The same thing has happened to a couple of classic bungalows down here in the Westmoreland neighborhood - a backhoe basically shows up one morning to trash a structure, then the splinters and debris are hauled off. Next thing you know... presto! a new, bigger, greener structure that costs 3x the old one!

Magic!

For a friggen light rail line that nobody wants and that nobody needs.

Don't get me started, Jack. Tomorrow I'm going to go someplace real sunny for a few days, and when I get back it'll just be another fond memory of the Good Portland where the Candlelight once stood.

In this case, they're messing with the blues, and those folks have someserious mojo. High John the Conqueror-type stuff.

I took a girl for dinner there once and tried to order wine before I was 21. Sweet memories.

That's ugly. What a shame.

Too sad for words. That place added more to Portland than 10 condo towers.

Redo and redo, until we lose all character of our city and neighborhoods and morph into the character the city envisions for all of us. While they are at it, the attempt is also being made to redo the behavior of the population.
Some grand experiment!!

Many happy memories....
Every place now pretty much looks like every other place. It is not just Portland. The mega retailers, and fast food joints have taken over the world. If you resist you are crushed! And society is told that this is for our safety and security; if everything is the same then we don't need to know much or make decisions about anything except, "would you like fies with that?", or "double shot?".
Bread and circuses people....will we awake from our slumber before all our inalienable rights are taken away and the CCTV is in our bathrooms monitoring our bowels?

"Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr094.htm

Different versions of little boxes, now bunker units.

The intrusions are coming from all arenas. I got literature recently about New Preventive Services on health and one new service is Annual screening for depression.

Irony is that the lunatics in charge of decisions may very well be causing people to be depressed in the first place.

Of course everyone is wired differently, for myself, I do not hide and hope, I want to know what is happening, even if not to my liking.

I keep writing and being active, better than laying back wringing hands and getting depressed.

Living near WashCo border in SW PDX, there are a number of dining options - on Barbur, there's a Japanese place in the former IHoP, across the street is a Thai Orchid, and down the road, a sort of Chinese joint. On Capitol, a couple of other Asian spots.

Being that yesterday was my Bride's birthday, and as she likes excellent Thai food, we went down the hill to Kamikaze Korners, where Oleson Road, Scholls Ferry, Beaverton-Hillsdale, and three other roads all come together in a smash-happy mix.

There, one finds Thai Roses - and you'd never know that it used to be an Arctic Circle fast-food joint. Over the years, they've spent untold thousands on plantings and redesign; creating an authentic Thai atmosphere.

And the food is consistently, authentically, Thai; arguably the best in the area.

It's nice to see the old AC repurposed to such high standards - and without the "benefit" of urban renewal, light rail, or "planners". It can be done, but Metro, Tri-Met, and CoPo don't know how.

It hurt to see that sign being torn up. I am surprised someone didn't want to remove it to save it. I know some who like to collect signs.
Wonder if they had advance notice that it was being destroyed?
It would have been a nice sign to have for a candlelight dinner. I can imagine it in several locations, backyard, loft, or another eating establishment outdoor or banquet room, etc. There are farms that have space that feature special dinners. Sorry for the loss.

The powers that be must be calling this sustainable demolition before hauling the now unusable refuse off to the dump. How GREEEEEEN it is NOT! So be it the hypocrites.

come onnnnn, stupid civic fathers, NOT the CANdlelight ?!

Being an old hand in the curse craft, after all I was first to invoke Tecumseh's Curse,
I guarantee that when our coven sees something like the Candlelight desecration,
we GAAFT! (got an app for that)

Another small business gone, that won't be replaced - here, because the former owners would choose to build outside the Portland City Limits, IF they were to re-open, ever.

Looks like the work of a modern day Robert Moses - this time wrapped in a green suit. Destroy those neighborhoods in the name of progress and transportation.

Please. The Candlelight had devolved into a shell of what it represented 15 years go. It was by and large a cougar den by its downfall, not a house of blues and soul. A shell of its former self.

Now the Virginia Cafe was the real deal, right up to the end.

If any if you Boggies walk the Bogwalk for real, make sure you grab a beer or whiskey in the Low Brow next time you're in the Pearl. That bar is defying the odds.