Office by Alex Penny
if the heart is wild, no fence will keep you
23. Portland Native. Tanzania Bound. Tattoo Lover. Jesus Follower. Believer in the Seamless Garment. World Citizen. Teacher. Bibliophile. Whimsical. Wild at Heart. HIV/AIDS Activist. Egalitarian. Feminist. Dreamer. Karaoke Queen. Writer. Constantly Changing.
Things I love (& tend to post): world maps, tattoos, trees, bird imagery, RENT, history from multiple perspectives, celebrating cultures, mason jars, owls, roller derby, quotes, nature
Salmon Street fountain (by Matt Abinante)
(by misterladybug)
The Orange Juice Family (by misterladybug)
I have such stair envy right now.
ʇsɹıɟ ʎʇǝɟɐs (by misterladybug)
portland / house / color (by youngna)
Classic Portland home (by misterladybug)
I love that we can say, “Wanna go for a drive?” and that means taking a two hour drive around Mt. Hood.
Back to the bridge, 120 seconds by Zeb Andrews on Flickr.
via mtnclimb007
Last Thursday Alberta (by David Mark Erickson)
(by Zeb Andrews)
The Ferris Wheel was first built by an innovative chap named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., who must have decided early on that with a name like that he was destined to do something spectacular. His Ferris wheel was over 260 feet tall (which I figure to be about 26 stories tall) and was built for the centerpiece of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892/1893, held to honor the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus. See where all this is going? That’s ok, I don’t either.
A few years before the Chicago Columbian Exposition, Paris had held an exposition of their own in 1889. It was at that expo that the Eiffel Tower was unveiled. Chicago wanted to out-Eiffel Eiffel, so they sent out a call for submissions around the world for some engineering marvel. Ferris of course submitted, never having actually built a wheel of that size, and quite predictably his design was dismissed. It was not believed to be possible. The whole structure he wanted to build weighed too much for the slender frame he claimed would support it.
So he submitted again. And was rejected again. I believe he actually submitted a third and a fourth time too, and finally on the fourth try he managed to convince the judges that this thing might actually be feasible. It is interesting to note that Eiffel himself submitted a proposal for what would have been a larger Eiffel tower. Obviously his design was not chosen.
Ferris’ first wheel took about 20-30 minutes to make two revolutions, and instead of small cars to hold passengers, there were massive cabins that could hold 60 people each, including one cabin that held an entire marching band which played whenever the wheel was turning.
found in Portland
Portland, OR
Yes. These are great.
I’m back in Portland…two months early but glad to be back so I can take care of my step-dad.
