July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Stop and appreciated downtown beauty (12/23/06)
Letter to the Editor
To the editor:
I challenge each and every one of you to do just once what I do five or six days a week, and that is to drive through downtown Portland in the middle of the night. You can drive slowly without major traffic and view our town to the east and west without disruption.
The icing on the cake in writing this letter came this morning (Friday) when I noticed the new lights (shall we call them marquee) on the Weiler Building entrance off Meridian Street. How utterly awesome with the new doors and the new windows. It is not the Christmas Weiler Building of my youth, but very nice to see this building come to life again.
You will really be able to see the store windows decorated for the holidays.
I always enjoy looking at them, but especially during this season of the year. And our beautiful Christmas tree decorations on our old-fashioned poles all lit up in holiday fashion.
All this time I felt the downtown area of my youth was gone, never to return. And it is.
Both Jack Ronald and Ron Cole have reminisced about this in recent columns, and since we are all from the Portland High School class of 1966, we are remembering the same downtown. But we now must open our eyes to what it has become. Sure, most of those stores are gone and now, unfortunately, so is Hunt's Emporium. But we still have a downtown, alas different, to be proud of.
If you would take this drive during the night and look at our town from the standpoint of all the strangers that pass through you would be so proud. Beginning at the south end with our lighted concrete bridge and shortly thereafter passing Freedom Park to Richards Restaurant on the north end, just go slow and enjoy the show. I guarantee you that you will not be disappointed.
We take too much of this for granted in our everyday busy lives racing down Meridian Street to get to work, school, play or whatever.
And if you enjoy this trip as I do please take the time to convey your thoughts to the local Chamber of Commerce/local store owners-operators.
I hope I just did.
Melodi Haley
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
I challenge each and every one of you to do just once what I do five or six days a week, and that is to drive through downtown Portland in the middle of the night. You can drive slowly without major traffic and view our town to the east and west without disruption.
The icing on the cake in writing this letter came this morning (Friday) when I noticed the new lights (shall we call them marquee) on the Weiler Building entrance off Meridian Street. How utterly awesome with the new doors and the new windows. It is not the Christmas Weiler Building of my youth, but very nice to see this building come to life again.
You will really be able to see the store windows decorated for the holidays.
I always enjoy looking at them, but especially during this season of the year. And our beautiful Christmas tree decorations on our old-fashioned poles all lit up in holiday fashion.
All this time I felt the downtown area of my youth was gone, never to return. And it is.
Both Jack Ronald and Ron Cole have reminisced about this in recent columns, and since we are all from the Portland High School class of 1966, we are remembering the same downtown. But we now must open our eyes to what it has become. Sure, most of those stores are gone and now, unfortunately, so is Hunt's Emporium. But we still have a downtown, alas different, to be proud of.
If you would take this drive during the night and look at our town from the standpoint of all the strangers that pass through you would be so proud. Beginning at the south end with our lighted concrete bridge and shortly thereafter passing Freedom Park to Richards Restaurant on the north end, just go slow and enjoy the show. I guarantee you that you will not be disappointed.
We take too much of this for granted in our everyday busy lives racing down Meridian Street to get to work, school, play or whatever.
And if you enjoy this trip as I do please take the time to convey your thoughts to the local Chamber of Commerce/local store owners-operators.
I hope I just did.
Melodi Haley
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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