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The Weather in Portland today
by under_believer 13 Replies latest jw friends
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under_believer
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under_believer
In other words, unconscionable!
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Euphemism
Ouch! It's 90 in Seattle, and this is the first time I'm regretting not having air conditioning. It's supposed to go down into the 70's on Wednesday, though.
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bikerchic
How Portland are you? A pinch of Pixie Kitchen dust, a belt of Blitz beer, a bit of rain and a blast of weird . . . here's your secret decoder ring to unlock the decades of idiosyncrasies that make this a great place
Sunday, June 25, 2006
School is out. Summer's here. It's time to spruce up the house or apartment for out-of-town guests and visiting relatives. Just what kind of a city do you live in, they will surely ask. Good question. There are about 115,000 more Portlanders now than in 1990. Just what is a Portlander, anyway?
MEASURE YOUR PDX-FACTOR
You've taken out-of-town guests to:
The Tillamook Cheese Factory
Timberline Lodge
Multnomah Falls
Darcelle's
Mary's Topless Club
At Saturday Market, you've purchased:
An elephant ear
A tie-dyed T-shirt
A dream catcher
A silverware wind chime
duct tape wallet
Your garage has:
Roundup
A gas-powered mower An electric mower
A push mower
Who needs a mower?
You have:Clip-on earrings
Pierced earrings
Pierced nose rings
A giant plug from Irian Jaya
Are you now or have you ever been a member of:The City Club
The Mazamas
The Royal Rosarians
The Sacred Sister Sewing Circle
Your car cost:$300 Which you split with a friend.
It doubles as a storage shed.
A Howard Dean sticker holds the brake lights on.
The rack is for your $3,000 Trek bike.
You've eaten:Tad's Chicken & Dumplings
A Red Coach burger and fries
Pho noodle soup with tripe
Chicken feet dim sum
A Voodoo doughnut
Your libations include:A sip from a Benson Bubbler
fruity pinot noir
A lush craft beer
A half rack of PBR
A 40 on the beach at Marine Drive.
BONUS QUESTION Where is this? Name the artist and the work. What is its nickname?Answer: Standard Insurance Building, Southwest Fifth Avenue and Taylor Street; Count Alexander von Svoboda; "The Quest"; "Three Groins in a Fountain"
FAST FACTS TO IMPRESS VISITORSSally Struthers. Grant High School. Class of 65.
Matt Groening. Lincoln High. Class of 72.
Lindsey Wagner went to David Douglas High School.
The average commute is 23 minutes.
"Mr. Red Sox" Johnny Pesky was born in Portland.
We're at the same latitude as the Twin Cities, Ottawa and Milan.
The elevation at PDX is 30 feet.
We have the deepest subway station (260 feet at the MAX zoo stop) in North America.
Linus Pauling was born here in 1901.
Clark Gable sold advertising for The Oregonian in the early '20s.
There are 32 old volcanoes and cinder cones scattered about here.
Iconic cartoon voice Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny) grew up in Portland
Want more?
The official tourist office link: www.pova.org
The official City of Potterville site: www.portlandonline.com
A guy in Tigard (?!) with a nice, all-in-one hit: www.herring.org/portland.html
Pictures. Lots and lots of pictures: www.portlandground.com
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A PORTLANDER IFYou've bought a potholder at the Verboort Sausage Festival.
You call it the Banfield. Not Interstate 84.
You know how to pronounce Glisan and Couch.
You've made an unplanned purchase of a sweat shirt at the Oregon coast when the fog rolled in and the horizontal rain started.
You've spent a summer afternoon at Reeder Beach on Sauvie Island. (Extra points if you were naked.)
You've taped off a family spot along the Rose Festival's Grand Floral Parade route.
You've gone roller-skating at Oaks Park.
You've heard Darcelle sing "Rhinestone Cowboy," and cringed at the chaps closer.
You've gone clubbing and have had breakfast at the Original Hotcake House on Southeast Powell as the sun rises.
You've wolfed down the dinner-platter-size burger at Helvetia Tavern.
You've dropped into Huber's for Spanish coffees -- plural.
You've done Christmas at The Grotto. Or the zoo. Or Peacock Lane.
You've worried about the lack of rain.
You've booked your B&B room at Ashland for next year as you check out this year.
You've picked huckleberries on Mount Hood and made jam.
You can pronounce Heceta, Imnaha and Owyhee
You've learned to keep a straight face when people talk about being dog rescuers.
THE REAL OREGONIAN'S VACATION CHECKOFF LISTSnowshoe McKenzie Pass. Soak at Belknap Hot Springs.
Blue Mountains. First snow. Elk. Rifle.
Tram to the top of the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
The Let 'Er Buck Room. Pendleton Round-Up. Ceiling. Your bra hangs there.
The Happy Canyon Indian Pageant. Dorothy, this isn't Portland anymore.
Window seat on the left when flying into Portland from the East Coast.
SOLV beach cleanup. Check.
The Dufur Threshing Bee.
Hike to the bottom of the Crater Lake trail.
The oars are in your hands at Coffeepot Rapids on the Rogue River.
August. Ebb tide. Columbia River. Buoy 10. Your salmon in the fishwell.
