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History and Art – Overdue Visits

I have been wanting to do this walk for quit a while. I final got in to see the new third floor exhibits at the Oregon Historic Society Museum and got to the Portland Art Museum on there $5 after five on Friday. I was able to get the photos I want for the website and was able to check on all of the changes that have gone on. The third floor at the History Museum has the story of Oregon and is a permanent exhibit. They booth did a redo and update but also worked to give a more balance view of our past. The Art museum has been going through an extensive face lift with changing out items from their collecting and opening up new display area. They are doing more with temporary displays and showing more local work. I should now be able to complete my website pages on these two visitor’s spot.

Oregon Historical Society Museum

Portland Art Museum

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New Explorations

Finally my foot healed up enough to get back out for more exploring Portland. It is interesting that when you live in a place that you can walk by something for years and never take time to explore it. So it was for me with the Maritime Museum and the Grotto. Then there are places that you visited 20 years ago and you never go back some how thinking they never change. So it was with Oregon Historical Society Museum. Then there are those thinks you learned 28 years ago, when Portland crime rate was so high, you did not do because you would die, like take public transit. So I took the Streetcar in downtown. It was a bit confusing but I did not die. All of the new info I have on these places and experiences I have add to the this website.

Also, I had to stop in for doughnut and there are scooters everywhere.

Main entry sign on Sandy Blvd.
A welcoming figure.
One of the station of the cross bronze relief.
In a natural rock face they hollowed at a little cave and put some statues in it.
My Streetcar arrives and my first time to figure out how this all works.
Farmers Market at Shemanski Park happens on Wednesday during the season. First time I have timed it to see it.
It is Fall and when the fresh press cider shows up at the farmers markets.
The market was full of late season fresh vegetables.
As you enter there is a plaza to your left. What more impressive it the mural on the building. A very 3-D form on a flat building wall.
The end of the entry hall is dominated by this mural.
Someone recently donated there collect of 60’s concerts memorabilia to the museum and they made an exhibit out of it.
One of the older buildings in Portland.
I walked down past city hall and got some photos of it.
Located in Chapman Square with all of the Judicial and government building around it.
Not that seeing some one on a bike or now seeing e-scooters is unusual but seeing the fountain running is.
The Portland paddle wheel steam ship.
The large steam piston that drive the paddle wheel.
Photos, models, memorabilia and information are display on the now museum deck of the Portland.
In the Pilot house with the helm and engine order telegraph.
Pilot House on the Portland.
Pipes and pumps are everywhere on this business desk of the ship.
The old downtown Voodoo Doughnuts neon sign. At 1 a.m. it is you beacon to a sugar rush.
Watching the action out side on the street on a slow afternoon.
Two revolving display cases show most of what is available. I like their chocolate cake doughnut with chocolate icing that is not displayed and you have to ask for it.
No walk to the fringe areas of downtown is complete without walking over or by the homeless.
One of the Lovejoy viaduct columns. This was a good idea to preserve a unique bit of Portland that failed. A bit of Portlandia before there was Portlandia.