Sunday, October 07, 2007
St. Johns - Gateway to the Portland Harbor
John sent me a great link to PDXhistory.com's awesome St. Johns page. Before moving to Reno, and now Lake Tahoe, I lived in Portland, Oregon for the better part of 15 years - the bulk of that time in Northwest Portland, a little time in Linnton, and the last two years of my stay in St. Johns. I have something of a love/hate relationship with Portland, but still consider it home, and the St. Johns/Linnton area doubly so. Waking up every morning to a view of the St. Johns bridge didn't suck, plus at the time I had the World's Greatest Commute. St. Johns is a strange area of town in a town known for strange things. Like everywhere else in Portland its charm is slowly being eroded through gentrification, but even the eternal march of progress will never fully take away its magic.
At any rate, check out the images on PDXhistory.com, it's interesting stuff.
Labels: Portland, St Johns
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