If you've ever been to Portland or just seen the opening credits to Portlandia, you're probably familiar with the big neon "Portland Oregon" sign downtown with the deer leaping over an outline of the state. Well, from the time the sign was put up in the late '50s until the the late '90s, that sign was an advertisement for the local sportswear company White Stag, which lost ownership of the sign around the time it started to fall apart.

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