Tag: Portland Rosebuds
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Fun Fact #76 Did the Zamboni Break Down?
Read more: Fun Fact #76 Did the Zamboni Break Down?No, the Zamboni didn’t break down. This image from The Oregon Daily Journal on January 13, 1918, shows a crew resurfacing the ice at the NW Marshall Street Rink. It highlights an early improvement over previous methods, which relied entirely on manual labor. Before the Zamboni was invented, ice resurfacing at natural and mechanical rinks involved pulling a scraper behind…
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Fun Fact #42 Rush Me out of the Ballpark
Read more: Fun Fact #42 Rush Me out of the BallparkHow did they put out fires under the stands at Vaughn Street Ball Park? AnsWER: Sand Sand was used to put out fires at the old ballpark—sand shoveled on to a fire covers the burning materials and extinguishes the fire by cutting off the supply of oxygen. With the news that the Portland Diamond Project was exploring two sites for…
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Fun Fact #38 Was the largest ice rink in US really in Portland’s Slabtown?
Read more: Fun Fact #38 Was the largest ice rink in US really in Portland’s Slabtown?Discover the lost history of Slabtown’s Ice Hippodrome, once the world’s largest artificial rink and home to the first US team on the Stanley Cup.
