tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post113022235835618894..comments2024-03-26T21:46:56.291-07:00Comments on The ZehnKatzen Times: [pdx_life] Another Eastside Sign Code VictimSamuel John Kleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514541030057763303noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post-1130275138802129552005-10-25T14:18:00.000-07:002005-10-25T14:18:00.000-07:00I'm sympthetic. I've always had a thing for signs ...I'm sympthetic. I've always had a thing for signs and I remember the way they'd give a street a certain sort of character and feeling. Some of them where kitschy, kinda-suburban-trashy but brilliant works of art. <BR/><BR/>The Zim's sign should go without saying.<BR/><BR/>The BigDollar sign just reminded me of when I saw suburbs on shows like Adam-12, the suburban feel of the TV landscape. I grew up in Silverton, where there's no such thing as a suburb–even to this day. <BR/><BR/>For a while it looked as though I'd lost the photo of the sign. You can imagine how we felt about that.<BR/><BR/>Yeh-neighboring stores connected so's you don't have to go outside to get to the other one...that <I>was</I> cool.Samuel John Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514541030057763303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post-1130253958804608092005-10-25T08:25:00.000-07:002005-10-25T08:25:00.000-07:00Or I could be confusing that corner with 162nd and...Or I could be confusing that corner with 162nd and Stark, I'm not sure. Division had a Thriftway store which became a Videoland, which apparently became an Aaron's Crap-For-Rent store.stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13332368314010617781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189482.post-1130253801093672972005-10-25T08:23:00.000-07:002005-10-25T08:23:00.000-07:00Losing that sign is like losing a piece of my chil...Losing that sign is like losing a piece of my childhood. I'll never forget Mom taking us along when we went to the drug-store post office to get "C" rate stamps, or strolling along the aisles of Scott's 88-Cent Store, which was connected -- on the <I>inside</I>, which was the coolest thing ever for a nerdy kid -- to the Safeway store.stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13332368314010617781noreply@blogger.com