Same here. I grew up in that neighborhood and my (Catholic) grade school was just up Powell from the Jolly Roger. Back in the old days, when you couldn't eat meat on Fridays, that place would be jammed with local parishioners every Friday night. The food was awful but they gave the kids chocolate "doubloons" when you were leaving. After the JR moved, I always thought it was weird to see the sign on 12th. From my earliest memory until the JR moved in, that building was Bechtold's Timber Room and always seemed to be busy.
Down and out-for-the-count: Pictures of drug addicts passed out all over Portland show how its decriminalization program has backfired - with officials now proposing Japanese-style 'coffin homes' for the destitute New photos show the current situation in Portland that resembles an 'open air drug market' Homelessness and drug use continue to increase more than a year after Ballot Measure 110 passed Overdose deaths in the state hit an all-time high in 2021 with 1069, a 41 percent increase from 2020 Now, Leslie Wright Oregon City mayoral candidate, wants to house homeless people in vacant schools by using them as shelters in small compact areas, like 'the Japanese people' 'We're gonna take each one of those (homeless) people and give them their own little area and give them an address,' he said, referencing 'small, compact' areas like 'how the Japanese people live' Wright's comments come as nearby Portland has become an 'open air drug market' and overdoses skyrocket Oregon was the first state in the United States to decriminalize possession of personal-use amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...eless-Japanese-style-pods-overdoses-rise.html
https://www.koin.com/news/dangerous-man-escapes-from-psychiatric-ward-in-bend/amp/ ‘Dangerous’ man escapes from psychiatric ward in Bend Jeremy Owen Allbritton reportedly escaped from St. Charles Medical Center Psychiatric Unit in Bend on June 20. 2022. (Courtesy: Bend Police Department
Recently fully approved. Appeal from Nimbys denied. Riverplace is about to go through some ginormous changes.
They are putting a Dough Zone (Seattle dumpling spot) there too. My aunt and uncle have a condo out there.
That’s exactly where it’s heading. Dense housing is the goal - towers will be popping up all over downtown with the population booming.
Alaska has huge mosquitos in the Summer. Their winters are goddawful with how short they have light for the day. Love to visit, though.
They need to bury I-5. Why does the westside get parks along the river and the eastside gets a freeway?
Because the east side has been the City of Portland’s bastard stepchild since the first settler moved over there. West side has all the money and influence. East of 82nd is the land that Portland forgot (willfully). Money talks, blue collar sucks hind teat……
Speaking of blue-collar getting the shaft we heard all about how @BLAZINGGIANTS sat in first class and made you babysit the kids in coach on your flight to Hawaii.
