Portland Style, Late Aughts
[Updated!]
When you look at pictures of people in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s, you see fashion half way between logger and hippie. You might also see Volkswagens or pick-ups. Thirty-five years from now, when people look for iconic pictures of our era, they could do worse than the one I snapped this afternoon, annotated for posterity (click to enlarge):
- Rainy pavement (some things never change).
- Horse hitching rings, suggestive of transportation circa 1900.
- Bicycle, suggestive of transportation 2010.
- Prius, the VW bug of 2010.
- Fashionable cyclist, with accoutrement (keys on carabiner, shoulder bag, pocket lock, shorts in late October, tattoo).
- [Per insightful comments, blended] "Telephone pole with 11 million staples and the fragments of every local band flyer for the last 25 years of hardcore bands playing shows for no money at Satyricon."