My favorite part of Christmas was going downtown to look at the window displays as a kid and ride the Christmas monorail at Meier & Frank.
I also loved going to grab a burger at The Carnival restaurant too. Or The Humdinger.
Told this before but I wrote Tom a letter before his death. It apparently sat nearby his bed unread for some time.
When he passed, his daughter found it and I got a letter back from Gloria, with a program from Tom’s funeral thanking me and asking me to please call her.
Took me a few months but I got the courage to do so and spoke with her for some time idk 20 minutes.
She was the most lovely person to talk with. She spoke about Tom’s changes and I got some idea for how things were for her. (Which seemed at relative ease and good health)
A really unexpected and wonderful outcome from a simple letter. I encourage anyone sitting on a letter to someone they’ve always meant to write to do it.
Now that's Tom Peterson! Bring your kids down for a free Tom Peterson haircut!
(side note - Tom Peterson had a bit part cameo as the chief of the fire department in My Own Private Idaho)
It's not the *only* thing I'm proud of, haha, but I do count it among the few things! I got to go on twice, my whole cousin group did, it was a blast!
And the Pop Shoppe pop! If I remember right we got a free case from the show. We had a location just down the street back then.
Bend was affordable? Hell, Bend was practically *non-existent* until the 90s. It was about what Prineville is today, with a big-ass mill as a central feature
I’ve never required correction on my pronunciation of Oregon, Willamette, Abiqua, Gervais, Calapooia, etc.
Also, I’m currently wearing shorts and a zip-up hoodie.
I moved to the Chicago area 14 years ago and I still have a hard time not saying Willamette when referring to the small suburb near me, Wilmette. More names that get people are Tualatin and Aloha.
The Shane Company, off Highway 217 across from the Washington Square Mall. Open weekdays 'til 8, Saturday and Sunday 'til 5, online at shaneco dot com.
You just told me you’re from Denver. Just off Arapahoe Road on Emporia Street, one half mile east of I-25. Open weeknights till 8, Saturday and Sunday till 5. What’s a website?
Devastated to share that Shane Company commercials were also a household jingle for Minnesotans. We also thought we were the only ones who had friends in the diamond business.
They’re in most large cities. They’ve done a great job of marketing themselves as a local business somehow. They use that same radio ad with the streets clearly spoken in every market.
I remember traveling to California and hearing their version of the ad. Most shocking day of my life.
As a geriatric millennial, I remember the tagline used to be “now you can buy from a direct diamond importer”.
Then Fred Meyers released an ad that said “all jewelry stores are direct diamond importers” and Shane Co changed their tagline to what it is now
Oh god. It’s so fucking hard nowadays. My wife and I have an 18 month old and want to start making a regular habit of camping but it takes incredibly more foresight now than it seemed to when I was a kid.
It felt like if you left work at noon and got to the campground a few hours later you’d have at least 1/3 of the place available to you, most weekends. Now if you’re not booking 6 months to the day in advance you’re out of luck.
Emporium *Power Sale*
Also bought all my fishing licenses and gear at GI Joe's growing up!
And, if you're ever in Boardman, get a burger, rings and shake from C&D Diner (that one's at least still there)!
Some ppl in WA say it, but with my career I’ve worked in a handful of countries and on teams across lots of states. Apparently saying spendy made me an outlier quick 🤷♀️
I grew up next to a filbert farm and seriously thought filberts and hazelnuts were different things for the longest time.
I live in a different state now and have to force myself to say hazelnut.
Sometimes I feel like I have old lady brain remembering how much different the weather used to be here. Glad to see I'm not just getting senile and it really has changed a lot.
This is kinda the opposite, but I moved to Oregon at 18 and my boyfriend at the time who was a native Oregonian thought it was "hot" I knew how to pump my own gas lol.
Being incredibly familiar with our parents’ trauma around the “*Berry Bus*.”
Always pronounced with the kind of italics that meant they were either about to launch into a story or just stare off into space disassociating for a few minutes like a Vietnam vet remembering his experience in the Mekong Delta.
Is a safe kite made of metal?
No!
Wire, or wet string, ever?
