The city of Portland has been called “P-town” since at least the 1990s. Other cities have also been called “P-town”—such as Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Wikipedia: Nicknames of Portland, Oregon
P-Town
Portland is sometimes affectionately called P-Town by some locals.
Urban Dictionary
p-town
Portland, Oregon
We’re gonna hit up Westside P-town.
by Nat Hizzle Dec 8, 2003
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How to Talk American:
A Guide to Our Native Tongues
By Jim Crotty
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1997
Acknowledgments:
... the gang at the Habit (my hands-down favorite cybercafe in the universe, 21st and Clinton in P-town), ...
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Portland Best Places:
The most discriminating guide to Portland’s restaurants, lodgings, shopping, nightlife, arts, sights, and outings
By Kim Carlson
Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books
1998
Pg. 86:
The Pearl District locale near cobblestone streets and transient-filled loading docks is the essence of P-town—especially on a night with a little haze.
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MTV Roadtrips U.S.A.
By John Vorwald; et al .
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
2007
Pg. 661:
Welcome to Portland
PDX, P-town, the Rose City, call it what you will—Portland is a shining example of why people like the Pacific Northwest so much.
yelp
8/5/2007
P-Town…I miss you!
Tons of places that I loved when I lived in Portland, and would gladly go back to if not so much rain, and not so in love with Truckee,
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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