its all nice on rice posted:

It just felt really weird because we've been to countless sporting events, and it's the first time we saw everyone stop. The again, we're from the godless, socialist utopia of the PNW.

LifeSunDeath posted:

ansel autisms posted:

yeah, the sahara motel is in jordan valley, the mountain mural is in a portland bar, and the neon church is in the willamette valley somewhere

Code Jockey posted:

To me, Oregon will always be a vast land full of Red Green type dudes selling homemade wood art and living in the forests in either decaying mobile homes or bizarrely constructed shacks, a land of small diners where perhaps you're rolling the dice on getting food poisoning but it's absolutely worth the risk, a land where it's absolutely dead silent at night except the occasional pack of coyotes awoo'ing at the moon. Small towns that weren't just insular, dying holes full of racists, but just places where people just lived quiet lives, working at the local grocery or the library or the school, and had funny, dorky stuff in their small front yards. Maybe that's just me remembering my childhood with the ignorance and innocence that that implies, but I still miss it so much.

Inzombiac posted:

Portland and Eugene and mostly okay but anywhere else is a mess.

iwentdoodie posted:

I spent one night in Astoria and we got asked quietly to leave 2 bars cause 2 of our group were black and Mexican and the bartenders were nervous lol

Stanley Tucheetos posted:

I feel like this monument to obesity exemplifies what is Americana. My family would always stop here whenever we would go visit the grandparents as a kid.