Hit it right on the head.but you forgot the hipsters,the Cali immigrants,the traffic,the stupid priced real estate,the building of Kalifornia condos on every block,and last but not least the Liberal pollution that blights all it touches.And what is so sad, it used to be a really desirable place to live and raise a family but all that is gone now.And like yourself when I retire all you will see is a vapor trail from this chit hole Portland has become.
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Hello and welcome! Great to have you here. 
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Right, it's crazy expensive to live here. A 1300-square-foot 3-bedroom/1-bath ranch with no basement lists for $366,000. And if you buy it, you'll be within a few minutes' walk of multiple homeless encampments.
Gotta love Portland thinking. There's homeless, and the leaders say it's because there's not enough housing. Not saying I agree, but if that's true, then the urban growth boundary is the exact opposite of what you want. Every year they grow it a tiny bit. This serves to keep property prices high, which those who already own homes here like. (It also drives the mania for monster houses jammed into tiny lots, because developers want as many lots as possible).
It's lunacy, but then, that's Portland.
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Lots of Portland neighbors and majority voters support the mayor and the city counsel.
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For me it was and always be the old Portland Sports Arena and Portland Wrestling..Good post brings back good memories of Portland. Two places I loved were the original Crab Bowl, huge portions of fresh
seafood always a line out the door and Marco Polo's the best Szechuan China food.
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when I first touched down to stay in PDX in the 70s this was one of my favorite sandwich places:
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Ok, not to get political or up in anyones grill, but wasn't it "Rose's Restaurant" owned by Max Burnbach and Ivan Runge on NW 23rd, specializing in Vienna style sandwiches and cakes, and "FarrellS ICE CREAM (Lloyd Center and...?) where you could get a "Zoo", which was too much ice cream for a single mortal human to ingest?
If'n I'm wrong, and there really was a Roses Ice Cream parlor, please detail it, I might have missed something when I was overseas in the service. I learned of many new songs that I missed, even up to 10 years later, just being out of country with no US radio station nearby.
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Oh god do I remember FARELLS...spent many a time there eating myself sick..the "pig trough" was my heart attack in a bowl choice in those days
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No, Im talking about Rose Ice Cream Parlor it was located on 45th and Fremont.
I know the people who owned it, it wasnt Max B.
It closed and later reopened on 42nd and closed again.
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Yea, the government class makes much more than the private sector regarding median income.
Ahhh! Thanks! Still listed on the internet (of all places). https://locu.com/places/roses-ice-cream-portland-us/
"Veritable Quandary" I have some great VC stories! Also, fella named Frank Peters has some of the best deep dish pizza at his downtown place he called "Peter's In" or Peters INN" one of the 2, that is, before he wrongly went to jail about 1978 or so. Dude was a good guy that got shat on by the system in my view. He played baseball before the restaurant gig.
One of a kind good guy Frank Peter's
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OK, I just read the whole thing I linked above. Wow, didn't know all that about Frank Peters. So, nevermind. Dude still seemed like a good person (in person).
To me.
Then there's this: https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22779-old-dirty-bastard.html
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Peters' girlfriends included fiery punk-rocker Kate Fate, lead singer of Kate Fate and the Fingers of Doom. Frank recalls the day Fate showed up at his Portland Center penthouse apartment and knocked on the door. Peters, just out of the shower, inquired, "Who's there?" She replied, "Marry me or die."
When Peters said that marriage was a very important step and they should talk about it first, Fate fired three "penis-high" rounds from a pistol through his door. She missed, and Peters was philosophical: "In the old days, gunshots were just loud noises. Now everybody takes them seriously.""
That's the guy. LOL
To me.
Then there's this: https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22779-old-dirty-bastard.html
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Peters' girlfriends included fiery punk-rocker Kate Fate, lead singer of Kate Fate and the Fingers of Doom. Frank recalls the day Fate showed up at his Portland Center penthouse apartment and knocked on the door. Peters, just out of the shower, inquired, "Who's there?" She replied, "Marry me or die."
When Peters said that marriage was a very important step and they should talk about it first, Fate fired three "penis-high" rounds from a pistol through his door. She missed, and Peters was philosophical: "In the old days, gunshots were just loud noises. Now everybody takes them seriously.""
That's the guy. LOL
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Never made it there to watch live action, but watched on TV with my dad and grandad many times. I remember Dutch Savage, Jimmy Snuka, Apache Bull Ramos, The Kangaroos, Moon Dog Lonnie Mane... That looks like it might be Tough Tony Borne in the photo? And of course, Dandy Sandy Barr was always the referee.
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You're quite right on the picture being tough Tony Borne, his son Matt became a wrestler as well for a time in Portland during the heydays of Rowdy Roddy Piper, Billy Jack Haynes, Playboy Buddy Rose, and Rip the Crippler Oliver just to name a few, later on he became Doink the Clown in the WWF (now WWE. Good Ol Dandy Sandy refereed there for years and owned the swap meet lot right next door, I heard he also in later years bought the promotion from the Owen family (Don and I can't remember his sons name now) and then sold it to Roddy Piper and Don Caus who was an on air announcer once upon a time way back when. Great memories all around of the city and what was going on around it back then. Thanks for the comment and chat!!
I remember those other wrestlers as well, with the exception of Doink the Clown. It seems like I saw Rip Oliver and Matt Borne live in Roseburg probably 40 or so years ago. The announcer I remember was (I think) Frank Bonema. Yeah, Sandy owned the swap meet and Dutch Savage sold firewood. I don't think the wrestling paid then quite what the WWE does now.
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Really?!? I'd never heard Dutch sold firewood. He had a really nice place out near Lake Oswego if I remember correctly. My dad said he had a nice range set up for all his cohorts there back in the day, bet that was a hell of a lot of fun for sure. Omg I remember Frank Bonema too! I think he was a Salesman at Tom Peterson's as his normal day job. You're quite right, I doubt they made a hell of a lot of money back then in comparison to nowadays, but I'm willing to bet they had a LOT more fun.
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Went to high school with Sandy Barrs son Farren and sparred with him on our wrestling team at Roosevelt High School. Spent many a night at the matches and days at the flea market. The good old days LOL, Moved away in the 80's to Bend and lived there 30+ years, Now it's a crap pit too!. Sold my house for 7 times what I paid for it and now live at the Oregon coast mortgage free.
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Very nice! The good old days indeed! I did much the same in leaving in the late 80's, for me it was off to far flung places in the Marine Corps and then later on with the Army and finally settling in Tucson Arizona until a year and a half or so ago. Came back to Oregon and living nicely on the Southern part of the coast now. Sadly the city I'm in (Coos Bay) seems to be following much of the rest of the cities with more than 30k people and is quickly becoming one of the Socialist people's strongholds of Dictator Brown.
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Rose's had another incarnation out in Beaverton sometime in the late 80s or 90s. I lost track of them . IIRC for a while there were 2 divergent clans in succession to the original NW23rd location. Don't recall the fate of their dinner plate sized donuts claim of ownership.
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Another of my favorites was Pals Shanty out in NE Hollywood area. In my Bucket of clams & beer for lunch days there was a string of taverns with quirky menus throughout the neighborhoods.
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