"Although the rooftop is worth a visit, especially on a nice day, this is a typical McMenamin's. Same food, drink, and service you would receive at any location." end quote.
I had eaten at Mcmenamins at the Hotel Oregon in McMinnville, Oregon after
visiting Evergreen Air and
Space Museum in the same general vicinity. So, after I returned from staying
at the Timberline Lodge with
my son and daughter and her boyfriend and skiing there, I returned to Portland
to stay one night so I could
catch my flight the next morning home to San Francisco. So, after I checked
in we decided to go to the
Mcmenamins in Portland at:
1716 NW 23rd Ave
Portland, Oregon 97210
End quote.
So, when we got there the waitress was very friendly and told my son and
I that she had come
to the city of Portland from Bend, Oregon near Mt. Bachelor where she
had learned to ski really good.
I asked her what she thought of Portlandia with Fred Armisen from
Saturday Night live and she said
a lot of people who worked at Mcmenamins loved it but that she
hadn't seen it yet. I said that for me
it was sort of nostalgic to watch as I had come to adulthood in the
1960s when Portlandia ideas were
all the rage and had sort of morphed from there. She said, "In Portland
being weird is sort of in."
Someone mentioned a Portland bumper sticker which reads
"Portlandia is weird" and another bumper
sticker in Portland says "Weird isn't working" which is sort of a play
on words or an inside joke for
the region. My wife was saying it is sort of like the way "Weirding"
was used in "Dune" the movie
and book by Frank Herbert or something like that. So, Portlandia the
TV series is interesting in that
it is a caricature of a real thing culturally. For me, it is just nice to know
that some people are still trying
to live their "Alternate Dreams" unfettered by the panic of the rest
of the world.
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