There's a dive bar of incredibly long staning along Sandy in Northeast Portland.
On the north side of Sandy, on another one of those flatiron blocks, this one also bounded on the west by NE 74th Avenue and the north by NE Beech Street, is a building with a long history. Lore I've heard recounts it as having been built in 1928 originally as a tire and auto repair joint. I don't know when it became a dive bar, but that it did for years and years and years.
It's one of those buildings which became a landmark and probably still exists because it is one.
I give you The Pirate's Cove:
The Pirate's Cove is a dive bar, and one of Portland's many strip joints; it has been named suchly since 2002, and eighteen years is an eternity in Portland cuisine these days. Before that, though, it was an outfit called ... are you sitting down? ...
The Sandy Jug.
This terra cotta drabness is just one of many dressing changes for the building; at one time, the spherical cork in the jug was painted like an eight-ball.
That's it: just another Portland dive-bar strip-club ... of which there were a dwindling number going into the pandemic time.
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