacle of expired flesh I saw that day. Without you, we never would have been so traumatized and riveted by the true nature of our human existence.

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