In response to my story yesterday about Bullseye’s beginnings, I got this email from Linda Steider:
“I used to bring my students from the gorge to tour the factory & especially loved it when our tour guide would point out the old beam that was left in place from when the factory was being built around the houses without tearing them down first. Is the beam still there?”
Linda’s question sent me back to the archives for this tour of THE YEAR WE BUILT THE NEW FACTORY OVER THE OLD ONE.
The first Bullseye “factory” was a little frame house in a Southeast Portland neighborhood called Garlic Gulch. As the company grew - and the neighbors evacuated, the guys would buy the house next door, until they owned 5 or 6 shacks cobbled together with corrugated metal and duct tape.
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