# @theoregonian on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-07T20:17:15.000+00:00
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## Caption

Photos: A visual history of July in Oregon 📸

Gresham’s July 4, 1919 Parade.

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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 at Oaks Park in Portland for the Fourth of July in 1975.

Willie, a 2,000-pound Brahma bull, flipped atop rider Bill Nelson of San Francisco during St. Paul Rodeo action. Miraculously, Nelson walked away uninjured, 1975.

Curious lion cubs peer at the outside world for the first time at Portland Zoo. Born July 4, they were named Stars, Stripes and Forever, 1976.

A trio of cowboys carrying flags on the Fourth of July with rodeo queen Jamie Anne Dullenty behind them take part in the Grand Entry of Saturday’s performance of the St. Paul Rodeo, 1987.

A city transportation worker installs the first sign bearing the name Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. near Ainsworth Street, July 8, 1989.

Portland skyline in July 1991. The vibrant sunset may be the result of fallout from the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines.

Portlanders rallies before Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech Friday in Pioneer Courthouse Square, 1994.

Britney Spears performs at the Washington County Fair in Hillsboro on July 27, 1999.

Rose Festival Air Show at the Hillsboro Airport, 2000.

A keeper of Marine Life arranges sea anemone in the kelp pool of the new Steller Cove exhibit which opened July 14 a

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