Comments on: Make Gloves Not War http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/10/07/make-gloves-not-war/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sellwoodstreet http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/10/07/make-gloves-not-war/comment-page-1/#comment-15070 sellwoodstreet Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:22:02 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/?p=5202#comment-15070 The grenade has been up for about a year or so. For years prior the guts of the sign existed as a broke-ass old '70's clock. It used to have a readerboard that was my special project while I was employed at Liberty Natural Products, the owner of the building throughout the 90's up until a couple years ago when Grenade Glove bought the place. That building has quite a history, I believe it was built as a Safeway in the early 1940's. (It was replaced in the 60's by the current Safeway at 82nd & Burnside) After that it was a Kodak film processing lab, and then a VFW Hall through the '80's. I've been in there since Grenade rehabbed the place. There's now a half pipe where my desk used to be. Cool! I miss Montavilla, I lived and worked and drank in it's shady smokey taverns for four years in the earlier part of this decade. I moved to North Portland, and a year later, Montavilla becomes trendy. What gives? The grenade has been up for about a year or so. For years prior the guts of the sign existed as a broke-ass old ’70’s clock. It used to have a readerboard that was my special project while I was employed at Liberty Natural Products, the owner of the building throughout the 90’s up until a couple years ago when Grenade Glove bought the place.
That building has quite a history, I believe it was built as a Safeway in the early 1940’s. (It was replaced in the 60’s by the current Safeway at 82nd & Burnside) After that it was a Kodak film processing lab, and then a VFW Hall through the ’80’s. I’ve been in there since Grenade rehabbed the place. There’s now a half pipe where my desk used to be. Cool!
I miss Montavilla, I lived and worked and drank in it’s shady smokey taverns for four years in the earlier part of this decade. I moved to North Portland, and a year later, Montavilla becomes trendy. What gives?

]]> By: zehnkatzen http://portland.metblogs.com/2008/10/07/make-gloves-not-war/comment-page-1/#comment-15068 zehnkatzen Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:21:59 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/?p=5202#comment-15068 It's new-ish but not very new. I live out that way and I don't recall it going back too terribly far. I love our area of town, but hey! visit Montavilla now, before it becomes the next Hawthorne district and gets to expensive to even walk through! It’s new-ish but not very new. I live out that way and I don’t recall it going back too terribly far.

I love our area of town, but hey! visit Montavilla now, before it becomes the next Hawthorne district and gets to expensive to even walk through!

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