Picture: SE Portland's Dixie Mattress Is Closed
April 21, 2010 — PDXPIPELINE
Dixie Mattress Closed
3326 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214
Taken on: April 21, 2010
Although it seemed to have been closed for years, it is now official…What do we think is going in there? Bike Shop? Tattoo Shop? Bar? Restaurant? Strip Club?
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Related from the nets:
- From Matt Davis/Portland Mercury: Dixie Mattress Protest/Harrassment
- From Ask-Steve.com: Portland Hall of Shame: Dixie Mattress Co., Southeast Belmont
- From Anna Griffin, Oregonian: Portland shop defends its Dixie flags
- From Kevin Mannis/Associated Content: My Poor Opinion of Liberal Business Owners in Portland Neighborhood
April 22, 2010 at 04:37
going out on a high note… with a misspelled banner
April 22, 2010 at 07:18
Not sure what will take Dixie’s place, but a new bar/record store/coffee shop called Hall of Records is going in next door http://portland.daveknows.org/2010/04/06/hall-of-records-is-almost-here/
April 22, 2010 at 08:09
That place was OPEN all these years?!?!?
April 22, 2010 at 11:43
Thank God that sketchy, faux mob-storefront is gone. What a waste of real estate for so many years.
April 22, 2010 at 12:28
I predict another strip club or crappy McMenamins or Lucky Lab brew pub.
April 22, 2010 at 14:28
thank god. this is the coolest building on this street. please whoever bought this…. at least make it look nice from the outside. isn’t it actually 2 storefronts?? 2 new establishments??!!! talk about a piece of Portland history. good or bad. what a score. please take down the flags for gods sake
April 22, 2010 at 17:15
I personally am slightly sickened by the judging of this shop and proprietors by the people in this neighborhood. It seems that those that preach diversity and tolerance can be very quick to display the very opposite when it doesn’t fit into ‘their’ paradigm of what society should be.
I do not condone racism, nor do I condone witch hunts.
April 22, 2010 at 17:21
If you have a racist friend
Now is the time, now is the time
For your friendship to end
Be it your sister, be it your brother
Be it your cousin, or your uncle, or your lover
If you have a racist friend
Now is the time, now is the time
For your friendship to end
Be it your best friend, or any other
Is it your husband, or your father, or your mother
Either change their views
Or change your friends
If you have a racist friend
Now is the time, now is the time
For your friendship to end
So if you know a racist who thinks he is your friend
Now is the time, now is the time
For your friendship to end
Call yourself my friend
Now is the time to make up your mind
Don’t try to pretend
—The Specials
April 22, 2010 at 17:33
Seriously,
I don’t condone witch hunts either, but what does “Long Live Dixie” and the Confederacy stand for if it is not racism, slavery and treason. And I say that being born and living for many years in Mississippi and much family there. That flag is equal to the Nazi flag.
April 24, 2010 at 23:14
They always had the oddest things in their display windows… dusty odd trinkets and fake flowers.
April 26, 2010 at 03:28
finally, now there can be something useful in there.
April 28, 2010 at 15:00
willamete week says bye and bye bought the dixie. if thats true, we’ve got a new bar to look forward to.. or a restaurant. maybe they will expand on their menu. the current one is ok but i wish it had more options. would be nice not to travel to the northeast!
April 28, 2010 at 15:10
Yeah…BarFly told me that on Saturday and I put that up yesterday around 1PM after texting one of their workers. See: http://twitter.com/PdxPipeline/status/12961899911
Glad WW caught up today :)