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2. Portland Rose Festival - Wikipedia

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   In 1906, the first Rose Festival and Flower Parade was held in Portland. Pittock and neighbors contributed roses from their gardens to decorate floats, wagons, people and horses for the parade. [4] In 1907, the Portland Rose Festival Association was incorporated [5] and Portland hosted its first official Portland Rose Festival. [3]

3. Fleet Week - Wikipedia

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   1936 was the first Fleet Week for Portland, although navy ships had visited Portland previously starting in 1892 as part of civic celebrations. [21] Ships included: USS Houston (CA-30) USS Milwaukee (CL-5) USS Chester (CL-27) USS Chicago (CL-29) USS Aylwyn (DD-355) USS Bainbridge (DD-246) USS Chandler (DD-206) USS Detroit (CL-8) USS Farragut ...

4. Oregon International Air Show - Wikipedia

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   Former Navy pilot, Jim Osborne, was the chairman of the Rose Festival Navy Committee and envisioned a full-scale airshow as part of the Portland Rose Festival.After the Rose Festival Association gave him the green light, he rounded up the top aerobatic acts in the country and enlisted the help of the U.S. Navy Recruiting to request the Blue Angels to headline the first show in 1988. [4]

5. Roses in Portland, Oregon - Wikipedia

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   The garden was established in Washington Park as the International Rose Test Garden in 1917. Today, the Portland Rose Festival takes place each June with a carnival, parades, and navy ships docked along the Tom McCall Waterfront Park to promote the city. The International Rose Test Garden is currently one of the oldest public rose test gardens ...

6. USS Bagley (FF-1069) - Wikipedia

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   These she carried out in a long series of short underway periods in nearby waters. Late in May, the frigate participated in Exercise EASTPAC 85-5 conducted in late May and early June. At the conclusion of the evolution, Bagley called at Portland, Oregon, for that city's Rose Festival and then moved on to Concord, California, to load ammunition ...

7. Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon) - Wikipedia

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   The Memorial Coliseum was designed with large doors at both ends to accommodate the floats of the Portland Rose Festival's Grand Floral Parade. [13] The 4.2-mile-long (6.8 km) parade begins at the Memorial Coliseum, where paying guests watch the parade cross the Coliseum's floor from reserved seats inside and from bleachers outside.

8. Eagle to lead Portsmouth Tall Ships festival July 26 to July ...

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   This year’s Parade of Sail will take place on the morning of Friday, July 26 between 9 and 11:30 a.m., kicking off the festival. Recreational and commercial boaters invited to join Parade of Sail

9. Georgiana Burton Pittock - Wikipedia

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   Georgiana Martin Pittock (née Burton; November 14, 1843 – June 12, 1918) [1] [2] was an Oregon pioneer and community leader based in Portland, Oregon. She founded the Portland Rose Society in 1888. The society's annual rose show grew into a rose parade and pageant by 1906, and was the foundation for the Portland Rose Festival. Pittock was ...