I, Anonymous Nov 5, 2014 at 4:00 pm

What Didn't Happen to Division Street

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1
*sigh*

Shut the fuck up.
2
Just wait until they start jerking off onto their wood fired pizzas.
3
Standing Firm! Or sitting, that too...
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The amazing irony of all the redevelopment is that the very quirkiness and unique creativity that is attractive to the city and developers will be priced out and banished. D'oh!
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"Not many folks ventured south of Hawthorne back then"

WUT?
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I only live a block away but never patronize any of those new businesses. The new food cart pod is the only shining ray of light.
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What the hell is this person talking about 2008!?! Division had a lot of stuff on it in 2008. That street was happening way before that. It's just got really lame in the last few years.
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Lick my balls Lauro.
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Ohhhh since 2008 huh? So old school. Shut the fuck up.
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Landmark Saloon is pretty happenin
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If these people miss what Division was like 8 years ago they should go move out by 82nd and enjoy patronizing chain restaurants and dodging traffic and methheads for a while until that neighborhood also gets cleaned up.
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This was the case too when the Satyricon was the last hold-out on 5th ave but it eventually disappeared. I do miss the old Satyricon - minus the heroin and crack dealers - and I also miss the malty beer cooking smell that was part of the downtown experience... That old gerkin jerkin theater will get pushed out eventually, it's just a matter of time, I'm sure of it. I honestly don't care about the theater myself but it is funny to think about how much it pisses off the bleached and pressed yuppy gentrifiers, hahaha. Besides, I'm sure the owner is just waiting for the property value to max out before he sells it.
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2008??!! I live on Division St. back in the early nineties. No fire roasted pizzas, no micro brews, no high-rise condos. Dive bars (real dive bars, with old drunk people drinking at 10am), dive white trash eateries (anyone remember Ruthies?), auto repair shops and corner local groceries. Division St now, and back in 2008 is not, and will never be like it was back when I was living there. Very, very sad.
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Hear, hear.
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I had to read some of the comments before I even realized the first sentence said anything about 2008. Yeah, that's not much of a tenure. At least you got to experience the end of the lesbian and anarchist era before they all skated. Actually, I think even the anarchists were gone when you arrived.
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What's lost on this idiot is moving there in 2008 makes them part of the gentrification of that neighborhood.
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What's lost on this idiot, is the fact that moving there in 2008 makes them part of the gentrification group.
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the division bell rang years ago.. its now a duane eyesorenson of flannel wannahippies inna playground of beery goons and salt heroes. fukkm all I say.. fukkm all.
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a division vision of post apocalypse southeast.. a duane eyesorenson of zombie wannahippies repleat with surface3s tucked under their braided arm hair.. a mustachioed gentrifuge tangled in ginger thai broth and butt pucker hopped swill.. topped off with salt heroes and a gangbang wafflecone.. isnt stumpland a blast?
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Yes this, a thousand times this!

I lived on Division from 2007-2011 and loved this last bulwark of the old neighborhood.

And for those of you bitter that the view is bothering your bougie bar crawl, these theaters play an important role for a community that came of age before it was safe to be "out." Here's an incredibly readable book that sheds more light on that subject: http://www.amazon.com/Times-Square-Red-Blu…
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well I'm glad it's still there. and FYI the guy that owns it, owns the whole building. outright! the porn just pays the taxes.
and I'm glad there's a place on the east side to go when I need to play with a slut!
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2008?!? Man, I lived on Division when it was just a field. The only bar was an apple tree that I had to wait for the fruit to fall and rot into a mildly alcoholic cider. The only restaurant was my trusty steel trap that caught possums and coons (free range and organic!). Then you bastards moved in and cut down my apple tree and built this whole city and gentrified my field AND NO ONE KNOWS THAT I'M COOLER THAN ALL OF YOU.
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2008?!? Man, I lived on Division when it was just a field. The only bar was an apple tree that I had to wait for the fruit to fall and rot into a mildly alcoholic cider. The only restaurant was my trusty steel trap that caught possums and coons (free range and organic!). Then you bastards moved in and cut down my apple tree and built this whole city and gentrified my field AND NO ONE KNOWS THAT I'M COOLER THAN ALL OF YOU.
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sadly cities are not static entities, they don't stop changing, and portland is more popular then ever. its understandable that people yearn for the good old days but to be a true bohemian is akin to being a wanderer, an urban nomad. cheap and easy urban living is only that way for a short window. once the art and alternative crowd discover it, its curtains for affordability. thats just how it goes. smoke em while you gottem and buy a house and its your own party all day long.....
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TL;DR

Six-year transplant bitches about six-month transplants.
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Back in the 80's Cinemagic on Hawthorne was an adult theater as well, Vincente's Pizza was an adult bookstore.
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All you bitching bitches make me glad I don't live in Portland anymore. Man, fuck this shit.

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