I spent the summer of 1965 in Portland. It was a clean and vibrant city, boasting the largest shopping mall (Lloyd Center) in the world, among other "superlatives." I haven't been back since, but from what I read about it sounds like a far cry from 1965.
Incidentally, I have read that Lloyd Center is practically a ghost town and may be replaced by "stack and pack" apartments.
I was ten that summer, picking berries for a little cash and just doing kid things. The Lloyd Center was quite a place, sorry to hear it’s going under but not really surprised. I suppose as malls go, it’s been completely obsolete for a long time.
Portland really was a good place to live in the 60s and 70s, even in the 80s. I moved to Arizona in 1985, but visited fairly often after that, until pretty much all my family had died or moved elsewhere. It’s now over 20 years since I’ve been to Portland, and I doubt I’ll ever see the place again. I’d rather remember it the way it used to be.