[or-roots] Buttermilk Corner

[kat1928 at integrity.com]

Quoting dgoodma02 at comcast.net:

> Dorothy:  We must have lived pretty close to each other.  did you go to
> Franklin HiSchool?  I lived on 59th SE just off Hawthorne, Mt Tabor was just
> behind us.
>
> --
> Bob Goodman
> USAF Retired
> University Place, Washington
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> > Quoting dgoodma02 at comcast.net:
> >
> > > This morning my wife brought home a carton of Buttermilk and it made me
> think
> > > of the "Buttermilk Corner" in Portland. Anyone remember that place? We
> lived
> > > on 59th SE and Hawthorne. I would walk to the corneron 59th SE from home,
> > > catch a bus and get off near Powells Book store. I attended Multnomah Jr
> > > College in the YWCA Building and I know that the Buttermilk Corner was
> near
> > > there, 'cause I bought a glas of Buttermilk ther once in a while.--REAL
> > > BUTTERMILK with the small bits of butter in it. Not the synthetic stuff
> you
> > > get today!!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob Goodman
> > > USAF Retired
> > > University Place, Washington
> >
> >
> > Bob;
> >
> > Yes, how well I remember the Buttermilk Corner! We lived on 49th just off
> > Hawthorne. We would take the Hawthorne bus to downtown Portland. The
> > Buttermilk Corner we went to was on Yamhill between 3rd and 5th; down from
> the
> > original Fred Meyer and along by the Farmers' Markets. We bought a tall
> glass
> > of that "old-fashioned buttermilk". We could drink all we could hold for
> 10c
> > and at that time we could hold several glasses!
> > I often yen for some of that original buttermilk; the cultured stuff just
> > doesn't measure up.
> > Isn't it wonderful that some of us can remember all that good stuff!
> >
> > Dorothy Webb
> >
> >
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Bob;

I went to Glencoe Grade and then to Irvington; Then to Girls' Poly.  All of us
kids played in Mt. Tabor Park.  It was good moth collecting after dark.

Dorothy