THAT RANDOM PLACE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS

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Hey everyone! Just an extra little side project here while I'm busy working on some longer, more time consuming projects. A chance to put something out while thanking you all for my channel's more recent success.
In this video I discuss a place that has fascinated me since I was old enough to collect and keep memories. Every time my parents drove by it I had to stare in awe, and I got angry if I missed the chance to view it. And what's so interesting is that the place is hardly remarkable and yet it's captured the attention of many in the Portland area. There's lots of possible reasons for that and everyone has their own reason but I get the feeling it's garnered so much attention for more than one reason but rather a collection of them.
And I found a little history about the place, granted there isn't a whole lot out there so it is left to some mystery. While discussing this location and its little bit of history I also paid the place a visit (at least the best I could).
Enjoy!

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9 сен 2024

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@mkbas1422 2 месяца назад

I know about that building….in the 70’s it was Simpson Lumber. My father in law was the night watchman. They made lumber products. It’s funny it hasn’t been torn down by now. I enjoy your channel. Born and raised in Portland….

@StevetheAmateurHistorian 2 месяца назад

That’s so cool, with its placement I could see an interesting thing or two happening working security at that place.

@cliffwright9842 Месяц назад

Tom Black's garage back in the '70's was a unique specialty shop. They did pop-up sunroofs and aftermarket t-tops on Firebirds, Camaros and some g-body cars. I went there because I was told he could sell me just the butyl gasket for a LeVan sunroof. He had an older Eldorado coupe, and he was making a convertible out of it. He did have that gasket! It seemed weird at the time being so close to the Banfield Fwy.

@Rderiley 2 месяца назад

Dude! this is so EXTREMELY RELATEABLE, Im 30 y/o born in 1993, I grew up in Portland, I had my eyes out the window of my parents car as we would drive around town doing whatever we were doing, So many mystery buildings in Portland! i Miss PDX Keep up the good work Steve! I love your narration and way of presenting our videos, STEVE FOR PRESIDENT!

@CertifiedSkank 2 месяца назад

It’s really weird that both of us have been intrigued by that exact same building for 40 years.

@gedgar Месяц назад

also been fascinated by it my whole life!

@jsteezy80 10 дней назад

I think its pretty much any kid whos parents drove I-84 often. Then when I went to Benson I saw it daily commuting to school

@CertifiedSkank 9 дней назад

@@jsteezy80 I used to skip school in Aloha to go visit my Benson friends.

@LesStephens-xe6qp 2 месяца назад

I've known that building for years. From 1960 to 1963 I had a paper route in the neighborhood to north side. Ive crossed the 28th st bridge many a time. That building has always puzzled me. It seemed out of place. Thank you for your videos. Great job.

@KLEARSKITHEKREEPER 2 месяца назад

There was a lumber yard there ...The Graff World loves that spot..especially back in day ..the giant Marvin the Martain and RIP BORE were my favs! Great video Steve

@StevetheAmateurHistorian 2 месяца назад

I wish I had a better memory of what I saw as a little kid cause we passed it so much but I just gave this general recollection on what it looked like mostly back in the 90s.

@CertifiedSkank 2 месяца назад

I haven’t thought about that Marvin painting for so long….

@jonathanhatch8239 2 месяца назад

Back in the 70s, my brother and I along with many friends used to sneak in there. It still had all the looms and knitting stuff. Every time I pass on 84 I think about that and am amazed that is still standing.

@duanedragon2 2 месяца назад

You need a drone. Even a DJI Pro 3 would create some incredible footage. Love your channel. Thank you for this video.

@JDiaz-vm2wm 2 месяца назад

I appreciate your work and history on the city man!! I worked at Gordon’s fireplace shop for 5 years back from 09’-13’ - so sad to see its current state all abandoned and tagged up 😭 as a local native born and raised in PDX I look forward to your videos!! Keep it up man! 👍🏽

@chancemontgomery157 2 месяца назад

Enjoy watching your videos, fellow portlandian for 2 years and learning the cities history is great! keep up the great videos!!

@GenuineSalami 2 месяца назад

Another great video Steve! Keep up the great work :)

@pointofthisbeing 2 месяца назад

Hah! I guessed right. Moved here 11 years ago; same experience. Thank ya, my friend.

@mateovncnt7411 Месяц назад

my first place was on multonmuh and my first experience was walking down there

@jsteezy80 10 дней назад

8:57 Someone knew you were coming so they tagged your name. That was so nice of them

@artbyty 2 месяца назад

I always remember that building as a kid going along that freeway everyday. The homeless camp you referenced was also an interesting thing to look at driving by.

