Posted Jun 10, 2014, 8:12 PM
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Location: Portland/Cascadia
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Don't forget Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. When I moved here in '96 I remember both of those movies as being very much in my mind. Also, Portland's reputation as being a hotbed of leftwing radicalism. When I ended up in Olympia a couple years later, a lot of people in the music scene were moving down here (as opposed to Seattle), as I ended up doing, again, myself. There was maybe less self-awareness of being cool in anyone else's eyes outside of the NW back then -- the craft beer world was maybe 1/4 the size it is now, I remember Higgins and Genoa as being the "good" restaurants in town, there were art collectives like Red76, great all-ages venues like Meow Meow... I could go on. I actually think things are much better now, overall. I always laugh when I hear people, many of whom I suspect may have moved here a few years ago, bemoaning how they no longer recognize "their" town.
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