The unofficial motto of Portland is “Keep Portland Weird”. As it draws closer & closer to the time when I leave this lovely city for at least a couple of years, I have been thinking about my favourite Portland things. There are many, but near the top of the list is this:
These hang in the parking garage I always park in when I drive downtown – and even before I lived here I would park in this garage (so I would know where to find my car!). As far as I know, the 3rd & Morrison SmartPark is the only place these fish live. And it’s my goal to find out WHY ARE THERE FISH HANGING IN THE GARAGE? They’ve been there for at least 15 years.
All of the fish have different designs on them.
Excuse the darkness, but I was, after all, in a parking garage.
That last one is my favourite.
So any PDXers know why these are here? I’m dying of curiousity.
Sorry, knitters, that’s 2 posts in a row without knitting content…I do have a FO blocking though…
August 14, 2007 at 3:49 am
Those are really cool fish!
No worries about no knitting – with my thumb injury, I haven’t done much knitting to even post about.
Can’t wait to see your FO!
August 14, 2007 at 6:30 am
Well, those are interesting!! Better than looking at nothing!
So..what..FO? nosy minds wanna know!
August 14, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I love those too. I guess for the same reason there’s a 3D salmon poking out of two sides of a different building in portland, and the reason there’s a giant purple octopus on another. Portland’s weird.
Actually, I think there’s a building statue that 1% of a public building’s budget needs to go towards art. I could totally be making that up, but I heard something like that somewhere. That’s why there’s all that random art at the Max stops.