When Knitting Was a Manly Art

Personally, life is pretty good right now. Work is still a struggle though. Our night manager, who went on maternity leave, is coming back to work on weekends, but our youngest employee is leaving for a three week graduation vacation, so we’re still shorthanded. Boss is handing me more responsibility, but that also means I don’t close the restaurant as many days. Currently closing only two nights a week.

With all the free time I now have I’ve been doing a lot of reading and visiting Powell’s Bookstore in Portland. And with that, I’ve discovered new site online where you can catalog your library and I’ve been busy adding books in my collection. I hadn’t realized how my cooking related books I had until I see in a listing like this. Still digging out all my knitting books, so all of those haven’t yet been entered.

One of my recent additions is The Portland Bridge Book. Portland is one of the great bridge cities. Bridges help define Portland and the city, county and state have done a magnificent job of preserving our bridges. The book inspired me to create my own personal archive of pictures of the bridges.

I started today in the little North Portland Community of St. Johns and the St. Johns Bridge. Opened in 1931 and at river mile 5.8, it is the first Willamette River crossing for automobiles as you travel upriver and is Portland’s only suspension bridge. At the east end of the bridge is a public park known as “Cathedral Park” because of the gothic arches that pass through it’s center

At the east end of the bridge is a 29,000 ton cable anchorage

And a walk over the bridge to the west side and and opening in the trees where I was able to put together a 4 shot panorama of the whole bridge.

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