Elect me to city council and I will replace all aging esoteric storefronts with Stumptown outfits. Mmm, slurp!

GOOD MORNING, SMIRK! HOW ARE YOU?

GOODBYE, DIXIE MATTRESS CO. YOU'LL BE MISSED! YOU MADE THE NEW TRANSPLANTS (myself included) GO "WTF?"

Now I'll never be able to make that commercial featuring an olde tyme southern gentleman proclaiming, "The South shall rise again...from a glorious night's sleep on a Dixie Mattress Company Mattress!!"
fuck.

OMG they forgot the "r" in mattress.

Is this because they lost out to Sleep Country for the Clark County Amphitheater naming rights?

Of course, "Why see a concert anywhere else?" works a little better than a reference to the Confederacy...

Clinging to the old south and misspelling "mattress", coincidence?

Haaaaaaaaa...."Mattess"

goddamn beautiful.

Seeing that on my way to work this morning made me so goddamn happy. I don't care what replaces it, as long as they take down the sign and the window bars. Who the fuck was going to steal a "mattess" through the window, anyway?

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE I HAVE A HANGOVER!

Not that it matters all that much, but as a Reedie I feel obligated to point out that Dixie Matt(r)ress isn't anywhere near Reed. It's over on Belmont.

Westsiders are a weird and superstitious lot.

stumptown annex annex.

Was Dixie Mattress ever even open? I lived down the street from there for years and they were always locked up. And what was up with their display window? It had a bunch of random shit in it, like bird cages and milk bottles, that were covered in a layer of dust.

I envision replacing Dixie Mattess with a Stumptown amusement park. Slides and pools full of coffee. A donut swing. Rollercoasters.

Why don't we give it to the Blazers to make Jumptown Annex?

@Showstopper: Reed College is about 4 miles south of Dixie Mattress, but why let the facts get in the way of your judgments?

On the other hand, an Amsterdam-style "coffeehouse" would be a great improvement over another freaking Stumptown.

Good riddance! The Confederate flag is not just a symbol of Southern pride; it's mixed up with a history of hatred. People who display it know that it's offensive. They usually do it anyway because they're stubborn.

That misspelling = 1 millions of LOLs

@Amanda: I know! Fuck the Dukes of Hazard and states' rights. We don't need 'em anyways!

i've never even seen people in the store, it was a waste of good space! hopefully something exciting (for me) will move it!

also, i wouldn't consider that very close to Reed either. it takes me at least 7 minutes to drive to Reed from there. that Starbucks on the corner of SE 39th & something-or-other is close, as is Trader Joe's and Limbo's. Belmont...not so much.

Here are some ideas for that space:

1. "Stumpcakes": A joint effort between Stumptown and Cupcake City (or whatever it's called, that shop on the other end of the block). Cupcake batter and espresso grounds are forced through porta-filters, producing single origin demitasse souffles. Which would still not be sold individually, only six to a box.

2. "DixieNation": A resource/community center for white power skinheads and nascent militia folk. Yes, I know what you're thinking, this is a bad idea, but they *are* an under-served minority in Portland, and they seem to be suffering mightily under this "Nobama" fellow (I imagine they'd have to keep the bars on the windows, though).

3. New York Times Field Office: Because there doesn't seem to be anything going on in New York for them to write about these days, anyway...

Ku Klux Kleaners!

"Coming" soon....Yankee Pud Roost...I mean Pot Roast

@Jason
"They get your whites really, really WHITE"