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Pauline Bradford:
continued
from Front
m eans the last. A s in other cities,
real estate agents m ade m oney by
playing the races o ff against each
other.
“T here w as a m ass exodus by
w hites,” B radford recalls. “They
w ere told th e ir property values
w ould go dow n - and then the
houses w ere sold to blacks at in
flated prices. Som e older w hites
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stayed until they died, but then
they w ere alw a y s re p la c e d by
people o f color.”
She said som e hom es fell into the
hands o f speculators w ho "never
d id repairs. T hey knew people
w ould rent them no m atter what
because they co u ld n ' t go anyw here
else.”
T h e B ra d fo rd s’ ex p e rie n c e d
more discrim ination w hen they tried
to get a m ortgage from First Inter
onth
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Albina PlORCCr
state Bank. T hey could buy a house
in the suburbs, they w ere told, but
the bank w o u ld not lend them
money on their A lbina hom e, d e
spite having a good credit rating
and a savings account in the bank.
T o add insult to injury, after they
refinanced their hom e through Ben
jam in Franklin Savings and Loan
and took a c ash ier’s check to First
Interstate to cash, they w ere asked,
“ Is this check any good?”
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She later got a jo b w ith the D e
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D airy, now know n as the Standard discovered th ey ’d been bypassing
Dairy complex housing Billy Reed’s civil service candidates and using
R estaurant. A t that tim e it w as a tem porary w orkers for perm anent
w orking plant where em ployees jobs. She w orked part-tim e, w hile
reported at 4 a.m ., and not quietly. raising her three children, in the old
“ Y ou adapted to the noise and federal courthouse on southw est
w hatnot,” B radford says. “It was Broadway.
part o f the neighborhood.”
In 1964, taking advantage o f
U nion A v en u e (now M artin new ly-available program s, she be
Luther King Jr. Boulevard) w as a gan going to c lass part-tim e at Port
vibrant, busy place with banks, land State U niversity, eventually
departm ent stores, insurance o f graduating in 1970. She relinquished
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served by an electric streetcar. The w ent w ith it to start a second career,
Egyptian T heater was in operation, teaching at P eninsula School until
as was the Palm er Bakery in w hat is she retired in 1989.
now the Bardy Trophy building at
All that w as m erely her profes
N ortheast Brazee Street.
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m em ber, a m em ber and chair o f the
land use com m ittee, delegate to the
N ortheast C oalition o f N eighbor
hoods w here she served a term as
chair.
T hese days, she says, the neigh
borhood “has im proved, but there
are also a lot o f problem s.” O ne she
sees is new people m oving in w ho
have no sense o f history or under
standing o f the people w ho lived
here before.
She is upset, for instance, when
new com ers speak disparagingly o f
what has been done to older houses.
They may sneer at the artificial sid
ing that covers som e structures, but
“w ithout it the houses probably
w ouldn’t have survived this long.
People lowered their ceilings to cut
their heating bills, and redid w ood
work and put in linoleum because it
- Pauline Bradford, longtime Portland resident and community leader.
nity housing, at M emorial Coliseum,
the 1-5 Freew ay, and the aborted
Emmanuel Hospital expansion. The
loss o f housing and local custom er
base caused local businesses to
w ither and die.
In 1979, the Bradfords’ m oved to
N ortheast First A venue, im m edi
ately south o fh e r au n t’s o ld house.
It w as the only suitable one-story
house she could find that w as avail
able, she says, and because o f its
location it was “like com ing hom e.”
At that tim e, nearby N ortheast
Broadw ay contained m ostly small
local businesses. M uch o f the ch ar
ac te r o f the n eig h b o rh o o d w as
g rad u a lly p u sh ed asid e by ca r
dealerships.
M eanw hile, with John w orking
at the Post O ffice, Pauline at first
did “a little o f everything” - includ
ing w ork as a w aitress, as a m aid at
Em m anuel H ospital, and later as a
clerical w o rk erfo rth e Internal R ev
enue Service.
w ent there, so naturally I w as in
volved in the PTA , fundraising, the
w hole bit.” ). She w as also active in
the N A A C P, Urban L eag u eo f Port
land, and the H arriet T ubm an Club
o f the O regon A ssociation o f C o l
ored W o m en ’s C lubs, the oldest
A frican-A m erican w o m en ’s o rga
nization in the U.S.
