For Gary, Toni and Cynthia: a few more “where we came from” pictures on the way to Talking Values.
This one is Dan - SPF clueless - in 1974. He, Ray and Boyce were building the Bullseye factory, brick by recycled brick.
Most of the building materials for the furnace room came from Zidel’s, a salvage yard in Portland’s south waterfront, a junk-lover’s paradise where dismantled naval vessels gave up their innards to the inveterate artist-tinkerers whose recipe for glassblowing, commerce, and hard-partying pretty much summed up the Zeitgeist of Portland’s ‘60s-sprouted entrepreneurs.
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