@BlueDragonArt 4 дня назад

I was curious about that building! Thanks for sharing this information. Always fascinated by older buildings. I see this one when I'm on 84 or the Tri-Met. Always curious what it held. Every building has its yarn to tell ;) "Digging for gold in my neighborhood, for what they say is the greater good, but all I see is a long goodbye: a requiem for the skyline. It seems I never stop losing you, as all the dives become something new. And all our ghosts get swept away. It didn't used to be this way." (edit was for grammar)

@ChristinaClark-pv9kd 2 месяца назад

Love your work🌹Awesome, as always 👍

@SisterSherryDoingStuff 2 месяца назад

I've always wondered about that place as well. I see a newer car 18:05 parked there - security?

@StevetheAmateurHistorian 2 месяца назад

Yeah it’s crazy, I swear I’ve never seen anyone there and as I was filming that vehicle pulled in and parked.

@msmoe8687 2 месяца назад

I really enjoy what you do, I really enjoy seeing our area through your eyes.👍

@StevetheAmateurHistorian 2 месяца назад

Thanks 👍

@scottmiller1180 Месяц назад

To all of you that hung out there, it has not been torn down as the ground and surrounding property is classified as a contaminated hazard that nobody wants to pay to clean up. They used to make doors and other furniture there. I went there on a field trip.

@lisad476 2 месяца назад

I saw an urban explorer go in there years ago..Michael Anderson it was a giant storage area for like RVs and boats ect when he sneaked in...big big inside 2 levels

@Mephistopholies 2 месяца назад

I been at sea almost 2 years fishing. I miss portland; good stuff dude! When I was a kid I thought it was someone hiding Noah's ARK...

@DJ-bq8ng 2 месяца назад

I was thinking “I know that building…” and I did! Profound I know

@emeraldazakite 2 месяца назад

Ive lived here in Portland off and on since 1980. That building always got my attention going past it. When i was younger i dreamt of climbing on the roof and looking out over the highway.

@gedgar Месяц назад

I go down there to hang out sometimes. First time i went down there i was an alcoholic highschooler who tried to walk down through the neighbors yard holding an open can of wine (didnt even know it was illegal to drink in public)

@ec9833 2 месяца назад

I used to live in Portland…probably the city & metro area I’ve most lived in throughout my life…was COMPLETELY over the city/metro area by the time we left it. Zero interest in going back…but your videos are so freaking pleasant and nostalgic and almost even comforting. Just another reason why I don’t have to go back LOL. I’ll just watch one of your videos as they pop up and that’ll do it. 😌✌🏽

@jsteezy80 10 дней назад

I'm born and raised and I felt the same way living near downtown before moving out to Beaverton. But the city gets a bad rap and it sucks but It's nowhere near as bad as people think. Seattle is 10x worse but it wasn't in the news for political reasons

@ec9833 9 дней назад

@@jsteezy80 I agree with all of that.

@sinope_ 2 месяца назад

I always wondered about this place!

@garykennedy1707 2 месяца назад

I live right behind there and go up there to smoke all the time

@garykennedy1707 2 месяца назад

When you go on top of it, there is indeed an alarm sometimes

@mateovncnt7411 Месяц назад

my first apartment was on that block multnomuh and i would go hang out down there.

@jordanriver6346 2 месяца назад

Core memories unlocked

@PirateStyle2013 2 месяца назад

I used to get excited to look at the building too. Since the 80s

@itowedin 2 месяца назад

I had the same curiosities and feelings about the Gasco building near the St Johns bridge and the abandon tannery on the bank of the Willamette near PSU campus.

@OhItsThat 2 месяца назад

Back in the early 90s I used to sneak on that property to smoke weed and practice graffiti with my dudes. One time we saw an opening so we went in. I remember a few emergency lights being on and the floors feeling like a springboard. We made it pretty deep into the building walking slowly and carefully out of fear of falling through the floor. All we saw was tons of yarn. Huge boxes on pallets full of yarn. Eventually we made it to the loading dock area and noticed a ADT alarm panel blinking red. We ran like mad for the sketchy exit we came in through. Zero Fs given about falling through the floor at that point. By the time we got out the police were already coming down the driveway from the street above. We made a dash for the train tracks below. Followed the tracks to 28th and went through the tunnel. Walked up to Sandy Blvd and hit Wendy’s for some chili. After talking to my Uncle who ran around Sullivan's Gulch as a kid in the 50s. He said that area had a lot of textile and garment factories.

@EnlistedBombin 2 месяца назад

Dang WESH tag on the wall at 3:25 hes a seattle guy they are all over here.

@timc7037 2 месяца назад

Once again, I have questions Steve has answers, I always assumed it was part of property with Mini storage. TeMini storage building is the one I usually look at since it was clearly a factory, a very interesting convert.

