Thanks to my brother, I had a gift certificate to Rejuvenation Hardware that I used several months ago to buy a Portland-style ceramic address plate. Yesterday, the DIY-craft address plate came down (much to the chagrin of the myriad of spiders who had taken up residence behind it) and today the new plate went up.
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| There's spiders back there! |
The history:
In the early 1930's, the city of Portland, OR, was working through a
massive street re-naming and re-numbering project. Standard sets of
black and white ceramic address tiles were installed free of charge. A
W.P.A. project hired five-man teams from the ranks of unemployed to
renumber the city, attaching some 94,000 brackets. Read more about the history in
this Oregonian article.
We don't think that our house ever had one, since this wasn't one of the neighborhoods that was a part of the street re-naming and numbering process. We thought it was high time it did.
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| Replica of the 1930's city-issued address plate |
Now I have to patch the holes that the old plate left. Does anyone know where I can get pink spackle? Just kidding.
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