Strangers to Milwaukie, that unprepossessing East Side suburb, may regard it as a mere blur of scraggly buildings glimpsed while barreling down Highway 99E—or an indistinct golf-ball graveyard somewhere beyond the backside of the Waverley Country Club. But veer off the highway and away from the links, travel down one of the windy side streets bordering the Willamette River, and you’ll see that this oft-overlooked community is also misunderstood, for here thrive neighborhoods that rel...