She ro se to p resid en t o f the
clu b ’s N orthw est Region, and was
responsible for bringing the group’s
national conference to Portland.
She is a m em ber o f the A lpha D elta
K appa sorority, and a past officer
o f D elta Sigm a Theta.
A lso, since the m id -19 8 0 s— she
c a n ’t re m e m b e r ju s t w h en —
B radford has been active in the
Eliot N eighborhood A ssociation.
As with m any others, an issue
drew her in: a proposal to put a
school fo r d elin q u en t youth on
W illiam s, w hich she considered a
very bad idea. U nlike m any others,
she stayed on, serving as a board
Jh
was easier to keep clean. It’s a matter
o f style. There should be more ac
ceptance o f different cultures.
“B ecause m oney w asn ’t avail
able for im provem ents because o f
(financial) red lining, people here
did things for them selves. N ow ,
because o f o u r w ork to elim inate
red lining, new com ers are able to
take advantage o f that.”
A s for com plaints about noise
g e n e rate d by som e b u sin esses,
“T h a t’s the price you pay for an
urban setting. Increased density,
bringing people closer together, will
bring its ow n p ro b lem s. S om e
people w ho have m oved here re
cently d o n ’t have a sense o f the
history o f this place. It’s okay that
they d o n ’ t, but they should be aw are
o f w hat cam e before before m aking
ju d g m en ts.”
Fortunately, the neighborhood
has Pauline B radford to advise it on
such things and hopefully will have
for m any years to com e.
Celebrating 223 Years of Life
A b irth d a y d in n e r p arty w as
h eld on S atu rd ay at the C h in a
M oon B u ffet on S o u th w e st M a c
ad a m B o u le v a rd in h o n o r o f
A lth e a R o setta R a n d -H a rd e n o f
P o rtlan d , J e a n e tta H a rd e n -L a u
d erd ale o f W illiam sburg, V a., and
H erm an H. H ard en Sr. o f P o rt
land.
F am ily m em b ers, clo se frien d s
an d o u t-o f-to w n g u ests ca m e o u t
to ce le b ra te th e trio : a m o th e r at
84, d a u g h te r at 63 an d son at 56.
M rs. L a u d e r d a le ’s d a u g h te r ,
F e lic ia L a u d e rd a le -J o n e s a n d
so n -in -la w R o b e rt V. Jo n e s o f
W illia m sb u rg , V irg in ia , h o ste d
th e e v e n t an d a g o o d tim e w as
h ad by all.
Herman H. Harden Sr. and his
sister Jeanetta Harden-
Lauderdale (from left) and their
mother Althea Rosetta Rand-
Harden (right) all celebrated
their birthdays together during
a family reunion last week.
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School Cuts Draw Massive Protest
(A P) — A m assive crow d o f
parents, students and teachers from
around O regon traveled to the state
Capitol in Salem on M onday to
protest state funding cuts for local
schools.
The education boosters decried
Gov. Ted K ulongoski’s $5 billion
funding proposal as inadequate to
prevent larger class sizes and a
shorter school year in som e places.
O rganizers said the rally drew
more than 2.000 people to the front
steps o f the C apitol, although Rusty
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W olfe, a state police trooper as
sig n e d to th e C a p ito l, said he
thought the num ber w as clo ser to
1,000.
V arious speakers said it will take
a sustained lobbying effort to per
su a d e le g isla to rs to b o o st the
am ount o f state aid to schools.
O ther speakers called on the O r
egon Lottery Commi ssion to i ncrease
m oney available for school support
by slashing the rates bars and tav
erns arc paid to offer video games.
D em ocrat K ulongoski, in issu
ing his $5 b illio n proposal for
schools, said the state m ust live
w ithin existing tax revenue.
Republican House Speaker Karen
Minnis said M onday that Oregon
voters’ rejection o f tw o tax increase
proposals in the past two years has
made it clear that people want gov
ernm ent to live within its means.
“ If w e g iv e m ore m oney to
schools, it m eans you have to take
it from som ew here else in the bud
get. W h ere'sitg o in g to co m efro m ?"
the W ood Vi 1 lage Republ icans said.