King Kong visits the Portland Building for an Oregon Lottery event, 1985.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, King Kong visits the Portland Building for an Oregon Lottery event, A2007-02, 1985.
Portland Building, 1985
Vintage Portland
King Kong visits the Portland Building for an Oregon Lottery event, 1985.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, King Kong visits the Portland Building for an Oregon Lottery event, A2007-02, 1985.
Vintage Portland 
This was before Portlandia came around and poked him with her trident.
Yeah. At least you were legally allowed to photograph King Kong. Lol
I guess I should say photograph and post publicly without a lawsuit.
Sorry to ruin the fun with historical accuracy, but Kong was gone for about six months before Portlandia was installed on the opposite face of the building. The big ape only hung around for a few days. Pretty expensive to keep him up there.
No one’s comments are disputing that.
I remember going downtown to see this, it was awesome!
It looks like Kong’s holding a giant Scratch-It. Is this the early days of the Oregon Lottery?
One of Portland’s great publicity stunts of all time, thanks to Ron Schmidt!
Click to access Oregonian-Nov.-9-1992-Ron-Schmidt-Obituary-new.pdf
Robert…drink more coffee before you post.
Lots of chipper folks in the comments today!
As I remember, this was the kick off to either the lottery itself or the start of scratch off sales. But my memory is not as good as it used to be.
I don’t remember seeing Kong but it doesn’t surprise me that he was there.
the stupidest post modern building on the planet