[music] hi, this is Annie Coburn for Fab Placez.
Welcome to Portland, Oregon.
Portland, Oregon sits at the end of the Old Oregon Trail.
It was once a clearing called Stumptown.
But now today, Portland, Oregon is a bustling city of 583,000 people.
[music] Buying a ticket on the MAX is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
The first that you do is select your fare.
Now here's the good news.
If you are over the age of 64 you can buy a one day pass for only $2.00 which is the
best deal in Portland.
You can use either cash or credit card to make your payment.
And then what you do is collect your ticket and hop on the Max.
Food Trailers.
Portland has over 600 licensed food vendors.
So, while your walking around Portland looking for something to eat stop by one of the food
vendors.
You can everything from Gyros, to Thai food, to Mexican food, to Reindeer sausage.
Voodoo Donuts: Behind me is Voodoo Donuts.
There's always a line in front of Voodoo Donuts.
Not sure why, but we're going to find out.
I'm here with Paige and McKenna and they're from Boise, Idaho.
How long have you been standing in line to get some Voodoo Donuts?
Five minutes.
Five minutes and it looks like you may have about twenty more to go.
So, are you gonna buy a dozen?
I don't know.
We've never been here.
We'll find out.
OK.
Why did you decide you wanted to come to Voodoo Donuts?
We've heard all about their donuts and we're interested in checking them out.
All right!
[music] Coffee: Stumptown was the name that was given to Portland when it was just a clearing
at the end of the Oregon Trail.
But, what is interesting about Stumptown Coffee Roasters is that Oregonians have a tremendous
enthusiasm for beer and coffee.
Instead of going to that nationally known coffee house out of Seattle, Washington, when
you're in Portland come over here to Stumptown Coffee Roasters.
[music] Pearl District: The Pearl District is a relatively
new area of Portland.
It was redeveloped about ten years ago.
It once housed the brewing facility for Henry Weinhart's brewery.
It was there for almost a hundred years.
They did all the brewing, the bottling, everything in that neighborhood.
Then, when Henry Weinhart's left, the neighborhood sat vacant for a really long time.
Some developers came through and redeveloped everything brought in great restaurants, nice
highrise condominiums, and a great neighborhood.
So, we are on the corner of 5th and Davis in Old Town Chinatown right on the Max line.
Easy access from many places.
Also a very walkable location from the Pearl District, from downtown, from northwest.
So, kind of middleville.
Breweries: A little background on Deschutes.
Deschutes started in Bend, Oregon in 19088.
It started with a single brew house that was a ten barrel system.
From there they opened their production facility.
The production facility now has two brew houses.
One is a fifty barrel system, the other about a 140 barrel system.
We are the first adventure out of Bend for Deschutes.
About five years ago, we took this old auto body shop and converted it into a brew pub.
Here at the Portland pub we work on recipe development which is a lot of fun for us.
We get to do a lot of experimentation.
We have 16 taps and most of them are constantly rotating.
So, there is always something new on tap here.
On your next visit to Portland, be sure to swing by Deschutes.
We're two blocks from Powell's, on the corner of 11th and Davis, in NW Portland.
If you come by, be sure to knock on the door and give the brewers a little howdy.
Powell Books: Powell's City of Books right here in downtown Portland, is the largest
new and used book store in our world in the English speaking language.
We have to color every room so that people know where they are and where to go.
And because of the huge bookstore that we are and at some points, four stories high,
we have offered for every customer a store map to walk through the store and find what
they're looking for.
[music] So, if you ever come to Portland, Oregon, I would highly suggest that you come
to Powell's City of Books.
This little world of ours was created in 1971.
Created what we call the world's largest new and used bookstore in the English speaking
language.
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