Portland Street Blades: Old and Older

3711A picture snapped from the corner of NE 121st Place and Prescott St, near 122nd and a stone's throw from Parkrose High School.

It's interesting to me the way that tattered old sign directing the sojourner down Prescott St ... a local collector into the Parkrose nabe south of Sandy between 102nd and 122nd ... which is duplicated by the not-quite-equally-but-still-obviously-worn, obsolescent 2nd generation Portland street blade atop the corner post, was allowed to stay.

It's seen a lot of depredation.

NE 121st Place holds a place of import locally because, since Sandy Boulevard and NE 122nd Avenue are grade-separated, it forms he connection between Sandy east and west and 122nd's southbound side. The northbound side is accessed to and from Sandy by a jug handle ramp enclosing he Powell Grove Cemetery, a highly unique bit of street geography which I've explored in the past.

Also, there's more than one way to skin that cat; proceeding south past the access ramp to 122nd southbound leads to a connection to a one-block bit of Skidmore at a traffic signal that one can go north or south at.