Why is Portland called Rip City?
PORTLAND is the largest and most populated city in the state of Oregon.
The city is home to the NBA team Portland Trail Blazers, Portland Timbers of the and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
"I watched it all the way, and I came out with … why, I have no idea … ‘RIP CITY, ALRIGHT!’
“We go to commercial, and I sit down at my chair to relax for a minute or two, and the guys at press row said, ‘Rip City? I said, ‘Yeah’," Schonely added.
The first known reference to Portland as The City of Roses was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention.
In 1889, the Portland Rose Society was founded and promoted to planting 20 miles of Portland's streets with roses in advance of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
The nickname grew in popularity after the exposition, where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses."
Other nicknames Portland is known by includes, Stumptown, Beervana, PDX and City of Churches.