New motto: "Keep Portland Violet"

[herr_oberst]

[LWJ]

Do tell. Where is this???

[herr_oberst]

NE Prescott off NE 42nd.

[Nostril Cheese]

I cannot express the level of awesome here.

In my neighborhood no less...

[thor66]

people moved there from Minn. ?

[ledhedsymbols]

Pretty goddamn awesome!

[Sooner or later]

Lawton has been having murals pop up left and right.

[thor66]

Portland is too groovy for its shirt

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by thor66

Portland is too groovy for its shirt

Is that Portland, Oklahoma?

[wdfifteen]

I need to take a trip to Lawton! Looks like a great place.

[rusnak]

As far as the painted building street murals go, Berkeley Ca is the first and best place to see that.

The people are really truly laid back, and really friendly. Not like the wound-up PNW types.

[LWJ]

Awesome. Micro road trip with the Mrs.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Thanks for a great thread!

[thor66]

Originally Posted by rusnak

As far as the painted building street murals go, Berkeley Ca is the first and best place to see that.

The people are really truly laid back, and really friendly. Not like the wound-up PNW types.

Bezerkeley does have a lot murals

[rusnak]

^ Gonna be honest, the coffee, music, and most brews are far better in Oregon/ Washington.

But Bezerkley did sort of invent the hippies, and well...I guess that's it.

[thor66]

I'd say SFO invited the hippies (many of whom are still lying in the gutter of the Haight) and Berkeley politicized them.

[rusnak]

The so-called Flower People began as a protest movement, in the United States, of the 1964-65 buildup of military forces in Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. "Operation Rolling Thunder" and the bombing of the communist Vietnamese forces in Laos followed the overthrow of French occupation of Vietnam or "French Indochina" in 1954. The wealthy and liberal student community of the University of California at Berkeley began a small group of the earliest protest marchers and protest speakers, and they had the time to organize college "teach-ins", which formed a foundation that gave rise to a wider protest moment, forming a symbolic core by the expressions of peace through music, and poetry, and art. It was a combination of questioning the war build up, and years later added an expression of drug culture and a rejection of authority. I would say that the teenagers took hold of the act of protesting in their own selfish interests, and this gave way to a wider "movement" of experimentation with drugs and general expressions of counter-culture. By this time, the Golden Gate Park became a gathering place for the "Hippie Movement", being approximately a half dozen blocks from Haight and Ashbury intersection and the home of Janis Joplin. The earliest intellectual protestors were mainly wealthy kids who did not have to work because their parents had money. As the protests formed a following, the message became the messengers. Ironically, the birthplace of the movement, which was a form of radical political participation, had changed and left behind it's original purpose, and it somewhat destroyed it's center of creation. But it was the intellectuals among the Berkeley-ites who started it all, even if SFO gets credit for the popular lifestyle years later.

[varmint]

The Easter half of the state just voted to secede and join Idaho. But everything is fine.

[thor66]

Originally Posted by varmint

The Easter half of the state just voted to secede and join Idaho. But everything is fine.

so it only applies in spring?

[herr_oberst]

Eastern Oregon WISHES they could secede. Wonder what they'd call the combined State? Idahoregon? Bundyland? Brigham Youngstown?

Anyway, here are two additional murals I see on my bike journeys around Portland.

Can a town adorned with images like this really be the Sodom and Gomorrah that some of you are describing?