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1
Ew.

After this I see the construction workers going on to some employ much less gaggy. Like sewage worker.
2
Interesting article you linked to. It'll be the Crystal Hotel though, right? With the Zeus Café inside.
3
You forgot to mention that Club Portland was "5 Floors of Intrigue"! This is going back nine years on Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020124224019/…
4
Oh yeah, here's the rate list. In '02 it was $20 for a membership, then $10 for a locker ($7 for "students" under 25)...so it would've been $30 on the first visit. Higher on the weekend, though.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020408223638/…
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I worked at Club Portland between 2004 - 2006 and about half of your "reliable guy"s claims simply are not true.

I'm not saying it wasn't gross -- because it was.
I'm not saying drugs weren't a problem -- because they were.

But it certainly was not on the glorious level of seediness and disrepair as stated above.
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So drugs and grossness as problems existed -- but were not true?
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I got tired of walking by this place on my way to Powell's not knowing what it was, so I finally stuck my head in the door on a sunny afternoon and asked the guy behind the window what 'Club Portland' was. I swear he looked down at this feet and mumbled "....gay bath house..." I felt like I should tell him "Hey, that's OK, ya know? Don't be so hard on yourself!"
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Thanks for those links, Todd! "Gateway to the Gayway"... yes.
9
Yo Sarah, my sister's boyfriend is on the construction crew for the renovation. He said it's been "interesting".
10
That filing cabinet....
Man! I wonder is there's a budding war for it...?
Twink-e-leaks....?

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