Photos: A visual history of July in Oregon 📸 Gresham’s July 4, 1919 Parade. Swipe to learn more about each photo ➡️ #oregonhistory #oregon #history #archived The U.S.S. Philadelphia, first of the five light cruisers which Saturday moved up the Columbia River and into the Willamette for Portland’s annual fleet week, is shown passing St. John bridge, July 23, 1939. Children play with sparklers on the Fourth of July, 1949. The skirmishing in gasoline prices has spread down SE Tacoma street to Sellwood bridge. Here a station advertises gasoline at 23.5 cents a gallon in 1951. Patrons line up outside the box office of Broadway Theatre on Southwest Broadway and Salmon Streets, 1952. Portlanders square dance in front of Nordstrom’s in July 1962, two years after Lloyd Center opened to much fanfare. Prizes and free ice cream were dished out to participants in the annual Fourth of July parade in the Royal Woodlands area of Raleigh Hills, 1973. Fireworks explode over Willamette River a...