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99-08. The Gateway location right off 205 in Portland.
Halsey and, 102nd intersection.
04-08 the one off 4th Plain.
Part of my apprenticeship required taking welding classes at Clark Community College. The one off 4th Plain was where I would go for dinner after work before heading to those classes.
Right on! Yep it's very close to Clark...
I used to hit the one too in downtown couve. I would hangout at a buddy of mine Fred's bar downtown called Shanahan's then hit Mucho's after,. That's a cool spot (Shannahans) if you ever get down that way again. Fred's a great guy and was one hell of a Green Beret.
Crazy how small the world is.
Edit: You ever eat at McMennamin’s?
There’s one that is right on the Columbia River on the Vancouver side. My wife and, I had our rehearsal dinner for our wedding there.
Very small lol.
I havent been up there for a while - but a trip is long over due.
Back in I think 2014/15-ish some of us off here got together up there at PIR. @jeffro503 ,@ MotoSmith, @MXerDW (RIP), @typ2vw159 and his sidekick Muxlow ,722 & 726 and some others were there. Pretty wild/night and weekend. I never even made it to Washougal that weekend. LOL . I ended up at a Motley Crue & Alice Cooper concert with some RedBull model. lol
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Yes on McMennamin’s. Where that restaurant is located I used to throw big keg parties on the beach back in the 1980's. We called the spot glass beach. The only restaurant that was there was Who Song & Larry's, then the Chart House opened up.
I like the McMennamin’s theaters.
The theaters are awesome to. Nothing like ordering a pizza while watching a movie.
Bagdad in Portland….
I gotta reach out to Jeffro. He and, I are long overdue to get a fishing trip in together.
He's a good dude! And he can put down some IPA's.
I think we even hung with Georgia and Jimmy Albertson that night for a bit too. I think Georgia complimented me on my tan lmao ( @jeffro503 may remember).
Dude parked by Jimmy / white van posts on here too.I forget who that was.
722 playing Rockstar in Mux's van. ..
He does have an interesting conversational style, for sure.
You stood out with the tan 😂 That’s the best way to get a woman’s attention up here.
Everyone in the PNW is chalky and, pasty looking with the lack of sunshine. Summers are amazing. The rest of the year, meh….
Every time I go visit California, I’m trying to get tan lol.
I asked ChatGP to translate Pro’s dialogue into the Queen’s English:
I did a three-stop delivery today in three different towns across two states, all in strip malls.
At the first stop, a tree trimmer truck with outriggers and the boom up was parked in the corner where I needed to maneuver into a tight parking lot. It caused all kinds of problems — honestly, every stop had issues.
Pickup was in Georgia, way out in the boonies, about 100 miles south of Atlanta. I got stuck in traffic through Atlanta almost all the way into Tennessee.
There was nowhere to park, and it was constant hard showers off and on. At night, there was heavy fog and even more rain. I finally parked at a gas station off to the side — the only stoplight in town was right next to me. It was loud as hell, so I didn’t get much sleep before the deliveries.
Earlier in the week, I had a scrap yard pickup, and that was another disaster. They didn’t load the right stuff onto my truck. Had countless problems trying to get back in to reload. Then the overweight idiot running the forklift put it through the roof of my trailer, making a hole.
Another truck delivering scrap broke a tie rod (I was told probably the pitman arm) and ditched it in the driveway. We all had to wait for a wrecker to pull him out.
A 3,000+ lb bag of metal shavings kept slamming into my door and sprung it — now it doesn’t close without an hour of work. Ten wheelbarrows’ worth of metal shavings were all over the floor. I spent over an hour leaf-blowing it out, getting that crap down my shirt, into my underwear, and inside my boots.
Next, I had to take the trailer to a tiny repair shop to get a patch put on the roof. I borrowed their high-quality push broom and spent another hour trying to clean the metal shavings out of the floor.
The scrap load came after sitting around four days over the holiday because there were no loads within a 250-mile radius of Indy. From Thursday to Saturday noon, it was constant calls from work — most boring truck stop ever. No one would talk — even the illegals. I asked a few how long they’d been there, and they just stared and walked away. Very strange vibe.
I tried to stay busy — did laundry two days, went for a few walks, hit Walmart, added up receipts for taxes, etc. It was constant hard showers off and on — muggy like summer in the Southeast.
