Portland at the end of World War II was an international port and a powerhouse of the timber and shipbuilding industries. Oregons largest city grew and changed in the decades that followed, adding new industries and population. It also endured reductions in shipbuilding capacity, a devastating flood, a declining timber industry, urban renewal, freeway construction, and social change. By the 1990s, a wave of globalization and big-box retail marketing swelled shipping at the citys port and swept away a surprising number of Portlands businesses, which remain in the fond memories of Portlanders....