THE . OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTL AND, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1820.
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CLUB BREAKFASTS-WHOLESOME, APPETIZING FOODS TASTEFULLY SERVEDPROMPT ATTENTIONS-TEA ROOM, NINTH-FLOOR
Portland, Oregon
City of the West
Bids Her Thousands
of Visitors Welcome
TT TT TELCOME! WELL COME! Shriners, your fam
. ilies, your friends tourists everybody here f of
V this glorious Shrine-Festival time. Whether you
are a few miles or thousands of miles' from homer WEL
COME. Portland is hoping and planning to make you
glad all your life long that you came to this City of Roses at this time. ...
Portland, Oregon, on the far-flung Pacific coast. A mission to the Indians settled in the Willamette valley in-1834. A thou
sand people from Missouri here in 1843. 'Six thousand people in 'ill Oregon in 1845. Today in .Portland alone 258,000 by
official 1920 census. ' ; , . , s - - , '
A Characteristically American City Is Portland
THE MEIER A FRANK STORE '
, (Established in Portland in 185 7)
Largest Distributor of Merchandise at Retail in the Northwest
The Home of Oregon-Made Goods and Headquarters for
Nationally-Advertised Lin.es
with all theeatity of mountain scenery and primeval forests near
at hand. - Where will - you find a city with more picturesque
environs? 'Portland on the Columbia River with the famous Colum
bia River Highway America's Great Highway Through the Cas
cade Mountains to the Sea. Portland with its five snow-capped
mountains -Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens,- Mt.- Jefferson,
Mt. Rainier and with nearby Council Crest, the old meeting place
of"Willamette Valley Indians where .' the modern street car takes
one to see the sunset.
The Meier & Frank Store Extends Its Fullest Hospitalities
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Let us help In every way we can to add to your. pleasure and comfort.
Come to this representative store of the northwest as often as opportuity
offers. Use our; many conveniences freely Do not come with the: feeling
that you wiii be expected to make purchases. For this is not merely a "store"
but is. and has been for 6? years in this one city a great public institution
where patrons and visitors alike find comfort and hospitality and a kindly
spirit of helpfulness. . - , , .
: We Have Sketched Some of the Store Features
in Which Visitors Will Be Particularly Interested
A Meier & Frank Store covering leven acres of floor space, reaching: sixteen,
stories high from the Lower Basement; a vast storehouse of fine merchandise from
America and abroad ; - with more than eiphty great departments ; two thousand em
ployes; a store of daylight and open windows, a store of PERSONAL SKKV1CK-
B Observation Tower on the fourteenth floor,- affording: "a magnificent view of
Portland and surrounding country- ; Reached by elevator No. i. i
C Have breakfast, luncheon-and afternoon tea In the Tea Room, famous In all
this part of the West as a place where delicious Home-cooked foods are to be had.
- D Modern transportation as applied to Inter-floor travel In a busy store requires
the escalator which runs from the lower basement to the Fifth Floor. " i
' E The "Ask Mr. Foster Travel Information Service on the Sixth Floor, which
plans tours, buys tickets, sends telegrams, advises as to automobile roads and gives
every other possible travel service without charge or obligation. -
F The -Furniture Gift Shop, a maze of color and beauty, where unusual gifts are
planned for particular people all the year long.- New importations just received of ,
Japanese enameled ginger jars, vases and bowls, Chinese monotone vases, , crackle
vases, reproductions of Hawthorne vases, Chinese bird cages. Incense burners. . .
0 The Millinery Salons, in which are shown the latest models of sports h&ts and
organdie and georgette crepe garden party hats. - i
H A section of the Beauty Parlors where Marcel waving is done by experts In
the true French way. .- .. iS. 1
1 Another corner of the Beauty Parlors showing some of the expert manicurists
.s,t workthese manicurists take time to do their work well i i
Portland surrounded by rich farm and pasture lands, famous for cherries.
loganberries, strawberries, apples and scattered thick with streams m which
abound famous Chinook salmon, trout and other lure for fisWermen. - Portland,
largest lumber manufacturing city in the world, a great fresh-water por,t rank
inR as second largest wheat-shipping port -in the United States in normal times,
second largest wool market In the United States,' largest flour manufacturing
.city on the Pacific Coast, largest furniture manufacturing city, west of. the
Mississippi river, fourth .largest implement city' in the United States, largest
livestock and packing center Sit the Pacific Coast, 'and with a great industry
in paperpulp and paper. Portland. strategically situated for commerce with
the Orient. Portland a city of contentment, where good health, and prosperity
make the way-of life easy. -
J A pleasant fountain and luncheon place on the Mezzanine where Informal
parties will find many good things and cooling drinks, and from which, they can look
. down on the ever-shifting panorama of the great Main Floor. '
K The Luggage Shop, which specializes the famous Hartmann wardrobe trunks
and the best of bags and suitcases as, well, as the famous ''Oregon City" and Pendle
ton robes.;,'-'1 ' '.'. ' " ;..",' , - .
