This was the Rose City where waves of Santa Clauses faced off with police in riot gear. Where anarchists in town for an “un-conference” broke windows and banged on parked cars as part of a planned “wandering vandalism” excursion. Portland in the 1990s was, of course, where Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love met.
The Oregonian, “Portland in the 1990s: dirty, weird, a place to disappear — and it’s deeply missed”
