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This would be a cool story of me going the extra mile or 3 for a shot, but it turned out I was dumb. Okay, not dumb, just lacking info. The only high quality shot of The Martini I'd seen was taken from a high rise condo, so I thought it wasn't easily visible from downtown Portland. Since I couldn't get a location online I walked into the hills for hours, steep wet roads. I did find the house!

The Martini being lit up has been a sign of the impending holiday season in Portland since the 60s or 70s, the articles I've ready vary.

But right below the house is a terrible vantage point, and I got rain on my lens:


Actually, I kinda like the shot? Anyway, as I made my way back down to the flat bit of Portland with mass transit I was looking for better vantage points... and I realized that it's easily visible from a few blocks just south of PSU.



But, I walked some sections of Portland I don't normally walk and found this house clearly owned by vampires:

And here I'm writing vampires in Portland being dug into Alameda Ridge when they are clearly in the West Hills.

Date: 2024-12-17 07:22 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] dine
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it's not the holiday season until the martini glass appears! I'd always heard the 60s, but I can see the 70s as just as likely

why not vampires in both the West Hills *and* Alameda?

Date: 2024-12-20 06:31 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] mistressofmuses
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I like the shot of it from below!

And the more distant one with the motel sign - having both neon signs (plus the blue Xmas lights) looks really cool.

That is obviously vampires.

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