Comments on: Hung Far Low sign is gone!

By: Tyler Byrd

Tyler Byrd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:21:36 +0000

There is a Re-Erect Hung Far Low campaign at http://www.ReErectHungFarLow.com

By: Cosmic Charlie

Cosmic Charlie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:29:50 +0000

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.

By: Kurt Huffman

Kurt Huffman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:20:09 +0000

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.

By: Lizzy Caston

Lizzy Caston — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:34:42 +0000

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…

By: Betsy Richter

Betsy Richter — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:52:11 +0000

It's being repaired, and it is coming back. At least according to this Mercury blogpost earlier this evening, that is...

By: Lizzy Caston

Lizzy Caston — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:28:19 +0000

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.

By: Motor

Motor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:03:13 +0000

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

By: Geoff K

Geoff K — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:54:56 +0000

End of an ear. It’s the beginning of “New Old Town”

By: jakeo

jakeo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:51:29 +0000

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.