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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lawtoad, post: 2550847, member: 31685&quot;]The Penny Diner has great food.&nbsp; As background for the inspiration for the name of the diner, Portland got it&#039;s name on the toss of a coin.&nbsp; Asa Lovejoy of Boston, Massachusetts, and William Pettygrove of Portland, Maine had established a land claim of the area that is now Portland. The growing township needed a name. One day in 1845, in the parlor of Francis Ermatinger’s home on Sixth Street in Oregon City, Lovejoy and Pettygrove agreed to flip a coin to determine the name. Pettygrove retrieved a &quot;penny&quot; from his pocket, and they agreed to a two-out-of-three-toss contest. Boston if Lovejoy won, Portland if Pettygrove won. With three tosses of a &quot;penny&quot;, Portland got its name.&nbsp; The one cent coin was kept by Pettygrove and eventually wound up in being donated to the Oregon Historical Society and is now in it&#039;s museum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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