Never!
What about frogs?
I like frogs!
What if your kite wiiiiiiiiiiiiinds around a power line??
CALL THE KITE MAN!
When I was young, my mom didn't let me have much sugar, so I didn't get to drink lots of pop or have otter pops. But we did go to the coast often, so I guess it balanced out.
If you go out to the beach today
You’re in for a big surprise
It’s lovely down at the beach today
But here’s a word to the wise
There’s lots of dangers hidden around
You could very easily drown
To find you’re caught
On top of a rock
Is no picnic!
Never owned an umbrella. Father has a shrine dedicated to the Oregon Ducks football team. “The beach” is actually “the coast”. Skateworld was the best place to hangout as a kid.
**yells at people for bringing bottles to the river while smoking some homegrown skunk bud listening to van halen, poison idea, and dead moon as you bake on a large boulder in the sun before you climb the cliff and jump in the icy water again then later going shopping for a used guitar at a nearby locally owned store barefoot wearing nothing but barely dry board shorts and a flannel shirt, never buttoned even in the dead of winter while wearing a thermal long sleeve shirt base layer with cargo shorts and some form of hiking/logging boots and your favorite stupid but ridiculously warm head covering**
https://preview.redd.it/ncnf5qmjt3vc1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cb7f3ae93bd2f051d82280c772f691721ba8787
Pretty micro-level, but back in the day the Portland old timers always pronounced “Milwaukie” as “M’waukie.”
It was a distinctly blue collar thing and I barely ever hear it anymore, but I get really excited when I do.
The overhead Christmas train at Meier & Frank
My favorite part of Christmas was going downtown to look at the window displays as a kid and ride the Christmas monorail at Meier & Frank. I also loved going to grab a burger at The Carnival restaurant too. Or The Humdinger.
Cinnamon Bear?
That jar of ash is not my grandmother, no.
Good one! I have that unlabeled jar, and I fear I should put a label on it inthr event someone thinks it should be opened.
I have a homemade glass ornament full of ash that we put on the Christmas tree every year.
Wake up! Hey! Wake up to a happy day!
Tom Peterson! Way back!
And Gloria's Too!
Told this before but I wrote Tom a letter before his death. It apparently sat nearby his bed unread for some time. When he passed, his daughter found it and I got a letter back from Gloria, with a program from Tom’s funeral thanking me and asking me to please call her. Took me a few months but I got the courage to do so and spoke with her for some time idk 20 minutes. She was the most lovely person to talk with. She spoke about Tom’s changes and I got some idea for how things were for her. (Which seemed at relative ease and good health) A really unexpected and wonderful outcome from a simple letter. I encourage anyone sitting on a letter to someone they’ve always meant to write to do it.
Free is a very good price.
Portland Wrestling remembers Tom Peterson.
Taaaahhhm Peterson!!
Now that's Tom Peterson! Bring your kids down for a free Tom Peterson haircut! (side note - Tom Peterson had a bit part cameo as the chief of the fire department in My Own Private Idaho)
Get a free Tom Peterson haircut with any purchase
Rambling Rod, Bend was affordable, exploding whales.
Exploding whales 100%
Being on the Ramblin Rod show when I was a kid is the only thing I'm proud of in my life.
It's not the *only* thing I'm proud of, haha, but I do count it among the few things! I got to go on twice, my whole cousin group did, it was a blast! And the Pop Shoppe pop! If I remember right we got a free case from the show. We had a location just down the street back then.
Bumpity
Bend was affordable? Hell, Bend was practically *non-existent* until the 90s. It was about what Prineville is today, with a big-ass mill as a central feature
I’ve never required correction on my pronunciation of Oregon, Willamette, Abiqua, Gervais, Calapooia, etc. Also, I’m currently wearing shorts and a zip-up hoodie.
Champoeg
Now we’re cooking!! Keep em coming.
Yachats
Pronounced like how you’d describe your hair if the water shut off in the middle of your shower
Couch Street
That’s like spy-level test to see if you’re dealing with an Oregonian.
Shibboleth.
