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I Love Portland: The Dave Knows T-Shirt!

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You guys, we made a t-shirt!

I Love Portland t-shirt

By we, I mean my lovely wife Heather created the design and our friends at Astoria Screen Printing printed the shirts.

And we’re selling this limited run (we only have two dozen) for cheap – $18 each (plus $3 shipping).

The Port and Company shirts are heavyweight (6.1 ounce) 100% cotton (preshrunk) in Dill Green. The graphic is dark green – the proof above is a pretty darn good representation of the final product.

To order, select your size below and click Buy Now (you can change quantities on the next screen) – thanks for supporting Dave Knows Portland!

SOLD OUT!

I hearty thanks to all the buyers – new design coming soon!

Ticket Giveaway: Portland Timbers vs. Toronto FC (July 30, 2011)

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UPDATE: The contest is over . . . the winner has been contacted – thanks for playing!

Portland TimbersThe Portland Timbers host Toronto FC at Jeld-Wen Field on Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 8pm. And Dave Knows is giving away a pair of tickets to the match!

The seats are in section 117 – not the Timbers Army section mind you – but rather in the west stands with a great view of the field. Two All Zone All Day TriMet bus tickets are included!

To Enter: Who is your favorite 2011 Portland Timbers player? Leave a comment below with your answer.

The Winner: The winner will be selected in a random drawing of all valid entries* on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 5pm.

*The Timbers player you select does not have to be on the currently active roster, but must be on or have been on the roster this season (so Adam Moffat and Ryan Pore, for example, are valid entries).

A valid email address must be provided in the appropriate field below so that I can contact you if you win. You do not, however, have to give a real name, and you can leave the Website field blank. I will not use the email address for anything except contacting the winner. The winner will be contacted by email and ticket delivery arrangements must be made before noon on Wednesday, July 27, or the tickets will be given to someone else – so make sure to check your email!

One entry per person please!

Don’t fret if your comment does not show up immediately – for various reasons some comments go into moderation, but I will attempt to approve them promptly!

Dave Knows Turns 4!

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Dave Knows Turns 4 - rocking the birthday hat Unicorn-style!Dave Knows Portland was launched four years ago today – that was one thousand, nine hundred, and thirteen posts ago!

That first post was about beer, which was a harbinger of things to come – the most popular blog post categories over the years (and I’m still not bored of them) are beer, the Timbers, and festival. But I’ve written about everything from eating contests to Canada too. A few categories have actually spawned their own websites – as long time readers know, I’m obsessed with quite fond of poutine, which I now blog about at Portland Poutine. More recently I launched Portland Soccer Bars and TriMet Diaries.

But ultimately, Dave Knows Portland is my home. Heck, I don’t actually live in Portland right now, but I’m still (healthily?) obsessed with what’s going in Portland – both to benefit you, my dear reader, and myself – for I’m still spending a lot of time in Portland (almost every other weekend it seems).

But ultimately on the occasion of the fourth birthday of this blog, I would like to thank you – for making it worth writing.

Thanks for reading, commenting, linking, and lurking – there’d be no point without you!

Hawthorne Boulevard: “Way Too Much Portland”

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Way Too Much PortlandThough the corner of Southeast 37th and Hawthorne is, fortunately, not anywhere near representative of Portland as a whole, it does provide spectacular people watching opportunities.

An anonymous individual (who evidence suggests may live above the Peet’s Coffee on said corner) has noted this preponderance of peculiarity and started a photo blog to spotlight the weird people and happenings:

I highly recommend a visit. You can also submit your own photos of crimes against fashion, hair, music, and the olfactory organs of passersby.

Hat tip @CarolynMain

Urban Archaeology in SW Portland

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Burlingame Fred Meyer (Photo by Samuel John Klein)The Burlingame Fred Meyer (7555 SW Barbur), the oldest store in the chain that is still operating, is undergoing renovations and will be closed until September. The renovation work, ZehnKatzen Times blogger and culture vulture Samuel John Klein notes, has revealed some clues to the building’s design past:

Naturally, having the outside off the way it is, the building has had its skin removed; we’re looking at the bones. It’s more interesting than I thought it would be. For instance, in the above photo, notice the slanting-out faces of the vertical supports. They have details on, some grooves in the masonry that add visual interest, and there are mansard-style caps on each of them.

See more photos and read more of Samuel’s thoughts and comments on the building and the vintage sign (which will be retained post-renovation) in his post: Urban Archaeology at the Burlingame Fred Meyer.

Photo credit: Photo of vintage Burlingame Fred Meyer Sign by Samuel John Klein, used with permission.