- Buy that creepy jacket!
We have something to thank the Oregonian for today: Bringing to my attention that Bud Clark is auction off his estate. TODAY! RIGHT NOW! This is the most exciting thing I have heard since that one time the state auctioned off a bunch of stolen goods. No, this is more exciting that even that.
Bud Clark was Portland’s most awesome mayor. He kayaked to the opening of the Portland Building. He rode a bike and didn’t make a big deal out of it. He exposed himself to art. He retired to run a bar, y’all! And that bar is pretty good!
And now, for one day only, you can go buy a house full of Bud Clark memorabilia. Janie Har’s article at the O lists items for sale including:
• The coat Bud wore in the famous “Expose Yourself to Art” poster
• A square grand piano
• A teddy bear, pinned with ribbon from Gresham’s annual Teddy Bear Parade
• Children’s chairs and beds
• An Underwood typewriter used by Bud Clark
• Campaign buttons
• A Bambi lampshade
You can go bid on the items until 4:30 p.m. at 2522 N.W. Northrup St. I am going to show up last and buy all the typewriters and campaign buttons.
It’s odd to see you write approvingly of not making a big deal out of riding bikes.
CC,
I think it’s cool that he rode a bike because he wanted to and had fun with it, not because he was a politician and it was a smart political move.
I’m not sure making a big deal out of biking to work would have been considered a smart political move in Portland (or most other places) in 1990.
What bar? Is it still extant?
Bud Clark’s bar is the Goose Hollow Inn & it’s @ 1927 Southwest Jefferson Street. I think he’s still the owner.
Bud still hangs out at the Goose a lot, though I believe his kids run it now. You should drop by for a reuben and a brew for lunch sometime, and buy the old guy a Coke.
And he ran the freaking tavern before his first term as mayor — so it seems a little bizarre to suggest that he “retired to run a bar, y’all.”