Here I am on top of Mount Hood.
TOO BAD YOU MISSED Gov. Tom McCallOregon's leader from 1967 to 1975, he had charm, wit and principle. His two most famous lines capture him well. He once accused Spiro Agnew of giving a "rotten, bigoted little speech" at the National Governors Conference in 1970. Agnew confronted him and McCall would only say, "I'm not sure I said 'little.' " With government paving the way for 1 million new Oregonians in the coming years, and a recent poll showing one-third of Oregonians not wanting much growth, McCall's 1971 line is reason to pause and ponder. "Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't come here to live."
The Pixie KitchenThe Pixie Kitchen was in Lincoln City, and a monument to 7-year-olds and their martini-drinking grandparents. You entered through a hall of fun house mirrors and got to the table laughing. The food, even in the '70s, was '50s-ambrosiac: fried cod balls for the adults and cottage cheese with Wheat Thins for the kids. There were bowls of too-cold celery, radish roses and carrots that looked as if they'd been cut with pinking shears. Best of all, the dining room overlooked a park with the Pixie Train. Curvy painted mermaids perched on rocks, and their scrawny painted mer-elf helpers rode unicycles.
SatyriconFrom the early '80s to the mid-'90s, it was the most vital rock club in Portland, a valued outpost of the stylistically wide-open American post-punk underground of the '80s, a key stepping stone for the Seattle bands such as Nirvana that would remake popular taste in the early '90s, and a bastion of no-nonsense bohemian aesthetics and wild times -- right in the heart of what was then dingy Old Town.
Farrell's Ice Cream ParlourIn 1963, Bob Farrell opened the first Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour in Portland. It was popular from the start and unique with a turn-of-the-century decor, outlandish desserts, sirens wailing and a free sundae on your birthday. The signature dish was the Portland Zoo, a huge tureen of basically every flavor ice cream with every flavor of topping. A built-in candy store beckoned as you tried to leave the restaurant. Chuck E. Cheese's was never like this.
Little Beirut ASK YOUR OLD-TIME NEIGHBOR ABOUT:Electing a pro-choice Republican U.S. senator (Bob Packwood) and an anti-war Republican (Mark Hatfield).
Moe serving you clam chowder at Moe's.
The '50s and '60s and the Hoyt Hotel in Old Town. Its Barbary Coast lounge was party central in an era when government cracked down on what it now runs.
The elevator ladies at Meier & Frank
Blazermania in the 1977 championship season, prolonging a streak of Memorial Coliseum sellouts at 12,666 fans.
Being one of 13,395 at the Coliseum to see Jefferson beat Baker City for the 1972 state basketball championship.
Druids dancing at Sam Hill's Stonehenge during the total eclipse in 1978.
Barkeep Bud Clark's 1984 upset over Frank Ivancie in the mayor's race.
The Janzten Beach Roller Coaster. A classic wooden one. You would think someone could build another monster coaster around here.
The Rajneeshees. No. Don't miss them.
Blitz beer brewed at the Blitz-Weinhard brewery.
The Portland Buckaroos. A second-tier hockey team with first-tier hustle, showered with unconditional fan love.
The Oregon Journal. There used to be two dailies in this town. Maybe somebody can blog about it.
Being able to Eat Now at Waddle's.
Of course we missed something. Just what is a Portland signature? An Oregon one? Drop us a note at [email protected]. Include your full name and hometown and we'll print responses and post others at www.oregonlive.com/O/.
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gumby
...were gonna statrt calling you Kate-bandwidth-waster
Check this out,
Redding Weather at: 3:53 pm PDT F° | C° Currently: 116°
FairHigh: 114° Low: 77° · Text Forecast · Records & Averages · Get this forecast by email · Get Yahoo! Weather on your desktop 5 Day Forecast
Gumby.....who balls are bakin when he's in the sun to a nice golden brownToday Tomorrow Tue Wed Thu 6-10 Day
High: 114°Clear
Low: 77°
High: 114°Sunny
Low: 75°
High: 106°Mostly Sunny
Low: 74°
High: 91°Partly Cloudy
Low: 70°
High: 99°PM Thunderstorms -
bikerchic
...were gonna statrt calling you Kate-bandwidth-waster
Check this out,
gumbsmartass...
Yeah but it's a dry heat so get over it!Currently: 116° -
serendipity
I like Portland - even at 97degrees. At least you can drive to the coast in 1.5 hours and cool off.
Here in Dallas, our average high is 98 for the entire summer.
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Carmel
what coast? Hell it was 94 here today!
carmel of "the coast crowd"
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bikerchic
what coast? Hell it was 94 here today!
carmel of "the coast crowd"
Well Todd I guess I could tell you to go jump in the ocean and cool off but that might sound aweful cranky of me so I won't. I wouldn't want to get the gumbastard upset.
Fanning myself and trying to type.......longing for the dry desert heat.
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QueenBee
ARRRGH. Hate this weather today!!! No way it was only 97. I live in Gladstone and driving back from my sister's place in Oregon City, my car told me it was 102 degrees!!! My poor hubby is lying on the living floor with the fan blasting him, watching "Deadliest Catch" because it shows men working in really really cold conditions. Bee