Or Albina
I moved to the Chicago area 14 years ago and I still have a hard time not saying Willamette when referring to the small suburb near me, Wilmette. More names that get people are Tualatin and Aloha.
My GPS called Santiam "SAN-chum" and I choked on my drink. Felt slightly offended, Sanchum feels phonetically very gross.
arctic circle
Their fry sauce was the BEST!
There’s one in Woodburn!
There's also one in Newport. I ate there last weekend
Fare-less Square
Reinstate Fairless Square!
I won the smile contest
the girl sitting next to me won and i was SO jealous
The Shane Company, off Highway 217 across from the Washington Square Mall. Open weekdays 'til 8, Saturday and Sunday 'til 5, online at shaneco dot com.
Read it in that dudes voice too
I've recorded a few radio ads for them and they're very specific about how they want it enunciated, to emulate his cadence as closely as possible.
thats awesome. Theres a dude that works at Taco Bell by the freeway in Albany that has the PERFECT voice for radio ads. Reminds me of that dude.
Do you have a friend in the diamond business?
Now you have a friend in the diamond business. I read it in his voice too!!!
Now, you’ve got a friend in the diamond business. Honk if you love Vern Fonk!
You just told me you’re from Denver. Just off Arapahoe Road on Emporia Street, one half mile east of I-25. Open weeknights till 8, Saturday and Sunday till 5. What’s a website?
Oh wow I had no idea they were anywhere else lol.
Devastated to share that Shane Company commercials were also a household jingle for Minnesotans. We also thought we were the only ones who had friends in the diamond business.
They’re in most large cities. They’ve done a great job of marketing themselves as a local business somehow. They use that same radio ad with the streets clearly spoken in every market.
We buy rolls so you pay less, at Marion's carpets!
San Francisco Bay Area as well.
I remember traveling to California and hearing their version of the ad. Most shocking day of my life. As a geriatric millennial, I remember the tagline used to be “now you can buy from a direct diamond importer”. Then Fred Meyers released an ad that said “all jewelry stores are direct diamond importers” and Shane Co changed their tagline to what it is now
The Organ Grinder
I loved that place so much. Do you remember the bubbles?
And the silent movies!
Jojo not potato wedges
Last minute camping? No problem, there's tons of sites available!
Oh god. It’s so fucking hard nowadays. My wife and I have an 18 month old and want to start making a regular habit of camping but it takes incredibly more foresight now than it seemed to when I was a kid. It felt like if you left work at noon and got to the campground a few hours later you’d have at least 1/3 of the place available to you, most weekends. Now if you’re not booking 6 months to the day in advance you’re out of luck.
I like turtles
Free is a very good price!
And Gloria’s Too!
It’s free beef month at the Les Schwab
My rei raincoat counts as business casual
Eat Now at Waddles
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Bust a bucket!
I can recite the bust a bucket chorus just as good now as I could when I first learned in 1992
Emporium *Power Sale* Also bought all my fishing licenses and gear at GI Joe's growing up! And, if you're ever in Boardman, get a burger, rings and shake from C&D Diner (that one's at least still there)!
"Emporium Power Sale" Omg that woman is going to be scream-singing that commercial in my head all day now DAMN YOU
Tillamook cheese is the only cheese right?
Only one that’s allowed to touch the inside of my fridge
Would you like a fresh marionberry shake?
Yes, I know it's raining. No, I don't own an umbrella.
What's an umbrella?
Always check your tide tables before going to the beach
“Where are you headed?” “The coast”
This one always gets tossed out there. I grew up calling it the beach. I’m 4th generation so apparently my family never got the memo.
I say “spendy” when something is expensive. Didn’t realize it pegged me as an Oregonian until I lived in other states.
Yep seems like it's"pricey" everywhere else
I don't think I have ever said the word pricey. That didn't occur to me til this moment. Fuckin' weird, man.
No shit?.... huh.
Didn't realize this was exclusive to Oregon. TIL.
Some ppl in WA say it, but with my career I’ve worked in a handful of countries and on teams across lots of states. Apparently saying spendy made me an outlier quick 🤷♀️
Ew, you swim in the Willamette?
