I saw a post over at Jack Bog’s site and immediately ran down to see if it was true. And it is! Crap! Crap! Crap! That is one of the best signs we have in all of downtown. Only a couple of others rival it – Portland Outdoor Store and White Stag. I know the restaurant moved away awhile ago to 82nd, but I had thought they would leave the sign for historical value and to keep tricking tourists that Portland still has a Chinatown downtown.
Alas it is gone. Maybe it has moved to 82nd. I do know the building is being renovated for a new cool restaurant and such, so maybe the sign is in storage for the time being. One can hope. I just wish the new people making decisions would take into account those of us who have memories of such items. Maybe FoodDude or others will know where the sign went. Farewell Hung Far Low.
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I used to live across the street from this sign, and was incessantly annoyed by the drunk “bros” that came by point to their jock saying: “YEAH CHECK IT OUT HUNG FAR LOW”.
Nevertheless, it is sign of the move of Chinatown to SE 82nd. Pardon the pun.
End of an ear. It’s the beginning of “New Old Town”
No!
That is awful. I liked that disproportionately large female bartender who used to work there. She poured extremely stiff drinks. She was built like a linebacker.
Cheers,
Motor
This is a BAD SIGN. Not the sign itself, but the removal of it. I smell URBAN RENEWAL all over the place which could be a code word for GENTRIFICATION or alternately put, the CLEANING UP OF CHINATOWN which means something entirely PC and BLAND and a vaguely middle class white interpretation of multiculturalism (like some dragon statues or Chinese Palm trees) will be put in its place.
Or maybe, just maybe, it is being repaired or something and will return. I swear to god if Chinatown gets Yuppified like the rest of inner Portland, I am moving. I’m sick of this shit.
It’s being repaired, and it is coming back.
At least according to this Mercury blogpost earlier this evening, that is…
Betsy, whew. Hysteria over. It’s just I’m having a little Portlanditis right now with regards to change. I love change, in fact my sofa is full of it. It just worries me when the unique character of Portland (such as neon signs and food carts) start to get “cleaned up” and replaced with new sterile stuff. You know…
I am currently helping the owner of the Hung Far Low Building manage the repair and rennovation of the sign. The City of Portland had the sign taken down when the company replacing the roof of the building discovered that the sign was anchored to parts of the roof sub-structure that were completely rotted. The removal of the sign was dictated by public safety concerns – nothing else.
Didn’t Hung Far Low restaurant move to 82dn and SE Division? The sign should move there too.
It’ll fit in perfectly next to Taboo Adult Video.
There is a Re-Erect Hung Far Low campaign at http://www.ReErectHungFarLow.com
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