But you either starve, eat cold sandwiches, and fight for a parking spot — or deal with it. Getting stuff to these stores is a f***ing nightmare and doesn’t pay shit either.
That’s pretty awesome😂
Years ago when I owned a home up that way (Pre 2005) - I had bought a stand up tanning bed for one of the spare bedrooms.
Easiest way to fill your home with strippers & chicks in general around the PDX area. lol
We used to hit a lot of the strip bars in Portland. Dancin Bare(I knew George the owner) ,Viewpoint,ACrop ect...there's a hundred of them.
Here's something useful maybe for some of you guys who still like to party. Side hustle I had.
Around that same time late 90's early 2000's is when we started seeing webcam sites pop-up on the internet like i-friends -(it was like Chaturbate or MyFreeCams). The market wasn't as saturated and it was a very new thing. All those places had a referral program to bring in new webcam models. I registered a .com for like $9.99 and framed my affiliate link/referral code to it. I put it on biz cards. I would give them out to strippers or other chicks. At that time 1 referral paid about $250. So If I could get 4 each night while partying I could make a grand. This method I assume still works to this day. But there's more saturation. I think places like Chaturbate only pas about $75 per performer. I would say to them... you aren't bad looking do you any other form of modeling? That would break the ice. Then start in on I know a lot safer way for you to make money and way more than you are making here. All you need is a home computer and webcam. It worked well.
Edit : I just checked chaturbate pays $50 now per broadcaster you recruit. They payout once the person you recruit earns $20 in tips on their platform.
But still might be a decent little side hustle for someone.
Dancin Bare… Home of the $6 steak dinner 😂 (at least back in 98).
I got kicked out of Acrop after puking on one of the strippers yeeeeears ago. Those were the days.. 🤔 😅
There's a burger ville in Centralia you can hit when you ride burnt ridge. It's the furthest one north.
Awesome man. Thank you. Who knows how many times I’ve driven past it and, didn’t even notice.
My mom was a trucker so I was raised around folks that speak...and think just like Pro. That chatgp translation was spot on. Surprising...I figured Ai would think of Pro like a WW2 code talker.
That's about what I'd expect from a $6 steak dinner...lol.
Never heard of them, what part of the country are they in?
Pit Row
Dude, if you teach pro how to use ChatGPT, it'll ruin his career on this site.
West coast mainly.
Dammit Manny, I think I've mentioned this before but that is the Safeway between Crown and Camden right? My aunt lives a couple of blocks from there on Corvallis Court. Bought that house for $70,000.00 in 1977.
Yes, my Moto-Bro…I recall.
My folks bought a house on Redmond in 1973 for $37K (it had a pay-back note due it and my dad figured that out during his own title search! 🤣)
Years later…1981 right after I graduated HS…we moved farther out to the edge of humanity into a house we’d had built that was pretty nice and afforded me the ability to ride my CR from the house to my hillside practice track.
From there I moved out to New Almaden on my own and got back into the equestrian life for a few years and started breeding Huskies. Really, really, really…good times.
The stripper I threw up on was at the Acropolis.
I said, home of the $6 steak dinner 😂
Not a good place for a $6 steak dinner.
I was a train wreck back then. But, it was always fun and, a place for good stories in the making.
As they say…
“We were young”
There was a dancer from that crowd…that era…that could ride a Moto better than most the dudes up in this place…
Her name was Christy…Christina Steele. She was a bad ass. She was an awesome person.
Cancer stole her from us.
Fuck Cancer.
I don't remember her. I will have to try to find out her story.
The 2 girls that I can remember were Dawn Piazza & Mercedes Gonz. Both left a lot of guys in disbelief.
Had to go back up there last month. The San Luis Reservoir is fuller than I've ever seen it and the lake at Colero Rec area is fuller than I've ever seen it too.
Safeway, Albertsons and Fred Meyer are too expensive.
We do 90% of our grocery shopping at Winco, the other 10% at Walmart.
Anecdotally I want to say that groceries at the first 3 I listed are 10-30% higher then Winco.
It's been closed longer than I thought! The large building in the background is facing Puget Sound, the railroad tracks run parallel to Alaskan Way. Spent a LOT of time prowling the downtown from 89-92ish, it was a great time to be (relatively) young in Seattle!
A deep…sigh…”I remember, now.”
We need to go up there as a group…for a Supercross…that’s a great scene.
We could have a Helluva Nice “Long Weekend”. 🤣
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