160512 TBT Week 32 - Parade featuring Sister City Representative from Nago, Okinawa, Japan (August 1964)

MMMD/16/1374

City of Milwaukie - Communications and Distributions - Publications - Publications- all others

#‎DYK‬ that ‪#‎Milwaukie‬ has had 2 Sister Cities? This week's ‪#‎ThrowBackThursday‬ features a mid-century convertible carrying a representative of Nago, Japan. We're not sure if this was a Festival Daze parade or a special welcome for our ‪#‎SisterCity‬, but it's a classic ‪#‎MainStreet‬ scene circa 1964. ‪#‎MilwaukieTBT‬ ‪#‎HistoricMilwaukie‬ ‪#‎InternationalRelations‬ Photo Credit: City Archives Collection. Visit our community partners at the ‪#‎MilwaukieHistoricalSociety‬ on Facebook here: http://ow.ly/UioOe ‪#‎OregonHeritage‬ Milwaukie has had 2 formal Sister City affiliations; both cities were in Japan, beginning with Nago, Okinawa in the 1960s. It’s unclear why the affiliation with Nago ended, but the last documentation of that relationship is dated from 1969. Later, from 1993-2006, the City maintained an affiliation with Iwaki, Aomori-Ken. The City’s relationship with Iwaki is pretty well documented with formal Sister City Agreements signed in June 1993 and photos and notes from official visits throughout the 1990s. The relationship with Iwaki came to an end in 2006 when the Town of Iwaki was merged with another city and ceased to exist.