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September 12th, 2007 Ethan Smith | News

Streets Of Dreams

Cesar Chavez Boulevard? How about a sop to some other interest groups in Portland?

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Last December, the City Council renamed Northeast Portland Boulevard as Rosa Parks Way, after the African-American civil rights icon.

And now the council is considering changing North Interstate Avenue to Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard to honor the Chicano labor leader.

The idea: to recognize Portland’s minorities. But what about the city’s many other still-unrecognized minorities who haven’t gotten the high honor of having a street renamed? Don’t they deserve rectangles of appreciation? Perhaps we can’t honor every community with a street of its own, but here’s a start. (Note that, for a change, these are streets on the west side.)

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09.12.2007 at 12:52 Reply

duh.

hm...

first off...

Portland Blvd. was NOT only NE..it was Portland Blvd. in total that got the overhaul.

Second, Interstate Ave. IS west side...

please do your due diligence before making statements seen/heard by many....

where does the Willamette find these erroneous hacks?!?!

09.12.2007 at 08:58 Reply

Ryan

Uh...Last I checked N Interstate was East of the river.

09.13.2007 at 07:27 Reply

Arthur Delaney

Ah, yes. Interstate Ave is east of a river. But which river? In fact Interstate Ave is west of a great many rivers, most of the rivers in the United States in fact. It seems silly to say it's on the Eastside just because it happens to be East of ONE river few people know of and even fewer can pronounce. It would be more authoritative to say that Interstate Ave is in some way relative to many rivers and therefore can be classified as on the Relativeside along with Albert Einstein Blvd and Your Mother-in-Law Way.

09.15.2007 at 10:44 Reply

DJD

Why don't we name a street after a Hmong leader? The Hmong people spilled more blood and sacrificed so much more for the United States and democracy in general than Ceasar Chavez ever did. Lets have a street named Vang Pao Blvd.

09.18.2007 at 10:08 Reply

Joe

Given that it is Portland I think it only fair that we also consider the following: replace the Baldock Freeway with the Mao Tse Dung expressway; Banfield with Pol Pot; 82nd Avenue with Lennin Way....

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