Xr The Rest Room on the Fifth "Floor, where friends meet friends for a few minf
utes quiet chat or rest. . - ...-- -;
- M The Men's- Grill on the .Ninth Floor adjoining the Tea RoomV where men enjoy
a congenial atmosphere and good food., v ;..
K The Auditorium, in. which the lectures, concerts, Fashion Shows and Other
'exhibitions of the store are presented.
O The Checking Section on the Balcony Basement, where visitors Impedimenta
are gladly taken care of without charge. - - -
P The Book Shop, which provides the latest, most talked about books and all
the other books which one wants to read.
" Other Features of Interest Not in the Picture "
U." S. Postal Sub-Station, Accommodation .and Information Bureau on the
Basement Balcony Public Telephones,' Fifth Floor and Basement Balcony
Shoe Shining Parlors, Basement Balcony. See the Daylight Bakery and Candy
Shops (Ninth Floor), swhere good things are made before your eyes. Visit
Burlington House, Seventh Floor a suite of rooms affording us a place to
show some of our fine furniture. The store has many sucn modern features,
including Dry Cold Air Fur Storage Vaults where: the temperature is always
6 degrees below freezing (Thirteenth Floor). - r
Personal shopper furnished. on request "of any flporman. Any one of our
two thousand-odd co-workers will gladly "give visitors information and 'direc
tion or refer them io someone in, our institution who will.- Get your Kodak
Supplies on the Main Floor flags and bunting, pennants; etc., Fifth Floor
camp stools, Fifth Floor noise makers, masks, serpentine, ' balloons and
various novelties. Fifth , Floor. '; ,
Typically Western 99 Might Head This Chapter ;
Every visitor in town will wish to take home something typical from the west.
Pendleton Shrine Blankets i
Made by the Pendleton .woolen mills especially to celebrate the Shrine con-
ention at Portland, Oregon, 1920. Some are i lettered "A Kader, Portland,,
IV20,'. otners are plain.. . , Meier & Frank's : Second Floor.'
Pendleton Blankets in Indian Desiens
Automobile robes, shawls, coucff covers. Indian robes, fancv single blankets
and pillow tops from the Pendleton" mills. ' They are guaranteed to be all wool.
: : : - .. " y t . Meier & Frank's : Second Floor.
Pendleton Bath Robes for Men and. JKomen
All woo?, bath robes in authentic Indian designs and very, rich Indian! colors.
Advance Autumn shipments already here. Meier & Frank's : Third Floor.
Oregon City Indian Robes t
Made in the nearby Oregon City woolen mills. Woven entirely of Oregon
wool and designed in Indian patterns typical of this district in the earlier days.
- : Meier St Frank's : Sixth Floor.
Souvenir Spoons of Sterling Silver
A-large assortment of Shrine spoons for this special occasion. Also many
Oregon and Portland spoons which will prolong-the memory of this Portland
visit. 85c to $3.25.- - - . Meier & Frank's Main Floor.
Oregon Books
Guide books, maps, souvenirs' 6f Portland and, of the Columbia River High
way and tales and pictures of , marvelous , scenery and folk lore of Oregon. .
25c to 5. Meier & Frank's : Fifth Floor. :
Here are a few particularly characteristic articles in which strangers will be interested:
Oregon Pictures
Colored photographs of Columbia Highway views done Irr-oil and interest
ing enlargements artistically framed. . ''
Special showing in the Picture Gallery. . - , Meier & Frank's : Fifth Floor.
Chinese Mandarin Robes and Japanese Embroideries
' A Chinese interpreter will be in attendance Monday and Tuesday to explain
the significance of the age-old designs embroidered on these far-Eastern gar-,
ments. . - ' . . .
Antique Chinese jnandarin robes thoroughly cleaned so "that they can be
worn for lounging robes. ; ,
Japanese priests' robes of hand-woven brocades put together piece by piece,
thus forming most diverting compositions. . . . " .
Mandarin skirts of richly embroidered silks and "satins for piano draperies,
panels,-able runners .and many other purposes.
Small! pieces of these embroideries can often be had at a few dollars.
'Old Japanese brocades in . curiously quaint colors and patterns come in
short and longer lengths for decorative uses.
Meier & Frank's : Seventh Floor
Japanese Fans
A new importation of these quaint fans includes paper, silk and novelty
fans with plain and carved sticks . in black and almost any color. Some are
printed, others have exquisite embroidery or painted flowers. ' 85c to 2.5o
Meier & 'rank's: Main Floor.
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