House on Fremont street, for sale by owner. The lot next door has recently been cleared of its former house.
I did a triple take when looking at the price. $1,375,000 about $458,000 per lot. I mean, it’s Fremont Street, but it seems high to me.
Month: July 2015
Cool beer display.
Why not turn that vintage Westinghouse refrigerator into a fabulous beer display case?
(I’m subtracting points for refrigerated air constantly escaping the display case, but giving so many more bonus points for how it looks.)
I had to peek inside the butter keeper.
At the Beaumont Market.
Postcards from Minneapolis
It’s quite nice to get “thank you for visiting” postcard from the people who so generously hosted me.
Three sentence movie reviews: Walking and Talking
“Is that Liev?”* I asked myself while perusing movies at the library. It wasn’t until I got home that I noticed this was a Nicole Holofcener film. which I find to be a bonus. If you were in your 20s or early 30s in the 1990s, this movie is a great time capsule of that time, packaged with the typical Holofcener touch.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home
*It was! He’s so young. And so are the other two. I didn’t even recognize Catherine Keener.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1996/walking_and_talking_ver1.html
Preleasing for August what, exactly?
There are no sidewalks, the other side of the building isn’t completed, the exterior still hasn’t been fully painted, but you are telling me you are preleasing? I can’t imagine things are finished inside.
The real estate marketing people are eternally optimistic.
I go away for a week and a house is *poof* gone!
It’s not unusual for houses to disappear, but this one was not for sale, and the last time I saw it, people were living there. And not the type of living where you disappear in the middle of the night, but where you have an entire carport full of stuff with a flapping tarp hanging down to make a sort of door.
The house wasn’t in great shape, but it wasn’t falling down. Not that the state of the house makes any difference as to its fate.
This is a smaller lot, so it was fence, house, bit of a front yard. They had tall fir trees with empty bird feeders.
They had barky dogs that would often run past the fir trees to the fence.
According to Portland Maps (link at the top of the post) Royal Custom Homes Inc owns the lot/house as of 5/4/15 with a recorded sale price of $262,000. The home was built in 1946.
Here’s a photo I grabbed. We shall see what comes next.
photo from: http://www.sunriverrealty.com/s/or/multnomah-county/portland/97217/1807-n-kilpatrick-st/dmgid_95719376.html
What will appear here?
This shot was taken from the alley (and I can no longer remember why I was walking down the alley) instead of the street. I’m intrigued though. It’s where a blue house used to sit. I took a picture of it a few months ago and good thing, because it’s gone, baby. Gone. But what are they building here? Two skinny houses with a shared driveway? That was my initial thought, but I’ve been by since I took this photo and seen six water shut-off boxes. So maybe this will be six separate units?
Three sentence movie reviews: The Art of the Steal
While new actors are fun to discover, there’s something to be said of watching a film made with industry veterans.* This is a heist movie and also a family dynamics movie and it has some very funny scenes.** Overall, this is a very good investment of 90 minutes of your time.
Cost: free from library (recommended by Jan)
Where watched: at home
*Russell, Dillon, Kenneth Welch, Terrance Stamp have over 400 acting credits between them. The rest of the cast brings their A-game too.
**Jay Baruchel at the border was hilarious
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/intl/canada/2013/art_of_the_steal.html
Three Sentence Movie Reviews: Magic Mike XXL
My expectations were low going in and indeed, this is a long, slow movie broken up with some good dancing now and then. Characters from the earlier film* are fleshed out** and there is a merry-go-round full of cameos and other supporting roles. What could have been the romantic subplot is oddly subverted and only half developed and thus, this movie just becomes a very long wait for the next striptease.***
Cost: $5.00
Where watched: Regal City Center 12 with Christi.
*Interestingly, though the character of Matthew McConaughey’s Dallas is explained away, there seems to be no mention of Alex Pettyfar’s Adam, even though he was the main supporting actor in Magic Mike.
**Hah! By which I mean their personalities are more fully developed as we’ve already seen most of their flesh
***I look forward to coming across the DVD at the library in future years so I can just get to the dancing.
posters from: http://www.impawards.com/2015/magic_mike_xxl.html
(best comment: We all know what the focal point is on this poster… Channing Tatum’s manatee-faced torso)
http://www.impawards.com/2015/magic_mike_xxl_ver2.html
(the second one is a little more subtle)
Three Sentence Movie Reviews: Beverly Hills Cop
Just as I always fall prey to Vince Vaughn’s talky-talky thing, so did I enjoy Eddie Murphy’s chamelon-like trove of characters to get himself out of all sorts of situations. Though I will never understand the early 80s fascination of Judge Reinhold, both he and John Ashton were perfect foils to Murphy’s color-outside-the-lines brand of detective work.* This movie also has bit parts with Paul Reiser and I was delighted to find a pre-Balki Bronson Pinchot who cracked me up with his portrayal of Serge, an Associate Art Director at a gallery.
*This movie also includes two 80s movie staples: boobs (in the strip bar) and a lot of ridiculous shooting of guns that totally wouldn’t happen in real life.
Cost: free from library. I think I ended up requesting this because I was really going after Beverly Hills 90210 season 1, and this came up in the search results and I realized I’d not seen it.
Where watched: at home.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1984/beverly_hills_cop.html