152 Things Oregon, for Oregon's 152nd

 To commemorate Oregon's 152nd birthday I compiled a list of 152 people, places, and things that are only Oregon! There may be a few stretches among them, but thinking of 152 different things is tough! This list is also a good example of my train of thought, as I wrote these all down as they popped into my head. Thank you, Oregon, for these and the many other gifts you've bestowed upon us!

152 THINGS OREGON:

1) The Hunted, starring Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones (college roommate of Al Gore) 

2) Keeping Portland Weird

3) Hopworks Urban Brewery

4) Block 15 Brewery

5) Wilcox Farms Chocolate Milk

6) Tillamook Dairy products

7) That new life in the West Hills Art Alexakis is buying

8) Leatherman Multi-tools

9) Columbia Sportswear

10) The Goonies

11) The Portland Timbers

12) The Timbers Army

13) OSU Beavers

14) Mount Hood

15) Eugene

16) The Three Sisters

17) Cape Kiwanda

18) Cape Perpetua

19) Mo’s Clam Chowder

20) Taft Beach

21) McMinnville Taco Bell

22) Corvallis

23) Voodoo Donuts

24) RB Rubber Products

25) Portland

26) Hood River Distillery

27) Caldera Brewing Co.

28) McMenamin’s shitty service

29) The Creamery/ Klamath Basin Brewing Co.

30) Milo McIvor State Park and disc golf course

31) The High Desert Museum

32) OMSI

33) North Clackamas Aquatic Park

34) 101.5FM, KFLY, Oregon’s real rock

35) Shari’s

36) Everclear (the band)

37) Crater Lake

38) Haystack Rock, Pacific City

39) Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach

40) Ninkasi Brewing Co.

41) Bandon Cheese

42) Foster Farms chicken

43) The Oregon Trail

44) The Oregon Trail video game

45) Oregon City (the end of the Oregon Trai)

46) Portland: More strip clubs per capita than anywhere on Earth

47) The Ring

48) HWY 99W

49) Prefontaine

50) Salem

51) Western Meadowlark

52) Hazelnuts

53) "Made in Oregon" Sign

54) Steve Irwin’s wife

55) Western Oregon University, for teaching the girl who played Lex in Jurassic Park

56) The High Desert

57) Oregon Brewers Fest

58) Oregon Fresh Hop Festival

59) Nike

60) Portland Trailblazers

61) Oregon Ducks

62) Linus Pauling

63) The guy who invented the computer mouse

64) Market of Choice

65) Hurst’s Berry Farm

66) The Quarterback Princess

67) Amadan

68) Deschutes Brewing Company

69) The Rose Garden

70) The Rose Quarter

71) The Memorial Coliseum

72) Viso Energy Drink

73) Western Family Foods

74) Reser Fine Foods

75) Reser Stadium

76) Autzen Stadium

77) Phil Knight

78) Kaitlin Olsen

79) The Willamette River

80) The Columbia River

81) The Columbia River Gorge

82) Bonneville Dam

83) The Deschutes River

84) Nookie Rock

85) Oregon wineries

86) Beau Bamberg

87) Matt Groening

88) 101.1FM, KUFO

89) 94.7FM, KNRK

90) 97.9FM, KNRQ

91) 88.7FM, KBVR

92) Timberline Lodge

93) The Shining

94) Mt. Hood Meadows

95) Mt. Bachelor

96) Sasquatch/ Bigfoot

97) Sasquatch Brewing Festival

98) McMinnville UFO

99) Papa’s Soul Food Kitchen

100) Mary’s Peak

101) Detroit Lake

102) Abby's Legendary Pizza

103) American Dream Pizza

104) The Civil War (football game)

105) The Rose Parade

106) Sheridan Days (formerly Phil Sheridan Days)

107) Text-a-beer service at the David Minor Theatre

108) ONLY two-sided flag in the USA

109) Full Sail Brewing Co

110) Northwest Mogfest

111) Gas station attendants

112) No sales tax

113) Fred Meyer hypermarket

114) The Oregonian

115) www.tripcheck.com

116) Enchanted Forest

117) KUFO Rock Fest

118) Spirit Mountain Casino

119) Chinook Winds Casino

120) Sea Lion Caves

121) Dixon Rec Center (largest recreation facility in Oregon)

122) Laurelwood Brewing Co (winner of the 2009 National IPA Championship)

123) Portland Winterhawks

124) Newport historical bay front

125) Izzy’s Pizza and Buffet

126) Evergreen Aviation Mueseum

127) Evergreen Space Museum

128) The Spruce Goose

129) Hatfield Marine Science Center

130) Oregon Coast Aquarium

131) Twin Towers of the Portland Convention Center

132) Shane Company Jewelers

133) Dick Fosbury

134) Delphian School (private Scientology school)

135) Taco Time

136) Regulation dungeness crab size: 5 3/4”

137) Regulation red rock crab size: any

138) Ehren McGhehey

139) Pendleton Round Up

140) Pendleton Whiskey

141) Salem Insane Asylum

142) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

143) Hoodoo Ski Resort

144) Second most breweries in the USA

145) Portland: Most breweries in the world, per capita

146) Keiko

147) OSU’s wave generator

148) Oregon Zoo Lights celebration

149) Naked bicycle riding events

150) Oregon Vortex

151) Huggiest state (as observed by my out-of-state friends)

152) Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster