<P> Portland is sometimes affectionately called P - Town by some locals . </P> <P> Portland was once compared with Brooklyn, New York, whose official nickname was "city of churches", by the Sunday Oregonian as seen on the front page of its November 12th, 1899 issue of which a reproduction can be seen on the outside of the Oregonian's building . It reads, "On the Pacific coast, Portland occupies the same relative position as that of Brooklyn on the Atlantic seaboard and might well be called "a city of churches"... Wherever the stranger wanders here he will see steeples pointing heavenward, in the very midst of one of the most pleasing landscapes in all the world, embracing, as it does the comprehensive view of river and vale, hill and mountain, farm and fruit orchard, city and country--all combined ." </P> <P> The nickname Rip City is usually used in the context of the city's NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers . The term was coined by the team's play - by - play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on February 18, 1971, the Blazers' first season . In the days prior to the three - point field goal, Blazers guard Jim Barnett took an ill - advised long distance shot that nonetheless went in, giving the new team hope for a victory against the powerful Lakers . Excited, Schonely exclaimed "Rip City! All right!" Schonely admits that he has no idea how he came up with the expression, but it became synonymous with the team and the city of Portland . </P> <P> Stumptown was coined in a period of phenomenal growth in Portland after 1847 . The city was growing so rapidly that the stumps of trees cut down to make way for roads were left behind until manpower could be spared to remove them . In some areas the stumps remained for so long that locals whitewashed them to make them more visible . They also used them to cross the street without sinking into the mud . Captain John C. Ainsworth commented that there were "more stumps than trees" in Portland in the early 1850s . </P>

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