Passengers got to watch as the duo, who are well-known for the their LADs characters (black-and-white smiley-faced characters with over-sized features), worked on the new piece work in the CVG ticketing area.
Between the herds of food trucks and the bevy of highly-rated restaurants, Portland, Oregon has become a foodie’s mecca.
Now there’s an exhibit of photographs by Dave Lutz at Portland International Airport (PDX) celebrating that chow-centric culture. The photos Lutz chose for this show feature culinary landmarks, including Andina, Bar Mingo, Beast, Huber’s, Jacobsen Salt Co., Le Pigeon, iorio, Nostrana, Paley’s Place, Papa Haydn, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and the Tabor Czech food cart. And each photograph is accompanied by a description of the place and people pictured.
Huber’s Café, established in 1879, is Portland’s oldest restaurant and well-known for Spanish coffees. Keith Korter, bartender. Photo by Dave Lutz.
Whether you’ve eaten at any of these beloved Portland hotspots, be sure head down the PDX Concourse Connector (post-security) next time you’re at Portland International Airport. PDX art program coordinators promise you’ll find out which local chefs are multiple James Beard Award winners and “how a local staple grew from the back of a Ford Pinto into a national chain.”
Portland-based Moonstruck Chocolates were among the many regionally-created chocolates for sale at the Made In Oregon Shop, which also had a great section of locally-brewed beers, including this very unusual Voodoo Doughnut-inspired chocolate, peanut butter and banana ale.
And, rare among airport book shops, Powell’s Book had a good selection of used books for sale.
Do you poke around the shops when you’re stuck at the airport? If you find a fun, locally-linked item that strikes your fancy, please snap a photo and send it along. If your souvenir is featured on Souvenir Sunday, I’ll send you a travel-related souvenir.
It’s Souvenir Sunday and time to take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive, locally-linked items you can find when you’re stuck at the airport.
This week’s treasures come from Oregon’s Portland International Airport (PDX), which I visited while trying to collect on all the offers included in the Portland Passport that Travel Portland is offering visitors as a perk with hotel rooms booked through its site from now through April 1st. The freebies include tasty treats such as a cream doughnut from Voodoo Doughnuts (their slogan is “The magic is in the hole.”) and a YouCanHasCheeseburger from Brunch Box, one of the 500 or so food carts in a city known now as “Food Cart Heaven.”
For some reason, a plate of meatballs from the cafeteria at IKEA is one of the items on the passport. And while I don’t eat meat, (they offered a nice Greek salad instead) I was all too happy to make the trek out there because IKEA is just one stop on the MAX light rail before the airport.
Portland International Airport is one of my favorite airports partly because I used live nearby, but also because among the many amenities it offers is a pre-security shopping street with outlets from some of the city’s most popular local stores. And because in Oregon, there is no sales tax.
I found the Oregon-themed table cloth pictured up top at the airport’s Pendleton store, which carries a wide variety of iconic Pendleton apparel and blankets as well a nice variety of accessories and items for children.
A bit out of my price range at $185 but, as another shopper was quick to point out, definitely offered at market price, were these Dr. Martens boots, a cool collaboration between the two companies.
Do you poke around the shops when you’re stuck at the airport? If so, please be on the look-out for items that are fun, inexpensive and “of” the city or region. If you do, please snap a photo and send it along. If your airport souvenir is featured on StuckatTheAirport.com, I’ll send you a travel souvenir.
Damien Gilley creates masterpiece made from masking tape at PDX.
It looks like it might be painted on the wall, but Damien Gilley’s ‘Skywalker’, on display at Portland International Airport for the next year, is actually a masking tape creation portraying aiport skybridges. Look for it on Concourse A.
Gilley’s temporary exhibit is on display at PDX for one year.
