Independence Week in the Neighborhood

Staying close to home during the extended holiday…

Aerial tram maintenance. Finished the job in only three weeks.
Tram cars wait patiently.
Putting it back together.

 

Protesters at Immigration & Customs Enforcement building face off with Homeland Security police.
ICE protest transitioning to homeless encampment? Inventory on adjacent Tesla sales lot disappeared for a week, but has returned. Demonstrators/squatters are not a danger to expensive automobiles?

 

Finding a quiet home on the river.
A nice place to raise a family… if only they wouldn’t shit on the pedestrian pathway.

 

31st annual Waterfront Blues Festival
Sunny afternoon at Waterfront Park.
The Mavericks tearing the proverbial house down.
Sun sets on music fans.

A Meander Through the Neighborhood

The South Waterfront in Portland is a neighborhood in transition. Formerly a heavy industrial area – the attendant pollution has supposedly been cleaned – it now features high-rise condominiums and newly-constructed apartment buildings. Although a couple restaurants have come and gone, in the last few weeks three, count ‘em, three new pizza shops have opened. There is also a gourmet ice cream shop and a place selling four-dollar donuts.

A free-pizza grand opening had people lined up all day
Grilled cheese and hand-dipped corn dogs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health care for our four-legged friends
We take good care of our dogs

 

 

 

 

 

Haven’t yet figured out what to do about dog urine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The neighborhood’s first auto dealer is getting ready to open and sell their electric cars

 

Zidell is building its last barge. They have concluded developing their waterfront property is more lucrative than building vessels. Food carts are now adjacent to their barge construction.

Zidell’s Emery Apartments – in the shadow of the Ross Island Bridge
Zidell’s last barge
Food carts moving in on barge construction

 

The neighborhood’s first homesteader