Viking_Yearbook_64

village A petition drive for student signatures, with jazz concert accompaniment, was not enough to save The V illage. March, 1964, saw the black Destroying Angel that accompanies Progress strike that bohemian clutter of dwellings which for forty years was sheltered by the em– bracing arms of the hairpin turn on Up– per Hall Street. Built on the site of an old TB colony, the sagging roofed , bowed floored apartments were home to Portland jazzmen , artists , write rs, bohemia and, in those last years , Portland State stu– dents. All who lived there found that its close communal atmosphere made life more bearable. And at times , inexpen– sive. Manual Izquierdo,Jon Colburn ,Bill Creitz, Marylin and Gordon Clark, Jan– kees Duvekot, Steve Landers, Shirley and Eric Vale, Jean Hoffman, Patty and Carl Smith , "Knuckles ," Bob Gage, "Con," and on and on . It would be im– possible to list them all; the names go back over two generations but they hold in common-The Village . The Village was-loves made and lost, good times and bad , study, music , wall paintings , a good view, temperamental plumbing, warm friends , parties , beer, wine, home brew. And a spirit as evan– escent as the essence of ch ildhood days or the smells of a warm summer attic ... a spirit now released by the sadistic quirk of a crowbar.