Woodstock? (Portland, Gresham, Milwaukie: rooftop, to live in, shop)

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Too bad you arrived in the neighborhood after Country Bill's shut down.
It was located where Gentle Dental is now.

Though it was kind of fading away in the last couple of years, it used to be the best place around for prime rib and roasted chicken dinners.
During it's last years, it's clientele was mostly older seniors that had been going there for Friday and Saturday night dinners for decades.
It was very interesting to see the old facade of the building when they remodeled it.

BTW, the Bi-mart used to be the old Safeway.
You can still see the old "swoopy" Safeway store architecture if you go inside (and look up at the ceiling), and still see the old Safeway style exterior walls with the white rock by the pharmacy window.

Where Safeway is now was an old Thriftway or IGA or something like that.
It was like a miniature Fred Meyers.
Safeway moved in and remodeled in '93 or '94 if I remember correctly.

Fenders used to be Mickey Finn's, and that used to be Mike's Auto Parts.
Nudi used to be Pace Setter Athletic, and way back when, that little building was a small bank.

Sorry about the history lesson, but that's my old neighborhood where I grew up, and I love keeping track of the changes.

[nestvine]

No, I love it. It is always nice to know the genesis of things.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Well, the construction fence is up around the buildings that are coming down for the New Seasons market.

Someone has aleady spray-painted "GENTRIFICATION COMPLETE" on the roof overhang on the west side of the building.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

All the old buildings are gone now, it was very interesting to see all the old facades, and how the buildings were added on and renovated throughout the years.

IMHO, they needed to come down, they were well past their prime.

The cyclone fence and the black plastic barriers are up, the construction of the New Seasons market is about to begin!

[oldtintype]

Mickey Finn's is gone (mentioned in a previous post)?!

And where is New Season's exactly--what cross street?

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Mickey Finn's (one of the first brew-pubs in Portland) is long gone, replaced with a lackluster motorcycle themed eatery called "Fenders".
The NUDI noodle restaurant, right next door, is very good though.
It's a very nice change from the horrible (now defunct) "Woodstock Teriyaki" that it used to be in that building....


New Seasons is directly across Woodstock from the Safeway complex, the south side of Woodstock between 45th and 46th.
The only thing left on that block is the Red Fox Vintage store (used to be Apple Crate Furniture), on the corner of 46th and Woodstock.

Radio Shack closed and is now the Portland Fish Market, which is open for business, and the Flower Shop will be a new Bakery soon.


I predict that the next big "project" will be the north side of the next block from the Delta Café to the Lutz Tavern.
That whole block building(s) is infested with rats, water damaged, structurally unsound, and ready to be demolished.

People are screaming "GENTRIFICATION", but it is nice seeing Woodstock Blvd getting a face-lift.
It needs it.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Woodstock got hit by a bunch of vandals smashing car windows last night.
Pretty much the same area that was hit by tire slashings a few months ago.

Wonder who's behind it?

The timing suggests school (maybe college) age kids.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

This is a resurrected old thread from several years ago.

Woodstock has changed so much in the last couple of years.

It is still a very nice neighborhood, it seems like it has avoided all the Portland Baloney.

Recent Nextdoor posts indicate a lot of naive millennial people moving in to the area.

Still good for affluent double income professional families just starting out.

Not a lot of homeless issues.
Except for extreme rampant petty crime by meth heads on bikes, it is OK.

Never leave anything of value outside and in plain sight, there are night-time roving bands of these worthless criminal people that will steal you blind.

It seems like all the crime here happens under the cover of darkness.

[texasdiver]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

This is a resurrected old thread from several years ago.

Woodstock has changed so much in the last couple of years.

It is still a very nice neighborhood, it seems like it has avoided all the Portland Baloney.

Recent Nextdoor posts indicate a lot of naive millennial people moving in to the area.

Still good for affluent double income professional families just starting out.

Not a lot of homeless issues.
Except for extreme rampant petty crime by meth heads on bikes, it is OK.

Never leave anything of value outside and in plain sight, there are night-time roving bands of these worthless criminal people that will steal you blind.

It seems like all the crime here happens under the cover of darkness.

Is the Lutz Tavern still there? That was the local college dive bar hangout when I was in school in the early 1980s. They had the cheapest Blitz shortneck bottles that you could find anywhere in Portland back in the day.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Tavern is still there, but only in name. As far as I know it got sold, at least once, it's still there but the atmosphere isn't the same.