All Things Portland

[OddEnormous]

Couple of goobers.......

An old friend of mine took a snap of Matt Dillon at a Zers game back when he was filming Drugstore Cowboy in PDX.

A pic like that would win the thread IMO.

I might have to track him down.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Top of Multnomah Falls:

 

[ABM]

Some folks should be recognizable here..........

 

[tlongII]

Jason Quick!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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[Colonel Ronan]

Look, I've been trying to post regular size pics on here for 2 years and can't figure it out. I only know how to attach them! FUCK!

You're doing it the easiest way for files on your harddrive. Most of these pics are from the interwebz though.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The future pedestrian bridge to SoWa

 

[andalusian]

Taken in 1949

 

[OddEnormous]

Hey fezington,

You know anything about that metro bridge what was supposed be built over the river?

I think I read about it in Portland Monthly like a year ago.

 

[andalusian]

Vanport before it was flooded. This is where PIR is now. You can see the basic shape of the track still, the big empty space in the middle is where the Pro-Pits are now.

 

[OddEnormous]

The sketches of the MC under the Jumptown proposal look ace Dig that new open area and all the visible glass from inside the arena

Hoping they don't break ground on this for a while. Want to take my son whose 5 (we live in LA) to the MC for the Winterhawks next Christmas before they rip it apart.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Hey fezington,

You know anything about that metro bridge what was supposed be built over the river?

I think I read about it in Portland Monthly like a year ago.

This?

 

[andalusian]

The great Alex Zanardi wins Portland for the 2nd time

I miss CART/Champ Cars

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The proposed Portland storage was on track to be built and then the economy tanked. It's now on the backburner until things improve. Next to Omsi, across from SoWa:

 

[andalusian]

Racing in the rain. Some of the last "big" races in PIR when CCWS was on it's last legs.

 

[THE HCP]

You're doing it the easiest way for files on your harddrive. Most of these pics are from the interwebz though.

Ya, those were pics I took.

 

[illmatic99]

Is "SoWa" the official term now? I don't like it. And I coulda used that pedestrian bridge this summer when I worked at OHSU.

 

[OddEnormous]

This?

That's the one. TY

 

[andalusian]

That statue is still there on Main St. downtown near 4th Ave.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Fez,

I like your pictures.

 

[OddEnormous]

That statue is still there on Main St. downtown near 4th Ave.

 

[julius]

Is "SoWa" the official term now? I don't like it. And I coulda used that pedestrian bridge this summer when I worked at OHSU.

Every time I read it, or hear it, it makes me think of Southern Washington/Vancouver.

 

[HailBlazers]

No it stands for SO WHAT. So what came of all these millions of dollars they poured into that area...?

 

[Colonel Ronan]

That's awesome.

 

[OddEnormous]

That's awesome.

I've wrestled it a half dozen times the fucking cvnt.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

During the 1940's the city lost some iconic cast-iron buildings for the 'roadway improvement plan for Portland.'

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Another rendering of the long term vision of SoWa

 

[andalusian]

Racing in the rain. Some of the last "big" races in PIR when CCWS was on it's last legs.

Just for the record, Portland's place in open-wheel racing in the USA is unknown to many, but it was basically the birthplace of what would later become ChampCars.

Yet, even more importantly is the fact that 2009 will be the 100th Anniversary of the very first Champ Car race… Of which Portland holds the distinction of preceding the Brickyard, as its race was part of the forbearer to what would ultimately become Champ Car. (Circa 2004-07)
“In 1909 -- in Portland -- Howard Covey drove a Cadillac to victory in the first race of what was then called the U.S. National Championship Series, a forebear of the United States Auto Club series and later Champ Car.

Covey moved to Portland from Texas, in 1902 became the exclusive dealer for Cadillac and Pierce Arrow in the state.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

During the 1940's the city lost some iconic cast-iron buildings for the 'roadway improvement plan for Portland.'

Thank god... That looks fucking scary.