@hdoglesby 2 месяца назад

My (now ex) wife and I lived in a duplex on Pacific Street around 2002/2003. Just a few hundred feet from the old Pepsi plant. The back yard had a 6ft cinder block wall that I could climb on top of and make my way to the second story, east facing windows of the Tom Black's Garage building. It had the wooden frame windows with the leaded glass. Anyway, I looked inside this room on the second floor and there were a few dozen motorcycles in there. I wanted to go inside but I also wanted to be respectful. We ended up buying a house in Rose City Park and I never got a chance to do any more exploring in that neighborhood.

@beautifulmelancholy3883 2 месяца назад

I lived in Sullivan's Gulch from September 1995 to March 2003. We owned the house on 2331 N.E. Wielder Street. I walked the whole of this neighborhood and often wondered what that building was Who chinese. I sure due miss Portland.

@patrickstclair3253 2 месяца назад

This building may have been part of the Doernbecher furniture company.

@triciacherise8084 2 месяца назад

I love your storytelling… ❤ new sub😎

@jsteezy80 10 дней назад

Haven't watched yet but just based on the thumbnail you may be referencing the building off of I-84 that always gets tagged up. I went to Benson and I heard (this was a few years ago) that it's being used for storing RV's and boats and such now. Idk what it was before and I hope you say in the video

@Threetails 2 месяца назад

Always wondered about that place. I usually see it from the Max.

@Mr.LT1 2 месяца назад

ive explored the outside of that building in my young days, good times.

@BB-rt9nc 2 месяца назад

0:27 Oregon theater

@mikeinportland30 2 месяца назад

I'm guessing many of the old structures being torn down are because the seismic retrofitting that would be required for many uses would cost more than new construction - like that great old fire station torn down not long ago where the Green Line exits the bridge into Oldtown in the turn. I wonder if this place has a "U" sign at the unseen front?

@GenuineSalami 2 месяца назад

what is the purpose of the 'U' sign?

@mikeinportland30 2 месяца назад

@@GenuineSalami"Unsafe" to enter per the city.

@GenuineSalami 2 месяца назад

@@mikeinportland30 thanks!

@gregoryhagen8801 29 дней назад

That fire station was not torn down. It was stolen by junkies.

@gerardo8av 2 месяца назад

You should go to the main entrance and request permission to visit it

@Madkalibyr 2 месяца назад

Great video !

@RockyDylanBebb 2 месяца назад

I thought you were going to say the recycling center building off 205 right after the i84 exit going north, maybe the Lombard exit? The roof looks like an upside down claw machine and it terrified me looking at it as a kid 🤣 thing is still there to this day

@AnthonyChinaski 2 месяца назад

I stopped there to take a leak a few years ago and noticed it had been used as a latrine by more than just me if you know what I mean

@shawnwood8237 23 дня назад

I heard there were many raves there

@allialias 2 месяца назад

And than Lady sniffed a flower. And than we walked to the corner. And than we turned right. And rhan...

@intellectually_lazy 2 месяца назад

timber plant? i thought we call those trees

@candybabel6289 Месяц назад

You should get a drone!!!

@ababababaababbba 2 месяца назад

1500 Market St is the san francisco version

@ababababaababbba 2 месяца назад

also Pasquale’s Tower

@Azazel2024 2 месяца назад

Used to live in that neighborhood and it wasn't also that way. It got that way when Portland went insane left

@summerfire4775 2 месяца назад

I found the dumb comment blaming the democrats 🤣 (Eff both republicans and dems)

@jsteezy80 10 дней назад

The building being tagged up? It's been that way since probably the 80's and is constantly getting tagged over. The ironic thing is the neighborhoods north of the gulch are insanely nice reno's of old PDX homes and go for million(s)

@brewer8four 2 месяца назад

Ok so I thought this was where the foot clan hung out from ninja turtles I tell my kids this today.

@gitchy42 Месяц назад

I think part of the allure is that almost every other building along that part of I84 is newer, or has a building/company name on it, or its purpose is clear. But that building's old, it's not clear what happened there, and (as far as I remember) there's never been a visible company name. It's a mystery, and mysteries are intriguing.

@victoriaspears2795 2 месяца назад

Is it bodies or yarn? The world will never know.

@Firecracker66 2 месяца назад

Enjoyable video

@SlightlySalty584 2 месяца назад

It’s interesting but you really should do more research because it be very simple to find out what was in that building it was a lumberyard straightforward lumber you could’ve found that out by doing simple reading also you can get closer to it I appreciate you don’t want to trespass but apparently it’s been trespassed a lotmore research before video you could’ve had the answer to what it was before you even started