Portland

So I... I grabbed a couple cases of watches and I hopped on a train to Portland.

—Neal to Emma^src

Portland is a Land Without Magic location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the sixth episode of the second season.

History

During First Curse

In 2001,^[1] Neal Cassidy steals a set of watches from a jewelry store in Phoenix and takes a train to Portland, where he hides the watches in a locker at the train station. Shortly afterward, Emma Swan arrives in Portland. One day, she steals a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, only to discover that it already has been stolen by Neal. The two then have an encounter with a police officer, and Neal invites her for a drink. Later that day, he shows up to a closed amusement park with coffee for Emma, and picks the lock. The two go on a merry-go-round ride while Neal opens up to her about his past. ("Tallahassee," "There's No Place Like Home")

After a short amount of time, Emma and Neal become a couple and go on a crime spree. Emma fakes a pregnancy to distract a cashier while the two rob a convenience store, and they break into motel rooms after their rightful occupants leave. They plan on relocating to Tallahassee, however, Neal becomes aware that there is a warrant out for his arrest for stealing watches. He tells Emma the stolen watches are in a locker in a train station, but he cannot get them himself, so she volunteers to grab them. She succeeds in this task, and Neal gives her one of the watches but plans on pawning the rest. They two agree to meet up later in a designated spot.

A mysterious man, August Booth, tracks down Neal and pressures him to no longer be a part of Emma's life, and he must let her be arrested for the theft of the watches. He explains to Neal that Emma has a great destiny she must fulfill; proving he has knowledge about Neal's past by opening a box containing a typewriter with the words, "I know you're Baelfire," typed on a piece of paper. Neal is shaken up that his former identity is known by someone else other than himself, and agrees to give up on Emma.

Emma arrives at their promised meeting place only to have a policeman arrest her for the watch heist as she is wearing one of the watches and they have footage from the bus station. August leaves the city while Neal flees with the money from the watches as well as the car, and Emma is sentenced to eleven months in a Phoenix jailhouse. ("Tallahassee")

Notable Business

Trivia

Production Notes

The flashback scene where Neal and Emma break into the fairground was originally scripted to be them breaking through the gate to a view of Portland at night.The production team found an abandoned amusement park, and felt that Neal showing this kind of place to Emma was something that the character would do.^[3] ("There's No Place Like Home")

Lost

Portland is referred to on Lost, another TV show that Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz has been involved with. The location is also a reference to the Lost episode "Not In Portland."
A Portland convenience store sells Apollo bars,^[4] a fictional brand on Lost. ("Tallahassee")

Set Dressing

The Portland convenience store name keychains^[5] also appear in Storybrooke's Dark Star Pharmacy in "True North,"^[6] "7:15 A.M."^[7] and "Skin Deep".^[8] ("Tallahassee")

Filming Locations

For the episode "Tallahassee," the Portland scenes were filmed in Vancouver,^[9] British Columbia, where production for Once Upon a Time was based.
- The scene where Emma is driving down the street and Neal pops up in the backseat, was filmed at 700 Block, East Hastings Street.^[10]
  - The scene where she is pulled over in her stolen car, was filmed at 100 Block, Gore Avenue^[11] in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.^[12]
- The T-Rex Urban Food & Coffee Bar doubles as the Pay-Rite Market,^[13] where Emma and Neal shoplift.
- The City Centre Motor Hotel doubles as the Red Lantern Lodge,^[12]^[14] the motel where Emma and Neal stay.
  - The City Centre Motor Hotel also doubles as a motel in the Supernatural episode "The Usual Suspects,"^[15] the Fairly Legal episode "The Two Richards,"^[14] the iZombie episode "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat,"^[16] and the Imposters episodes "The Maddie Code," "In the Game" and "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Doctor Is In".^[14]
- Thornton Park doubles as the park where Emma meets up with Neal.^[17]
- The Pacific Central Station doubles as the Portland Union Station for both exterior and interior scenes.^[12]^[18]^[9] This location has been featured in several movies and TV shows.^[18]
- The scene where Emma meets up with Neal as she returns with the stolen watches, was filmed at National Avenue & Station Street.^[19]
- The scene where Emma is arrested, was filmed in the parking garage under Granville Plaza.^[20]
The scene with Emma and Neal at the amusement park in "There's No Place Like Home," was filmed in Vancouver's Playland amusement park.^[21]

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season Two
"Broken":	"We Are Both":	"Lady of the Lake":	"The Crocodile":	"The Doctor":	"Tallahassee":	"Child of the Moon":	"Into the Deep":	"Queen of Hearts":	"The Cricket Game":	"The Outsider":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"In the Name of the Brother":	"Tiny":	"Manhattan":	"The Queen Is Dead":	"The Miller's Daughter":	"Welcome to Storybrooke":	"Selfless, Brave and True":	"Lacey":	"The Evil Queen":	"Second Star to the Right":	"And Straight On 'Til Morning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer":	"Lost Girl":	"Quite a Common Fairy":	"Nasty Habits":	"Good Form":	"Ariel":	"Dark Hollow":	"Think Lovely Thoughts":	"Save Henry":	"The New Neverland":	"Going Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"New York City Serenade":	"Witch Hunt":	"The Tower":	"Quiet Minds":	"It's Not Easy Being Green":	"The Jolly Roger":	"Bleeding Through":	"A Curious Thing":	"Kansas":	"Snow Drifts":	"There's No Place Like Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Absent	Archive	Archive	Absent	Absent
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

