What are your memories of these places? We thought it would be fun to share some ads from the Portland Anchor in the 1970s, showing the vast amount of drinking establishments in the Portland neighborhood.
Category: I Remember Yesteryear
I REMEMBER: Anchoring the News with the Courier Journal (August, 2007)
Portland Anchor volunteers, from left: Charles Frick, Alma Wright, Gordon Brown, and Tim Crabtree. “Somehow, everyone started calling me the editor,” Alma Wright recalled. “One day I asked Gordon, ‘Am I the editor?’ and he said, ‘You’re the editor.'”
I REMEMBER: KentuckyShow! (October, 1984)
Forty years ago in October 1984 the Portland Anchor was much like it is today, with announcements of Halloween activities and even excitement around a new arts attraction: KentuckyShow! This month’s article from yesteryear announces the multimedia show’s opening festivities at and around the Kentucky Theater, a cinema set at that time to permanently house the project.
I REMEMBER: The Honey Bee-Bumble Bee (August, 1984)
Forty years ago in August 1984 the Portland Anchor was filled front-to-back with “thank you”s from members of the Portland community regarding that year’s Portland Festival and Homecoming, but slotted in-between was this wonderful little treatise on the importance of bees!