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Grande Mart

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  1. When I went to the Tower of London when I was in college, I had my friend take a picture of me with my head down on this stump in the middle of the courtyard pretending I was getting my head chopped off. Later on I realized that stump was what these guys stood on to do their speaking.
  2. Do they look like this?
  3. Th Tillman Bridge by the Hoover Dam is fun to walk out on. If you've only driven across it, you don't know what you are missing. It was cool to watch it being built every time I drove out to Vegas from Texas. I do kinda miss driving over the Hoover Dam though.
  4. Stanford star Cameron Brink is from Beaverton, so she'll have lots of local supporters
  5. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be awesome weather here, so if anyone's coming up from Texas, should be a good weekend to visit Portland.
  6. I live in Portland but will be in Seattle on Friday, so I'll miss that game. I'm hoping we make it to the elite 8 so I can go on Sunday. Definitely a lot of Gonzaga people around here, and I've seen a fair number of Stanford stickers on cars. Texas got screwed on this location, but I'm excited to see them, if I can.
  7. I did put a big scratch on the drivers side door from a tree branch on engineer pass. It was still there when I sold it 15 years later at 260,000 miles.
  8. Anybody drive Black Bear pass?
  9. Yeah, that bottleneck at the I-5 bridge going north to Vancouver along with the I-5 bridge over the Columbia itself is one of the worst spots on I-5. Hard to get Washington and Oregon to agree on how to fix it. Here's a disaster simulation showing what would happen to the Burnside Bridge. Plans are moving forward to rebuild it so it will survive a big quake, but that process in itself will be a bitch. All the other bridges over the willamette with the exception of the new pedestrian mass transit bridge are assumed to likely collapse, I believe, in the event of the Cascadia Subduction Quake, which there is a 40 % chance will happen in the next 50 years. Simulation shows how the Burnside bridge would also collapse onto I-5, which you are right has some elevated sections itself.
  10. Yeah, I always think about the 1989 World Series Earthquake and the highway collapse when I'm stuck in traffic on the Marquam (I-5 over the Willamette) or the Fremont (I-405) Bridge in Portland. At least there is a nice view of downtown and Hood, St Helens, etc... If there is a big Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake during rush hour, that will suck. I guess it's lucky that the 1989 Earthquake happened during the World series between the Giants and the A's so there were a lot more people off the roads watching the game.
  11. This one in Astoria always concerns me a bit. Not to mention all the bridges in Portland knowing they will pretty much all collapse when the great Cascadia Megaquake happens
  12. There was a Sirloin Stockade or something like that in my home town that once had "Try our smothered tips" on their sign in front of the resturant. I decided to get a t from somewhere and rearrange a few letters and change it to "Try our mother's tits" . Giggled for years when I would pass that spot.
  13. Ku sucks at basketball. Not good timing with Zona coming into the conference and Houston kicking ass
  14. I remember as a kid all the grandfathers were WW2 vets, some of the dads were vietnam vets. The old 100 year old guys that were dying were WW1 vets,---Growing up in the late 70's and 80's
  15. My wife's grandfather was in one of the army air bases in Hawaii on Dec 7. He wouldn't talk about it much , but he did tell me once about dragging guys from a burning building, he had burn scars on his forearms. he was back in action by guadalcanal and served for the duration in the pacific. One of the most awesome guys I know. He was out drinking the night before since it was saturday night. He died recently at the age of 103. In his 80's he helped me build a fence around a half acre lot in August in central Texas. In the afternoon, I got tired of working and said let's call it a day and finish up tomorrow. He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "there's still daylight." So we kept working,
  16. when bodies on one side are worth less than bullets on the other side
  17. I thought he finally gave up drinking
  18. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2024/03/smell-of-fumes-prompts-alaska-airlines-emergency-landing-at-pdx.html Who farted?
  19. I always liked United. Not as good as HEB of course, but they were pretty good. Definitely sucked when Albertson's took over.
  20. A lot of the cattle up there are in the big feedlots southwest of Amarillo. That's what gives the city it's wonderful smell.
  21. I was born on the llano estacado. Never cared for Lubbock
  22. He didn't start the fire
  23. Buddy used to work at Braum's in high school. He'd hook us up. Definitely miss Braum's
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