Posts Tagged ‘portland’

This photo was requested of me yesterday. It’s a pleasure to find it and remember it. It was taken in May of 2001 underneath the Fremont Bridge on Fuji Velvia 50. It’s a 30-second exposure, which I can tell you because 30 seconds is the longest non-bulb exposure my Canon EOS A2 would take. Flash at beginning of exposure, Ben was a real brick, stood really still. I ran in after about 10 seconds and also stood still.

I cannot recall it being as frigid and treacherous in Portland for so many days in a row–ever, actually. For over a week it’s been a snow-sleet-ice-hailing killstorm. Yesterday things took a turn for the worse and now we have seven or so inches of snow under half an inch of ice under what looks [...]

Did you know that when Pettygrove et. al first planted their roots in “The Clearing” on the west bank of the Willamette River (later known as Portland, Ore.) that Portland wasn’t even technically in the United States? If politics in the following few years had veered differently, we could be living under the British flag. [...]

It’s a vague memory. Picking through underbrush and worrying myself over broken bottles and heaps of concrete at night, in my late-teen early-photography-phase quests to get night shots of the skyline. The east side of the Willamette River before the Eastbank Esplanade. A messy and nearly-inaccessible river bank full of tangled, malevolent vines and homeless [...]

94.7 KNRK has a little bit they play sometimes about how they’ve been around for over 25 years. 25 years of alternative music. Except that’s not…possible, unless I have a really messed up recollection of things. As I remember it, we had 970 AM The Beat until the early- or mid-90′s. This is how I [...]

Quick quiz: How many of you know where Lovejoy Fountain is? To Google is to cheat.

Interesting Wall Street Journal report on the destruction of many, many Mazdas. Here in town. My favorite part is the airbag deployment!

If I could draw or paint or “do art” in some fashion it would probably mostly consist of a weird and concerning homage shrine to Portland’s Fremont Bridge, which, for some reason, I find to be pretty much the best thing I’ve ever seen. The obsession started sometime in my late teens. The college years, [...]

Here are what I believe to be the answers to my rather popular post reminiscing about Portland of years past. Keep in mind that these are what I believe to be correct answers, but I could be inaccurate. Which of the places listed below are currently still in their original location as of, oh, the [...]

Everyone gets to participate! The older the memory, the more cred you get for being Portland-indigenous. Remember when Lloyd Center was open to the sky? It got rainy in there. I have a photo of me with the Easter Bunny there when I was about three or four. Remember when they imploded that building downtown [...]