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...and every one of those buisnesses was black-owned?
This area was first populated by German immigrants before it became black, wasn't it?
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Wow. Dense. I bet Wilbur's Flamingo Tavern and The Bloop Bleep Tavern were fun hangs. They don't name 'em like they used to.

To be fair, unless I've been completely oblivious there aren't that many coffee shops on Williams. Maybe 2?
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Five churches, two funeral chapels.

Also, St Vincent dePaul's SALVAGE BAR! Ha.
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Just as well. If the Bloop Bleep Tavern was still there, hipsters would have started hanging out there and completely ruined it by now.
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Very nice. Not sure 55 years is the right scale for discussing gentrification, maybe update it by year. I5, Emanuel Hospital and the Colosseum were not there then. Feature story?
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What is "Irisher and Swede wholesale"? Does it just stock Irish whiskey and Swedish fish?
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Wuh wuh waaaahh. What about the blacks, what about the germans, what about the native americans, and what about the neanderthals?
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There were probably similare ill feelings among the whites who were there before it became a predominantly black neighborhood. But is racism by blacks more acceptable than racism by whites? I thought the goal was not to be bothered by the people of another race moving into the house or business next door.
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@smiley Yes because racism against whites is a total problem in our society. It's just terrible.
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@frankieb Because Oregon wouldn't let black people in at first remember? The whole state was basically white only unless you are willing to build a railroad for us and are Chinese thank you.
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@ Baron von Turdwell - THANK YOU! Really a shame local news can't do reporting like that anymore.
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I eagerly await the next map showing the businesses that were downtown in 1956, and how few of them remain.

Of course, that would be "change", "modernization", "progress", "improvement" etc. It's only a bad thing if black people lived there.
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@stu The whiteys on here are the prize winners in Missing The Fucking Point. I didn't know there were so many members of the city council that read the Mercury!

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