http://www.kennyrogers.cc/home.php : Kenny Rogers Roasters
http://www.hancockfabrics.com/ :
http://www.shakeys.com/ : Shakeys PizzA
http://www.pietrosrestaurants.com/ : Pietros Pizza http://www.bostonmarket.com/home : Boston Market

http://www.farrellsusa.com/ : Farrells! EXCITING NEW INFO 5 YEAR COURT CASE IS OVER! SANTA CLARITA LOCATION MIGHT BE GETTING SOME SIBLINGS.

http://www.tastee-freez.com/ : Tastee-Freez
https://www.firstinterstatebank.com/ : First Interstate Bank
http://wards.com/home.jsp : Montgomery Wards
http://www.paylessdrug.com/content.asp?p=index : Payless Drugs

http://www.greenpoints.com/account/act_default.asp : S&H Green

http://www.compusa.com/
http://www.builderssquare.com/
http://www.sentrymarkets.com/index.asp
http://www.thriftwaystores.com/default.asp
http://www.ljsilvers.com/ : Long John SIlvers
http://www.bigboy.com/ : Big Boy
http://www.bobs.net/ : Bobs Big Boy
http://www.cocosbakery.com/ : Cocos

This is something I research when I am on the computer and bored. Enjoy! And happy New YEAR!

Sad to see that there aren't any more
'Boston Markets' in OR and WA -

Sign o' the Times...

The Pop Shoppe

Sprouse Reitz...anyone?

Hot N NOW
Candy Basket
Pizza Schimizza(just kidding BrianL!)

Sizzler
Plush Pippins
Grandmas Table
Earthquakes
Key Bank
Coffee People
Robertos-Ice Cream parlor
Casa Lupita
Blimpy subs
AllStar video
Rent Town USA
Mamma Illardos pizza (sp?)( Used to be in Pioneer Place food court!
Smiths- Home furnishing
Learning World
Tower Records
El Torito
HighSchool Pharmacy
Copeland Sports
Sports Mart
Artic Circle
Flakey Jakes
Best

a few I missed.
http://www.skippers.net/ : Skippers
http://www.arcticcirclerest.com/ : Arctic Circle
http://www.oregonmall.com/valley/6v0015.htm : Rentown USA Not sure if they are still open? I do remember the tv ads though! What a voiceover!

http://jimandpattys.com/home : The original "Coffee People"
http://www.coffeepeople.com/ : Diedrichs Coffee People
http://www.hi-schoolpharmacy.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_%27n_Now : There are still some but they don't appear to have a website.

Casa-U-Betcha
Macheesmo Mouse
Rubenstein's Furniture
Meier & Frank
Torrefazione Coffee
Kienow's Markets
Herfy's
Mazzi's
Zefiro
Sizzler
Incredible Universe
23rd Ave Pharmacy (w/ ice cream/soda counter)
Mark Lindsay's Rock 'n Roll Cafe
Caplan's Sporting Goods

Earthquake Ethels

mark lindsay's. hehe! still says he plans to reopen in July, on his website.
http://www.marklindsay.com/newsRRC.htm

"Earthquake Ethels"

When I turned 21 my older sister took me out for my first experience in bars/clubs. Our first stop was EE. Was exposed to a world I had never known before.

Yaw's (on 4th Plain & 500; it's been a Chinese restaurant for the last 15-20 years now......not sure if it was connected to the "original" Yaw's in Portland tho!)
Mogul Mouse (ski shoppe)
Waterbed Emporium (became Bedrooms West, I think)
Computer City
Alpha Computers
Bugg's Computer Warehouse
American Family Video (was in Camas but went out of business only last year; they used to have one on Mill PLain in the strip mall next to 137th in the 80s)
Jantzen Beach Tri-Cinemas
Silo
Winchell's Doughnuts
and its competitor Dunkin' Donuts, which seems to have disappeared from this half of the USA
AEI Music (bought out by DMX in 2002)
The Wherehouse
Jafco
The Chart House (now Joe's Crab Shack)
Luxury Cinemas (bought out by Act III in the very early 90s, if I remember right)

http://www.knhcroots.9ax.net

All I am getting from that link is bare HTML code in Firefox!




