Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Mar 2007 9:19 am |
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Well it almost made it 60 years. I've got a few to go til I do my durn self.
D(ivison) Street Corral was one of two or three huge Live Music Venues in Portland that survived several changes in music.
By the time I was old enough to drive drunk, it had become a place to see popular bands of the time, like It's a Beautiful Day, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Buddy Miles, Canned Heat, and many others.
Springers' Ballroom, and the several other venues now long gone, like the Oriental Theater next to Amato's were the places that got me my earliest memories of REAL stage shows, like Hank Snow, Billy Walker, Faron Young, and all the best of them.
Many local bands played at D Street, including Arkie and the Jolly Cowboys,Heck Harper, who broadcast his live music show from there, and the West Coast Ramblers, who had Ray Montee playing his 4 neck Bigsby as well as Evelyn Kinnee on Steel. Quite a dish I might add... (Evelyn..) Check out the pix!
Anyhow, the building served for local bands to rent and try to make it pay, which in my time, it never seemed to, and the dance floor eventually got spray painted to mark off flea market spaces.
Yesterday as I drove by it in my truck, hauling some equipment, I saw it being torn down.
It's gone.
That's about all all I can say about it.
Sometimes I feel like I'm at the "hosting flea markets" stage myself with dental x-ray holders marking off the high priced spaces..
EJL |
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