Portland's East Side Neighborhoods Are Still Great -- Here's Why

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Like nearly every city, the greatest streets and neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon exist where the long-abandoned electric streetcars ran. Today we're touring Portland's east side to find remnants of that age and talk about why its lingering impact is so important. ---------- CityNerd is on Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service, ad-free! Using my custom link gets you 40% off an annual subscription, and really helps the channel! https://go.nebula.tv/citynerd Also STILL available: the Lifetime offer! $300 for Nebula as long as both you and Nebula exist, and a full 1/3 of the price goes directly to support this channel. https://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=citynerd ---------- Special thanks to Cameron Booth at transitmap.net for use of his 1915 Portland electric streetcar line map! I strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with his site if you haven't -- Cam does amazing work. You can buy this particular piece as a print at https://transitmap.net/store/product/streetcars-portland-1915/ ---------- Patreon - a way to directly support continuing CityNerd output! Thanks to all who have signed up so far. https://www.patreon.com/CityNerd ---------- Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced: - My Video On Downtown Portland: https://youtu.be/tMmPWAC_eWQ ---------- Resources: - Learn more about Coach Sam Balto's bike bus: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/11/bike-bus-school-sam-balto/ - Portland Neighborhood Greenways network map https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2023/greenways_network_map_2023_final_web_230309.pdf ---------- Images - "Helmet cam captures Portland uproar after Taylor ruling" via Reuters USN: VACX1UEYV ID: tag:reuters.com,2020:newsml_VACX1UEYV:3 https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2020%3Anewsml_VACX1UEYV&share=true - Oaks Rink By Another Believer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68391695 - Car #700, Sellwood - Portland General Electric Company, Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC- SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ---------- Instagram: @nerd4cities BlueSky: @nerd4cities Threads: @nerd4cities Twitter: @nerd4cities ---------- Music: CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library) ---------- Business Inquiries: [email protected]