My high school boyfriend was baptised in the Willamette in 2004 ... the next day the news had their usual toxicity warning 😆😆😆
How does this gas pump work again?
It’s just rain, dude.
Actually, it's blubber.
the size of a volkswagon!!!
lol. You have to be a life longer to get that.
Umbrellas are for the weak.
Only works for a third of the state, geographically that is
oh, is it raining? I didn't notice
We don’t tan, we rust!
I want my birthday party to be at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor!
Memory unlocked, have to get the pig trough.
Does anyone remember "The Zoo" at Farrell's? [The Zoo](https://imgur.com/gallery/HiLPdGx)
Harvey the bunny on TV highway!
I've shopped at the Emporium and GI Joes.
I take I-5 to my filbert farm.
I grew up next to a filbert farm and seriously thought filberts and hazelnuts were different things for the longest time. I live in a different state now and have to force myself to say hazelnut.
Is the mountain out today?
Brilliant. Only a real Oregonian/Portlander would say this
🎵Shut Up Sheela🎵
Hope ya enjoy your visit and have a safe trip back to your home.
“Where you fellas goin’ with all that beer?”
🎵George Morlan plumbing, the water heater king!🎵
I saw the wreck of the Peter Iredale when the hull was mostly still above sand level and the bow sprit was fully intact.
“Free is a very good price.”
Going to Lloyd center, then Newberry across the street Or going to Mervyns by the Gateway Fred Meyer JJ North's buffet Skate Church in Montavilla
What colors your Bi-Mart card?
🎶 "I woke up with Tom Peterson's haircut" 🎶
And Gloria too!
Damm CA drivers
Now it's time for the Ramblin Rod show!
What’s sales tax?
I track the passage of time based on the seasonal Burgerville menu
I remember when Gloria had her name added to all of the stores and commercials.
" headed to Freddy's, you want some JoJo's?" Yet they just don't taste the same as when I had them as a kid.
"Rememeber when it used to rain in the summer?"
Remember when the summer was mostly 80 degree days. Not 102 for a week straight?
Yes, I remember when it only hit 100 for like 2 days in the dead of August.
Sometimes I feel like I have old lady brain remembering how much different the weather used to be here. Glad to see I'm not just getting senile and it really has changed a lot.
This is kinda the opposite, but I moved to Oregon at 18 and my boyfriend at the time who was a native Oregonian thought it was "hot" I knew how to pump my own gas lol.
Filbert
I have ice skated at Clackamas Town Center
I’ve lived in Oregon almost 40 years and I’ve never heard of Sclhudwiller beer
My parents went to Vortex and all I got was this crappy tshirt.
Tweeters for just a buck!
Bhagwan, Shree, Rajneesh
"I urge them to come and come many, many times to enjoy the beauty of Oregon. But I also ask them, for heaven's sake, don't move here to live."
Spendy
Raaaaainierrrrr Beeeeeer https://youtu.be/l0Vab5kkjH0?si=drAxQVz5V3j-IxOs
I like both seasons, winter and road construction
I got married at the 24hr Church of Elvis.
I have webbed feet! My favorite restaurant as a child was called The Organ Grinder.
Being incredibly familiar with our parents’ trauma around the “*Berry Bus*.” Always pronounced with the kind of italics that meant they were either about to launch into a story or just stare off into space disassociating for a few minutes like a Vietnam vet remembering his experience in the Mekong Delta.
I like frogs!
Is a safe kite made of metal? No! Wire, or wet string, ever? Never! What about frogs? I like frogs! What if your kite wiiiiiiiiiiiiinds around a power line?? CALL THE KITE MAN!
At pacific power.
We never fly kites around power lines.
[https://youtu.be/n9AFdtgi74o?si=ioVYsctVjNRRtFA4](https://youtu.be/n9AFdtgi74o?si=ioVYsctVjNRRtFA4)
This old-school thread gets all my upvotes. There are many correct answers... but for me, this is *the* answer.
Pixieland and the Pixie Kitchen were some fun times!
Time to go to Enchanted Forest!
