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Its On A Slab

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I lived there from 1964 to early 1968 -- and loved it. Portland was different back then but not as different as today. Lived in the suburb of Beaverton...rode my 10 speed all over the area, even down the sides of the freeway.
The food trucks there are legendary. My brother and his wife rarely eat in theiir apt. Too many great food truck options.
 

Its On A Slab

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Awesome. All this time I was thinking they are protesting at the ICE facility while in reality they are just making tacos for everyone. Those little Antifa radicals or so thoughtful. You gotta love 'em.
Just about all the local food trucks here are Mexican.

Portland is a different animal:


 
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Bazza

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The Portland Trail Blazers sold out 814 consecutive home games from 1977 through 1995, the longest such streak in American major professional sports at the time.

Didn't hurt they drafted Bill Walton in the '74 NBA Draft, hire Jack Ramsey, and then go on to win their only NBA Championship in '77.

 

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I haven't been to Portland, but it looks like a beautiful area of the country. My wife has visited there a few times, including couple of years ago. Her favorite teacher back in Vietnam emigrated there with his daughter and grandchildren. Her professor passed away a few months after Lan last visited him. The family is struggling financially, so Lan paid for her teacher’s funeral and the headstone.

Regarding the city and its inhabitants, she noticed how run down the city appeared and how an overweighted percentage of people she encountered were underemployed artists. The depressing mood of the city did not match the beauty of the geography. And, for some reason, there is resentment towards Asians. The teacher's daughter owns a nail salon to provide for the family, and it is routinely vandalized - mostly with graffiti, sometimes with a rock through the window. Portland has a lot of property crime, and apparently racism. The daughter would like to move somewhere else, but the area is so depressed she can't find a buyer for her business. So, she's trapped at the moment. We’ve offered to help her and her family relocate when she is able.
 
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