Learn the story behind the Portland Anchor’s very first stories and see how one little newspaper fought for change in its neighborhood still visible 50 years later.
Category: I Remember Yesteryear
I REMEMBER: Fire Education in Portland (November, 1985)
In November of 1985, in order to try to put an end to arson attacks in the area, Portland was given $25,000 to put towards anti-arson programming. The Portland Fire Prevention Project, the Louisville Fire and Police Departments, the Arson Investigation Office, and the Boys and Girls Clubs, Inc gathered to devise a way to effectively put this money to use. Their plan? Recruit local children to keep their neighborhoods safe!
The Portland Anchor’s Founding: Missions and Miracles
“Somehow, the dreams of many individuals and groups meshed with old fashioned determination and hard work and the infant newspaper was cranked out on a rickety, old printing press in the basement of the Salvation Army Boys’ Club.”
I REMEMBER: Portland Taverns of the Past (1970s)
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.
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!