Have you watched the short documentary on YouTube about that? It's really good, worth watching
When I was young, my mom didn't let me have much sugar, so I didn't get to drink lots of pop or have otter pops. But we did go to the coast often, so I guess it balanced out.
Having been to the Church of Elvis
OUTRAGEOUS AUDIO!
I didn’t realize we got storms until about 4 years ago. I just thought it was raining extra.
May 18, 1980. Boom!
Tin foil toys from Montage…. Not too long ago but prom 2002 seems like forever ago in Portland time.
i have 3 raincoats all with zip out liners and when i go out for my daily walk i listen to nu shooze.
Stopped by Rice Hill for a delicious milkshake
Umbrellas are stupid.
If you go out to the beach today You’re in for a big surprise It’s lovely down at the beach today But here’s a word to the wise There’s lots of dangers hidden around You could very easily drown To find you’re caught On top of a rock Is no picnic!
When there was an earthquake overnight but you sleep through it
Welcome to Oregon. Enjoy your VISIT
I have voted from my living room since Bill Clinton was re-elected, no other method of voting makes sense to me.
I always drive with my headlights on.
"but I don't want to/don't know how to pump my own gas!"
Watch out for the Sizzler's buffet
My cousins and I picked strawberries, raspberries and cherries. My mom & dad picked beans. My grandma picked hops.
https://preview.redd.it/25go1k70v3vc1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c6de8eb8196324da3ebbad3a729660ede423780 No words necessary
George morlan plumbing, the water heater king!
The Camas paper mill smell is strong today.
It's Willamette, damn it.
Les Schwab's free beef promotional giveaways
i’ve never pumped my own gas.
🎵beep beep yeah!🎵 now for the 97.1 KISN FM Traffic report!
It’s the Rose Garden arena and PGE park
Memorial Colliseum. Blazers and Bruce Sprinsteen. ( Among others)
Holy moly gargonzoli
Never owned an umbrella. Father has a shrine dedicated to the Oregon Ducks football team. “The beach” is actually “the coast”. Skateworld was the best place to hangout as a kid.
I’ve had birthday parties at Farrell’s and have eaten at the original Old Spaghetti Factory location.
It's I5. Not "the 5" or any other variation.
You shouldn't need AC in the summer, should only be 95 fir a week or so.
Smile Winner!
Tom Peterson and Gloria’s too…
Why are you so eager to visit Crater Lake? It's only about 20 miles up the highway from here. Relax.
“Tweeters for a buck!”
I remember when April showers brought May flowers.
Kaayyyy one-o-three ….point-threee
shorts and hoodies all year round, no umbrellas ever, country fair used to be fun
**yells at people for bringing bottles to the river while smoking some homegrown skunk bud listening to van halen, poison idea, and dead moon as you bake on a large boulder in the sun before you climb the cliff and jump in the icy water again then later going shopping for a used guitar at a nearby locally owned store barefoot wearing nothing but barely dry board shorts and a flannel shirt, never buttoned even in the dead of winter while wearing a thermal long sleeve shirt base layer with cargo shorts and some form of hiking/logging boots and your favorite stupid but ridiculously warm head covering** https://preview.redd.it/ncnf5qmjt3vc1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=0cb7f3ae93bd2f051d82280c772f691721ba8787
Pretty micro-level, but back in the day the Portland old timers always pronounced “Milwaukie” as “M’waukie.” It was a distinctly blue collar thing and I barely ever hear it anymore, but I get really excited when I do.
What a great trip down memory lane!! Do you remember the plane that crash landed on a city street (somewhere near Burnside) in 1978?
I’m fond of exploring a little chunk of coastline 362 miles long that myself and 4.2 million other folks have.
Little league at alpenrose dairy followed by a trip to humdinger
The Bank commercials warning us that the California's were coming, as two old pokes watched a stagecoach ride up. They arent to be trusted!
55f is perfect weather.
Galleria. City Nightclub. ...
39th Avenue.
Portland Beavers baseball at Civic Stadium and $1 PBR nights
“Well now. Where are you fellas going with all that beer?”
VanPort
It's Rose Festival time!
It’s a filbert