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Documents-I am posting these documents for Tri-Met drivers. Many drivers that I drove with ten years ago must wonder what happened to me.

Portland History Jantzen Beach

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I drove out of Merlo Garage for four years, serving the extra board for two years. And then I drove out of Center Garage for another two years. I drove for Tri-Met six years all together and stopped driving when I became insulin dependent in 2005. Tri-Met certainly wanted me to keep driving. I did not want to drive on insulin. I wanted an off the road job. I have never regretted leaving or driving for them. This is a retirement party for Arlene. I couldn't help thinking that this building would make a beautiful dance studio.

My graduation class at Tri-Met March 1999. My first day working, March 29, 1999. The day that my grandson, Charlie, was born. I am third from the left.

10th Street my neigborhood The Art Museum to the right, apt. building and then our Safeway on the left and more apts. I am off here, otherwise it is four more blocks to the Goose Hallow Max Station

The 6 Bus stop on the Hawthorne Bridge

Crossing the Willamette on the Hawthorne Bridge heading downtown Portland

A very nice trash container

Max Station at the Convention Center decorative looking bird poo 1% art

Inbound down MLK to Portland

Leaving Jantzen Beach and crossing the Columbia? About War time Janzen Beach was a huge carnival.

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A nice self-portrait with my camera, I think. Still at Janzen Beach.

Here I am with my buses, the shadow below...

Jantzen Beach

The new and improved? Jantzen Beach destination

When I first started to drive the 6 I saw a lot of this. When Tri-Met was too slow to build bus shelters sofas and chairs would appear. Down on Killingsworth there was a great long sofa.

This is known as the Alberta District. During the sixties and before this was the segragated area where African Americans could not buy properties beyond. Portland has always been integrated in that people were free to move around. I'd listen to the stories when I would drive folks around. How the coloured folk were only allowed in the balconies of the movie theators and they would take the oportunity to drop popcorn on the white man's head.

a stop by NikeFactorys

Max Station and LLoyd Center

Burnside and Martin Luther King connect to Bus 20 and 19

Coming off the Hawthorne Bridge, turning left onto Martin Luther King, outbound

NEW YEAR'S DAY 2015 just the driver and me so far today

The stop on the Park Blocks-park blocks that run north-south from PSU to a community park on the NW side.

The Park Blocks  SW

Heading out of Portland-down Columbia St. to the Hawthorne Bridge

6 Stop on 12th and Columbia

Here it is, heading out to Gresham!

I am waiting for the 6 and watching for the Max train coming from the Zoo.                                                  

Outbound Portland on the 6

I am just getting off the Max after boarding on 10th and Morrison, downtown Portland.