The Public Library Association’s 2010 National Conference is in town!
What’s that mean to you and me? I don’t know! But the thing I do know is that I love that local student librarians, Turner and Rebecca, made this film to help their colleagues find the best of our town while visiting. They check out Voodoo Doughnuts, some downtown Portland Food Carts, Stumptown Coffee, Floating World Comics, Powell’s City of Books and of course, Cupcake Jones.

CONTEST CLOSED. Your free tee of the week awaits you. Just correctly identify the location of the above photo and we’ll send you a “People’s Republic of Portland” T-shirt! Respond in the comments area below…and don’t worry about the “error” when submitting comments, it’s “normal”.

Good luck!

Past winners not eligible.

Okay, I didn’t move in. But I want to!

The people at Rejuvenation Hardware were accepting enough to have me milling around shooting things at will. I told them I was looking for ideas and needed pictures for reference. Not that anyone asked, it must be kind of common for people to take a few photos to see if things will work into their plans.

This is where I'd probably use my laptop. Jetson not allowed.

I'd roll right off the side of these things, however pretty they are.

If this is ancient, I'm getting there too. We had a similar one in the basement where I grew up.

Can't remember who I know that loves Milk Glass.

A different kind of glass. Pretty cool "reuse".

Does this Craftsman style stuff drive people who like "Country Style" crazy? Country drives me crazy.

Okay, I want to live in this chair, next to the warmth of this lamp.

We tried something like this wainscoting in the dining room and we got as far as a chair rail.

We replaced all of our door knobs and hinges from stock here, even though our house was brand new.

Favorite place for both kids and adults to play; the light bulb test area.

This is in the vintage area, where you can find all kinds of pieces to match what you've got going on.

Or someone will help find it for you. There's always someone to help on both the vintage and new sides.

Maybe they could stage our house when we're ready to sell. For now, we'll just visit.

A Little Bit about Rejuvenation Hardware (from their website)

Rejuvenation began in 1977 as an architectural salvage shop in a derelict North Portland saloon. Jim Kelly, who still owns the privately held company, began the business with $1,000 and an eye for discarded architectural treasures. When business was slow, Kelly rebuilt vintage light fixtures found amidst the castoffs. Demand for the fixtures grew until eventually Kelly began manufacturing period-authentic lighting in his Portland factory for customers throughout the United States.

With preservation as a core value, it’s no surprise that restoring old buildings is a Rejuvenation habit. We extensively rehabilitated the site of our Portland store, the historic 47,000-square-foot Neustadter Building, which for many years served as a wholesale flower mart. Our manufacturing plant is the 80,000-square-foot former Chase Bag Factory built in 1939. Rejuvenation’s Seattle store occupies the main floor of the Nisqually Building. Built originally in the early 1900s for a manufacturer of specialty rail cars, the Seattle store makes use of a 25-foot-high clerestory as a source of natural light.

Today, Rejuvenation is America’s largest manufacturer and leading direct marketer of authentic reproduction lighting and house parts. Rejuvenation products are made-to-order and sold through the company’s catalogue, website, and retail stores in Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash.

Rejuvenation is committed to manufacturing high-quality, authentic products that help our customers enhance the beauty of older homes, buildings and neighborhoods. Rejuvenation also remains committed to supporting the causes that we believe help sustain livable communities. That commitment translates to donating ten percent of the company’s yearly after tax profits to organizations whose missions are in line with our business. These are non-profits primarily in the areas of environmental conservation, historic preservation, the arts, and equal access to housing.

Rejuvenation also operates its manufacturing processes according to a framework that supports sustainability and a dedication to minimizing the company’s impact on the environment. Among other efforts, we’ve designed and implemented a closed-loop water recycling system that extracts heavy metals from our process water for safe disposal, and we’ve lowered our VOC emissions with new equipment and process controls.