Not even a linchpin
Up on Council Crest, the hoi polloi have a new neighbor.
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Comments (13)
All it needs is an aerial tram.
Posted by Allan L. | May 29, 2009 5:11 PM
Why do so many people in Portland think everything built needs to be "artistic" which almost always costs way more. Just build something that is cost effective and safe!
Posted by WestsideGuy | May 29, 2009 7:15 PM
Jack,
Better break out the dictionary - Hoi polloi?
Posted by T | May 29, 2009 7:16 PM
how do you "beautify" a radio tower?
Posted by Anthony | May 29, 2009 9:09 PM
how do you "beautify" a radio tower?
http://www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/
Posted by Allan L. | May 29, 2009 9:20 PM
Beauty - perhaps - but at least they can charge 5 Euros per visitor!
Posted by john rettig | May 29, 2009 10:26 PM
Let's consider the source of the complaint about the tower. The same fellow who brings us this:
http://theredelectric.blogspot.com/2008/11/civil-war-metaphor-beyond-pale.html
Personally, after 50+ plus years, I still enjoy seeing the relative distances between the Council Crest tower and the Healy Heights towers and the Barnes Road towers from various points throughout the region. Always comforting when "coming home" to see them on the horizon. Some people just like to whine a lot.
Posted by PDX Native | May 29, 2009 10:45 PM
The hoi polloi--as in the common people? In Council Crest?
Posted by SP | May 29, 2009 11:38 PM
The royalty is in Dunthorpe, people.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 30, 2009 2:31 AM
The Stuttgart Tower is more than a radio tower. I'm sure the environmentalist, Healy Heights, Council Crest neighbors would love a large parking lot, the traffic, and all the other commotion like Stuttgart's. I guess we could continue commercializing our parks like Jack notes about Portland's Waterfront Park. Heck, stick a Rose on top of the tower to make it beautiful.
Posted by lw | May 30, 2009 2:53 PM
Perhaps we should turn back the clock and return an amusement park to the top of Council Crest, with streetcars to ferry the hoi polloi to it.
Posted by PMG | May 30, 2009 5:50 PM
PMG has a pretty good idea. The view was a lot better then.
Posted by PDX Native | May 30, 2009 7:21 PM
PMG, I had the same thought. Herewith, more:
http://pdxhistory.com/html/council_crest.html
Posted by NW Portlander | May 31, 2009 10:49 AM