Dinner Tuesday was at Old Town Pizza, whose old building is rumored to be haunted. The decor and furniture harken back to days long ago when having one too many might lead to getting shanghaied into servitude on the high seas. Nowadays, the biggest danger there is overindulging on tasty pizza.
Wednesday started off with a bus ride and short trek to the Oregon Musuem of Science and Industry (OMSI) on the eastern side of the river. It’s the kind of place I would’ve loved as a kid and still enjoyed as an adult: a musuem with tons of hands-on exhibits.
The USS Blueback, a 1959-vintage diesel-electric submarine, is moored out front along the river. Taking a tour really gave me an appreciation for how cramped life aboard a sub was at the height of the cold war before larger nuclear subs came into vogue.
For lunch, I headed east to the funky/hip Hawthorne district, similar in flavor to Philadelphia’s South Street. After a burger and another Free Range Red at Bread and Ink, I window-shopped, people-watched, and checked out the restored landmark Bagdad theatre.
