A reader of Lost Oregon sent the following to me. Any clue to where this once stood or if in fact it was ever built?
I just purchased this very cool neon sign design proposal / rendering [see above] at Hawthorne Vintage and am trying to find out more information about the building / business itself. It was found last fall at the estate sale of Anne Boyd, whose longtime companion Robert Darnielle owned a place called “Darnielle’s Supper Club” in the 70’s (can’t find any info. about this place either). Word is The Clock actually existed at some time in close-in NW, but I have been unable to locate anything about it.
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No idea, but that’s very cool.
I believe The Clock was off of Russell Street and Williams. If I remember right it’s the building that has the Truck front on it now. I don’t know when it changed, but I would have last seen it in the late 80’s.
It seems that Darnielle’s Supper Club was in in the building where the East Bank is now on Broadway. Again, if I remember right, it was a Jazz club that closed in the 60’s and played host to many of the Jazz Greats. I think I read that in a book about Portland’s Jazz scene.
Hopefully my memory isn’t as bad as I think it is and this is actually useful!
Hi Rick – thank you so much for the comment and history of The Clock. Just for the record, your memory is wayyyy better than mine! 😉
I checked my 1974 phonebook and found that Darnielle’s Supper Club was located NW 24th and Vaughn, the Clock was not listed. I hope this helps!
“I checked my 1974 phonebook…”
That’s awesome on so many levels. Thanks for the info!
Super painting–I love it. I might be inspired to paint one like it myself. You made a very good acquisition. What is so good about it is its unusual perspective, which seems primitive. But the atmosphere is sophisticated. I don’t remember this establishment, unfortunately.
There are a couple random 50s and 60s Portland city directories posted online that are great for things like this.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22Portland%2C%20Or.%20%3A%20R.L.%20Polk%22
Thanks for the great resource, Tim!
Following up on Sputnikmoss’ great use of the phone book we broke out two of ours and found that in both the 1959 & 1963 phone book The Clock was listed at 1949 NW 24th.
No mention of Darnielle’s that early though.