Saturday, October 17, 2009

Another Portland coffeehouse closes

Chance of Rain, just off Hawthorne at 32nd, has the ominous brown paper covering its windows. Lonely picnic tables and a couch sit dismally outside. The Web sit is no more.

The shop had been one of the few in town run by a collective. I'm sorry it didn't make it.

Also closed, and much missed, is Dancing Beans, which used to be on SE 12th a few blocks south of Hawthorne. It was a wonderful place to work, partly because it was so quiet—but too much quiet is death in this business.

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