Tag: Flanders

  • A drawing of a Brooklyn lantern on a pile of slabwood

    FF#89 Who are the street named for? Part One ABCs.

    Streets of the Alphabet District After rolling out the new website this week the page with this street name information was ghosted. For a decade we use to print out this list of street name attributes for our guests. After COVID paper became less of a thing. A frequently asked question: “Where is the A street?”  It is located south…

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  • Slabtown Nob Hill Fun Fact #28: The Simpsons in Portland

    While Simpsons creator Matt Groening attended Ainsworth Grade School, the elementary school in The Simpsons is called Springfield Elementary. The schools have matching floor plans and similar facades. Both the fictional school and real school have experienced almost constant reductions in their budgets, with deferred maintenance and overcrowding the norm. Springfield Elementary is filled with asbestos, but the series has…

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