The Re-Erection
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darkemeraldsAs a prelude to our theatergoing experience last night, my sis and I had a little dinner at Ping, a new Chinese-fusion place in what was once Portland's thriving Chinatown, but from which almost all the Chinese restaurants and businesses have, sadly, fled.
One of the waiters at Ping wore an eyecatching T-shirt with a vertical...something on it and the prominent phrase "RE-ERECT".
Turns out that there's a campaign to restore and re-install the colorful and utterly tee-hee inducing, 40-foot high sign from one of the old-style Chinese restaurants that, honest-to-god, was a fixture in the Chinatown of my youth:
I wish they wouldn't undo that black spraypaint fillip there at the bottom, but I suppose they'll have to.
I don't know for sure, but it probably doesn't hurt that Old Town/Chinatown is, to some degree, Gay Entertainment Town these days. But anyway, the campaign to restore the sign seems to be succeeding.
And that is a very good thing.
One of the waiters at Ping wore an eyecatching T-shirt with a vertical...something on it and the prominent phrase "RE-ERECT".
Turns out that there's a campaign to restore and re-install the colorful and utterly tee-hee inducing, 40-foot high sign from one of the old-style Chinese restaurants that, honest-to-god, was a fixture in the Chinatown of my youth:
I wish they wouldn't undo that black spraypaint fillip there at the bottom, but I suppose they'll have to.
I don't know for sure, but it probably doesn't hurt that Old Town/Chinatown is, to some degree, Gay Entertainment Town these days. But anyway, the campaign to restore the sign seems to be succeeding.
And that is a very good thing.