In the 70s and early 80s in Portland, if you were a parent with a sensitive child who didn’t like to be the center of attention, Farrell’s was the place to bring him on his birthday to thoroughly embarrass and humiliate him.
Bright lights, banging drums, sickening quantities of ice cream, and teenagers disguised as members [...]
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Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour - a 30-something Portlander’s flashback (#2)
February 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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Sam’s Hof Brau - a 30-something Portlander’s flashback (#1)
November 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments
Walking through the Park Blocks between classes one day in the early 90s I ran into my old friend Nick. We’d been buddies in grade school and high school, but when he went off to OSU and I to Reed, we didn’t stay in touch. Several years later we both happened to wind [...]
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