Early morning in my hometown. This\nbuilding was boarded up in my youth, but has since been put to\ndistinguished use as a great coffee shop. Across the street, Oregon\nCity’s theater once stood. I can’t believe I’ve forgotten its name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also across the street, the Oregon City\nLibrary stands, a Carnegie gem, lovingly restored and expanded a few\nyears ago, a project financed by the voters when the government asked\nthem to finance it. Who votes no on libraries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent long, long, hours in this\nlibrary, reading books and magazines and checking out records. I\nthink I still owe a fine for a lost Stevie Wonder album. I always\nwent to the library alone, on foot or bicycle. My mother never once\ndropped me off or picked me up. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oregon City sure has changed a lot in\nrecent years. The downtown finally resurrected itself. I like the\nchanges. The Grand Ronde Tribe wants to buy the old mill site on\nOregon City’s side of the Willamette River. I hope they get it. It\nwas theirs once. But please film a war movie there and blow up some\nof the machinery. But, please leave a few traces standing to remind\npeople that OC was once a three whistle mill union town and supported\na vibrant middle class. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve got about 20,000 words on a memoir\nabout growing up in OC in the 70s and 80s, tentatively titled Pioneer\nPride<\/em>. I hope to release it in 2020 if the zeitgeist is right,\nperhaps release it only in Oregon City, in bars, libraries and street\nlibraries, thrift stores, the Elevator, one old news rack. Who knows?\nThat’s the way I publish these days. I hope my old Oregon City\nfriends will support it. It’s not going anywhere without them. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I stash a few of my books in the\nlending library here. They always manage to disappear by the time I\nreturn. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone very special to me still lives\nin Oregon City. I so wish we could reunite, preferably in Howell’s or\nConey Island or the Fall’s View. OC still has three great Oregon\nTavern Age joints left! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n LA Woman plays. The Doors just don’t\nseem to garner the attention from current media and listeners other\nbands from that classic era do. Today, I find myself much more\ninterested in their music. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yard work for my Old Man later this\nmorning. Also, a possible meeting with important people about the\nmost far out cultural event in Oregon history\u2014Vortex I. Naturally\nit has a far out Oregon City connection and his name was Dr. Cameron\nBangs. He used to practice medicine not too far away from where I am\nwriting this. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early morning in my hometown. This building was boarded up in my youth, but has since been put to distinguished use as a great coffee shop. Across the street, Oregon City’s theater once stood. I can’t believe I’ve forgotten its name. Also across the street, the Oregon City Library stands, a Carnegie gem, lovingly restored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,942],"tags":[1051,806,652,1050,6,704,1052,1053,166],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-oregon-city","tag-coffee-shop","tag-coffee-shop-novel","tag-coffee-shop-writing","tag-dr-bangs","tag-matt-love","tag-oregon-city","tag-oregon-city-coffee-shop","tag-singer-hill-coffee","tag-vortex-i","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}