Milwaukie

[ mil-waw-kee ]

noun

1. a town in NW Oregon.

Example Sentences

The compact corner drugstore, on Southeast Milwaukie Avenue just south of Powell Boulevard, still has glass display cases and shelves filled with old medicine bottles.

From Seattle Times

I encountered this place by accident when I ran into owners Roger and Shani Hodge at an Easter service just outside Burns, Ore. Their story of feeling called to move across the state from Milwaukie in 2022 so they could turn the historical lumber mill into an inn sounded intriguing, so I dropped by for a tour.

From Seattle Times

He said he and his 37-year-old wife, Duanpen, are taking half the money, and the rest is going to a friend, Laiza Chao, 55, of the Portland suburb of Milwaukie.

From Seattle Times

With his white beard, wire-rim eyeglasses, newsie cap and bolo tie, Mr. Moore, who died last week at age 94, was an unlikely style icon whose folksiness seemed to personify the wholesome artisanal grains produced by his company at an old mill in Milwaukie, Ore.

From New York Times

Bob Moore, the grandfatherly entrepreneur who, with his wife, Charlee, leveraged an image of organic heartiness and wholesome Americana to turn the artisanal grain company Bob’s Red Mill into a $100 million dollar-a-year business, died on Saturday at his home in Milwaukie, Ore. He was 94.

From New York Times