{"id":3362,"date":"2009-09-06T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2009-09-06T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T16:39:12","slug":"oregon-city-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/oregon-city-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon City or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3892586931\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3528\/3892586931_2653c1bcf6.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"468\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went to Oregon City yesterday. It&#8217;s just 10 miles from our house. It&#8217;s a small historic town with lots of used book stores, used bicycle stores, bars, and pawn shops. We got a brochure: 150 things to do in Oregon City. Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a tan at a tanning salon<\/li>\n<li>Eat authentic Mexican food<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate National Library week!<\/li>\n<li>Get a tatoo<\/li>\n<li>Relax and have a cup of coffee<\/li>\n<li>Check out the new Oregon City banners throughout town<\/li>\n<li>Miniature Schnauzer Dog Show<\/li>\n<li>Attend church services<\/li>\n<li>Visit Oregon City&#8217;s oldest furniture store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But in all fairness, we had a great time. We ate at Biscuits cafe, which was pretty good, and we had the best score at the Goodwill. We got some crazy good vinyl, Carpenters, Christopher Cross (The first &#8216;adult contemporary&#8217; album I ever bought), ABBA. I also found a very strange beverage dispenser in the shape of a campfire. We went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicoregoncity.org\/HOC\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=category&#038;id=75&#038;Itemid=80\/\">End of the Orgeon Trail Interpretive center<\/a> where we heard a nice talk about early photography. I had never heard of Mourning pictures before. Because infant mortality was so high, and because photographs were so expensive, sometimes the only time a photo of a child was taken was after they had died. They had a few examples. The photos were beautiful and moving. We also saw a funny movie about immigrants coming to Oregon along the Oregon Trail. The theatre had props and multiple projections and I was impressed with the amount of love and care that had been put into the museum. Here are some pics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3892581097\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3479\/3892581097_3b46ca533f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSilhouettes were the pour man&#8217;s photograph. And Kara Walker&#8217;s source of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3893369208\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3534\/3893369208_e9667bbbdf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the Museum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3892580761\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2574\/3892580761_6f77ed381d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom inside the shack. Looks like a shot from Swoon&#8217;s installation &#8220;Feral&#8221; at the Luggage Gallery last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3893368826\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3532\/3893368826_ea06b78134.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA painting of Mt Hood that totally reminds me of an artist in one of the SF 49 Geary Galleries. Does anyone know who I&#8217;m talking about?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3893368748\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2668\/3893368748_f405dbea59.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe four buildings have wagon-like bars going around them to make it look like a wagon train.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3893368650\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2618\/3893368650_343752ec2f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOutdoor theatre<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3892580357\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2596\/3892580357_cb44496bd7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhere we heard our photography talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3893369072\/\" title=\"End of the Oregon Trail by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3483\/3893369072_509ce44a12.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"End of the Oregon Trail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Oregon City yesterday. It&#8217;s just 10 miles from our house. It&#8217;s a small historic town with lots of used book stores, used bicycle stores, bars, and pawn shops. We got a brochure: 150 things to do in Oregon City. Some of my favorites: Get a tan at a tanning salon Eat authentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}