{"id":186,"date":"2009-05-12T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2023-06-25T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T05:53:00","slug":"1983-queen-bruce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/queens-of-lore\/1983-queen-bruce\/","title":{"rendered":"1983 SLUG Queen Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"

La primera reina SLUG<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Era el a\u00f1o 1983. M\u00e1s de 25.000 personas se hab\u00edan reunido en el centro para una celebraci\u00f3n p\u00fablica del nuevo Hult Center en 1982, y los funcionarios de la ciudad estaban tratando de lanzar un festival anual que de manera similar unir\u00eda a la comunidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlgunos de nosotros pensamos que era importante no tomarnos demasiado en serio como ciudad\u201d, cont\u00f3 recientemente la entonces concejala Cynthia Wooten. \"Quer\u00edamos llamar a este evento Eugene Slugfest\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a majority of city leaders opted for the more generic but less slimy “Eugene Celebration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By way of lighthearted protest, Wooten and others created a gastropodous entry for the first Eugene Celebration parade: a giant, Chinese dragon-style slug accompanied by the first Slug Queen bicycle designer\/engineer Bruce Gordon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think they picked me because I already had a gown,” Gordon recalled from his home in Petaluma, Calif. “I’d gone to a Halloween party in drag the previous year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his silver lame gown, blond wig and long gloves, Gordon waved to the crowd from a vintage MG convertible to the strains of “Happy Trails to You.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus began the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a master designer\/creator of that ultimate alternative transportation vehicle\u2014the bicycle\u2014Queen Bruce set the tone to \u201ckeep it GREEN\u201d for all future Slug Queens. Currently Queen Bruce lives in Petaluma, CA where he designs and handcrafts award winning touring bicycles. Check out his winning creation<\/a> for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Now that\u2019s a sweet royal ride. In the market for a one of a kind classic? Contact Bruce at Bruce Gordon Cycles<\/a> to get your custom bike built for next season.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The First SLUG Queen The year was 1983. More than 25,000 people had converged downtown for a public celebration of the new Hult Center in 1982, and city officials were trying to launch an annual festival that would similarly bring the community together. “Some of us thought it was important not to take ourselves too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions\/3224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slugqueen.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}