This used to be the name of the street we live on. Back when this was East Portland instead a part of Portland, the north/south avenues were named instead of numbered. We now live on 7th Place. It's 2 blocks long and doesn't exist elsewhere in the city. We live in an old neighborhood in a new house. Most of the streets and houses were put in around 1910. We still have tether rings for horses embedded in the sidewalks and iron rub rails on the curbs to keep them from chipping. These all go back to the days of horse drawn transportation.
This is our house. We've lived here for 10 years. The original house on this lot was condemned and torn down. The chain link fence on the north side of the house is all that's left of the original property. It's been a great place to live. We have 4 restaurants, a brew pub, coffee shop, park and bike shop within 4 blocks. The quintessential Portland neighborhood. It's known as the Dekum Triangle and the Woodlawn Neighborhood.
This is who lives in the house. My wife, Diane and myself. She is the reason this is such a great house. She fills it with love and grandchidren, takes excellent care of me and herself and makes it a place where all our kids are happy to come visit. And she drives the red Jeep in the driveway. Pretty much just our youngest lived in this house. The rest were out of the house or just here sporadically by the time we moved here but all know it as a home they can come to.
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