37 years ago: Mayor Bud Clark fired police chief at Fat City Cafe
Editors note: This story was first published in the Southwest Community Connection on April 1, 2019.
(PORTLAND TRIBUNE) -- April 7, 1987 is definitely not a date that will live in infamy.
But it’s memorable if you’re one of the thousands of diners who over the years has slid into the teal-colored booth across from the counter at Fat City Cafe on Southwest Capitol Highway in Multnomah Village.
There, above the salt and pepper shakers, hangs a framed copy of a newspaper front page from the day after April 7, 1987.
April 7 was the day Mayor Bud Clark met Portland Police Chief Jim Davis for an early breakfast at Fat City and ended up firing him.
Jim Davis was the second police chief Mayor Clark had fired in the first 16 months of his term.
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