References

↑ File:322Portland2001.png
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↑ Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz on the Season Three Blu-ray exclusive Audio Commentary for "There's No Place Like Home"
↑ File:206AllTheWay.png
↑ File:206Pays.png
↑ File:109DontArrestUs.png
↑ File:110ReginaWalksAway.png
↑ File:112BlessYou.png
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Once Upon a Time: Emma Swan's Beetle. Vancity Filming (September 20, 2012). Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. “Once Upon a Time has been filming in Downtown Vancouver for a while now, and I was lucky enough to spot Emma Swan's Beetle parked behind Pacific Central Station.”
↑ Movies Filmed at 700 Block, East Hastings Street. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ Movies Filmed at Gore Avenue (between Alexander & Powell). MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 ^12.2 Gittins, Susan (October 25, 2012). SHOOT: Who is Mysterious Man from ONCE UPON A TIME S2 Premiere? Michael Raymond-James Returns in 2×06. Hollywood North Buzz. “In mid-September I unexpectedly found Michael Raymond-James and Jennifer Morrison laughing in the stolen yellow VW bug in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, pulled over by a prop Portland, Oregon, police car. The next day they shot scenes outisde [sic] and inside Pacific Central Station. And the next, at the City Centre Motor Hotel and in a dark alley off Main Street.”
↑ Movies Filmed at T-Rex Urban Food & Coffee Bar. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ ^14.0 ^14.1 ^14.2 Movies Filmed at City Centre Motor Hotel. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ Screenshot from Supernatural: "The Usual Suspects"
↑ Screenshot from iZombie: "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat"
↑ Movies Filmed at Thornton Park. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ ^18.0 ^18.1 Movies Filmed at Pacific Central Station. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ Movies Filmed at National Avenue & Station Street. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ Movies Filmed at Parking Garage (under Granville Plaza). MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.
↑ File:322HopOn.png
'Wave Swinger' Amusement Park Ride at Playland, Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), Vancouver, BC, British Columbia, Canada. Alamy. Retrieved on August 13, 2018.

Land Without Magic Locations

	Boston \| Hong Kong \| London \| Minnesota \| New York City \| Portland \| Storybrooke \| Seattle \| United Realms Phoenix \| Phuket \| San Francisco \| Tallahassee \| Vancouver

[1] File:322Portland2001.png

[2] File:206MapOnBed.png

[3] Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz on the Season Three Blu-ray exclusive Audio Commentary for "There's No Place Like Home"

[4] File:206AllTheWay.png

[5] File:206Pays.png

[6] File:109DontArrestUs.png

[7] File:110ReginaWalksAway.png

[8] File:112BlessYou.png

[Vancity-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Once Upon a Time: Emma Swan's Beetle. Vancity Filming (September 20, 2012). Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. “Once Upon a Time has been filming in Downtown Vancouver for a while now, and I was lucky enough to spot Emma Swan's Beetle parked behind Pacific Central Station.”

[10] Movies Filmed at 700 Block, East Hastings Street. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[11] Movies Filmed at Gore Avenue (between Alexander & Powell). MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[Yvrshoots-12] 12.0 ^12.1 ^12.2 Gittins, Susan (October 25, 2012). SHOOT: Who is Mysterious Man from ONCE UPON A TIME S2 Premiere? Michael Raymond-James Returns in 2×06. Hollywood North Buzz. “In mid-September I unexpectedly found Michael Raymond-James and Jennifer Morrison laughing in the stolen yellow VW bug in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, pulled over by a prop Portland, Oregon, police car. The next day they shot scenes outisde [sic] and inside Pacific Central Station. And the next, at the City Centre Motor Hotel and in a dark alley off Main Street.”

[13] Movies Filmed at T-Rex Urban Food & Coffee Bar. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[Moviemaps2-14] 14.0 ^14.1 ^14.2 Movies Filmed at City Centre Motor Hotel. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[15] Screenshot from Supernatural: "The Usual Suspects"

[16] Screenshot from iZombie: "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat"

[17] Movies Filmed at Thornton Park. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[Moviemaps-18] 18.0 ^18.1 Movies Filmed at Pacific Central Station. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[19] Movies Filmed at National Avenue & Station Street. MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[20] Movies Filmed at Parking Garage (under Granville Plaza). MovieMaps. Retrieved on August 25, 2018.

[21] File:322HopOn.png
'Wave Swinger' Amusement Park Ride at Playland, Pacific National Exhibition (PNE), Vancouver, BC, British Columbia, Canada. Alamy. Retrieved on August 13, 2018.

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