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Cafe Unknown: March 2006

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Tanner Springs Park is in the March 2006 issue of Metropolis Magazine. Portland’s Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District is featured in the Metropolis Observed column in the March issue of Metropolis Magazine. Since attending an introductory presentation at the First Congregational Church a few years ago, I have watched the project with interest as it seeks to reveal a long lost wetland landscape in the middle of a new urban neighborhood. The same location, in 1994 and 2006.

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Cafe Unknown: February 2006

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. The story begins, as it often does, on a train. This year for New Years we opted not to choose between staying home and finding the right bar full of strangers. This year we went to Vancouver B.C. There we would meet fellow holiday refugees and celebrate the NewYear. We arrived at Seattle's King Street station on time at 9:45pm. View from the elevator , Seattle's Hotel Andra. After crossing the Snohomish River the tracks veered inland into an area of rolling hills, forests far...

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Cafe Unknown: August 2006

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Hung Over on Burnside. They were called the Arcades: Those buildings on East Burnside with their upper floors above the sidewalk. They date to a 1928-1929 street widening project which added two extra lanes to East Burnside, at the expense of the sidewalks. When the sidewalks were re-installed, it was at the expense of bordering storefronts. Of the original ten between Union (MLK Blvd.) and SE 11th, five remain. Nothing came of the idea. Future Restaurants and bars could open ...

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Cafe Unknown: January 2006

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Sunday, January 22, 2006. Portland can be hard on its defining elements. As anyone who has pondered the fate of the late lamented Hotel Portland knows, progress does not march forward in Portland so much as it stumbles. In the process interesting things get knocked over. Yesterday’s parking lot is today’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, itself a worthy centerpiece. The Hotel Portland exists only in collective memory. There it would by joined in 1964 by the fire-doomed cathedral of wood that was the Wo...One d...

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Cafe Unknown: September 2006

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Sunday, September 17, 2006. A Good Ruin is Hard to Find. In the 1940’s photographers in Portland, such as Minor White, began to document the heartbreaking piecemeal destruction of Old Portland’s cast-iron fronted city beside the river. Thirty years later when the process was complete, only twenty of the approximately one hundred eighty cast-iron ornamented buildings survived. Photographs by Dan Haneckow, 2006. As Gideon Bosker and Lena Lencek state in Frozen Music, A History of Portland Architecture :.

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Cafe Unknown: October 2005

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Saturday, October 15, 2005. You can wait a long time between trains in Astoria. The last scheduled passenger service between Portland and Astoria ended in January 1952. After that, save for a few excursion specials, the line has been used only to haul ever decreasing amounts of freight. Nothing is hauled on the last twenty five miles to Astoria. Y through Monday from Linnton, (north of the St. Johns Brid ge) to Astoria. Nd offers little in the way of surprises for those familiar with that road. Peopl...

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Cafe Unknown: June 2006

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006. The Overlook Neighborhood area in the 1930's looking south on the Willamette River and the Portland Airport on Swan Island. Click on pictures to enlarge). A version of this article appears in the July / August 2006 issue of Overlook Views. The Overlook Neighborhood is at the far southeast corner of North Portland, the part of. On the peninsula between the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. From another perspective, it can be said that the neighborhood sits on parts of. Circa 1852, "G...

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Cafe Unknown: April 2006

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Sunday, April 23, 2006. 57 years at 10th and Morrison. The two photographs below were taken at SW 10th and Morrison in Portland Oregon, the first in 1949, the second in 2006. The same street corner in the same city but in very different worlds. The photos show that even with many of its elements present, the past is elusive quarry. Click on pictures to enlarge. In 1950, a year after the photograph was taken, both the #504 and the Council Crest Line would be scrapped. The second picture is of Portland Vin...

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Cafe Unknown: July 2006

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006. I take a case, pro bono. What should the new luxury hotel being built in the upper floors of the old Meier and Frank building be named? It is an interesting question. The name should imply a sense of history and place for a place with history -but not as a hotel. We could probably do a lot of the homework and that type of thing ourselves, but we really feel it makes sense to work with somebody who lives in and is part of the fiber of Portland and Oregon. Eminem, from Without Me.