(......and I wonder, why in the hell are they using Estrangelo Edessa for their font.....?!?!?)

only works on IE browser

"Not fast food. Good food quickly at Herfy's!"

Stereo Super Store
Super Stereo Store
Stereo Superstore
Superstereo Store

Ya, One of those or all of them, I think!

The Keg

Hazel Dell Skate
Hazel Dell & Andreson Drive-Ins

"...on our way to becoming world famous."

http://www.sizzler.com/

Mazzi's still has their original location in Eugene, and Rubenstein's has a small-scale operation in Eugene as well.

Olson Electronics -- This was a chain, similar to Radio Shack. It went out of business sometime around 1983.

What was the name of that big electronics place across from "Sears"? It was the only place that had a 30" EV speaker on display.

You've got to be at least 35 and lived in the Portland-Vancouver area for at least 20 years to know what the heck I'm talking about.

They still have a dunkin' donuts in Vegas.
across the street from Binions, downtown.

Organ Grinder Pizza. How many incarnations has that building on 82nd gone through since? I was crushed when I moved back to Portland in 1997 and found it gone, when I was living there as a kid we used to ALWAYS go and it was ALWAYS packed!

Ahhh Binions!!

Good Poker Games there. And yes, a dunkin doughnuts. Fremont Street is my favorite place in Vegas. Nice, low key, outdoor concerts, and cheap eats late at night!

Brianl, me too! It's never been a success after Organ Grinder.

Yeah, Herfy's. Wasn't bad. There was also Roy Rogers Hamburger place on Sandy Blvd near 15th.

Flakey Jakes became Fuddruckers and there are still a few around, one in Tualatin......unless it disappeared in the last year.

There are still a few Sizzler places around. I think one is still on 82nd and there is one in Gresham across from the high school, next door to the Taco Bell, which is next to the now defunct Izzy's.

Fremont Street in Vegas. There is a shop about 1/2 block off Fremont called the "Jerky Place". I have never seen so much and so many varieties of Jerky in my life.

"What was the name of that big electronics place across from "Sears"?"

I can't think of the name right now, either. It had the same name as a company that made electronic kits and they carried them. It was not Heathkit. There was a Heathkit store in Vancouver next to Fred Meyer on Mill Plain and Chkalov.

Wasson's Lafayette Radio?

Hey, KQ4,
You beat me to it. I remembered as I was driving home from work and came in the house and you beat me to it.......
Even if I hadn't stayed and talked to Gary, you would have beat me to it......
Wasson's Lafayette Radio for sure.
Do you remember where it was before they moved there? They started somewhere else...

Were they a block or two to the south, on Lloyd Bvd?

Yes, Wasson's, I believe that was name. If I recall, after they closed, there was a smaller electronics place a block south of Wasson's that may have been called something else, it was about 1/4 the size. Anyone remember?

I've no clue to where Wasson's was before the Sears location. I'm not that old!

Pixieland

"Hey, KQ4, You beat me to it."

Sorry, Jimbo! Better luck next time! ;)

You have me stumped, though, on their previous location. I vaguely remember it being fairly nearby?

Did Shaklee have stores? I recall shelves full of their vitamins and health aid stuff.

Another I have totally missed. It's even in my OWN backyard.


http://thomason.com/

Thomason is still going strong here in California and, I think Texas??

In another thread I mentioned Burger Chef.

Good milkshakes if I recall, but I was 11!

Damn there was a Cajun restaurant in PDX up on the other side of 405 (west) I dont remember the name of it but their logo had a smiling alligator maitre'd. My old age and insomnia are messing with me used to go there all the time before/after Blazer games when I was kid.

Vips!

Back when Arbys had some friends

http://www.rax-raxroastbeef.com/

They used to have a Rax in the old Jantzen Beach mall. Right across from the merry go round!

(Wasn't that in the section they tore down?)

Kopper Kitchen.

There was one in the Jantzen Beach Mall -- in the section not torn down (yet!). I can still hear that green restaurant assistant manager saying "I got a stack of applications this high for your job in my office!"

They used to have a Rax on Beaverton Hillsdale HWY! They also had a Jafco which later became a "Best", which is now a Umajuwya(Sp?)

Grandma's Kitchen in Beaverton

Buttercup Corral in Hillsboro