St Johns: Faces and Places
Pattie Dietz, 65 in July, owner
Pattie’s Home Plate Café and Fountain
8501 N. Lombard
Portland, OR
(503) 285-5507
When Dietz was a child growing up in St. Johns, her café used to be a Rexall Drug store.
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Sean McFadden, 31, sales associate,
Blue Moon Camera and Machine
8417 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 978-0333
In business since 2001, the Blue Moon was a photography studio before owner Jake Sh
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L to R: Bob Leveton, 68 and Jerry Leveton, 72, co-owners and brothers,
The Man’s Shop
8511 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 286-3514
The Man’s Shop has been in the Leveton family for 70 years, an
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(Left-right) Ben Heiken, 32; Jon Stanley, 25; Kim Marquardt, 30
Proper Eats Cafe
8638 North Lombard Street
Portland, OR 97203-3731
(503) 445-2007
All the food this local grocery store and café sells is v
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Joe Flanagan, 26, manager
The Recyclery
8416 N. Lombard Ave.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 289-2573
Flanagan bikes 14 miles to work from his home on SE Division. Though he’s only worked in the St. Johns store
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Toby Tobiason, 66, owner
Vinyl Resting Place
8332 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 247-9573
Tobiason runs this 13-year-old record store, just a 10 minute walk from his home, with his wife Pat Smit
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Sherry Zingg, 47, bartender
The Wishing Well
8800 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 286-4434
Zingg has been coming to the Wishing Well since she was a little girl when her dad would bring her ther
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Justin Colwell, 37, owner and barber
Champs Barber and Style Shop
8738 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 286-3333
Champs offers hot facial shaves and a full razor shave, which Colwell claims you w
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Heather Mayer, owner
Parlour-St. Johns
7327 N. Charleston Ave.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 289-0830
The salon was formerly the storage unit for Signal Pizza right next door.
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Kassidy Anderson, 23, pizza girl, Signal Pizza
8302 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 286-2257
In business for four and a half years, Signal Pizza’s previous incarnations include a florist shop and gas s
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Art Gilbert, 57, baker
Tulip Pastry Shop
8322 N. Lombard
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 286-3444
Tulip Bakery is a family affair. “My wife owns the place, we just run it,” Gilbert says of him and his son. In
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Danielle “Danny” McCarthy, 24, server and barista
James John Café
8527 N Lombard St
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 285-4930
This three-year-old café and restaurant occupies what used to be the first bank in S
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Ian Dawson, 24, barista,
Anna Bannanas
8716 N Lombard St
Portland, OR
(503) 286-2030
St. Johns has “got this strange dichotomy of older people who’ve been here for ever, and 30-somethings and new paren
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L to R: Kert Wright, 58, owner, and Sayuri Sasaki-Hemann, 29, Wright’s “right-hand man”
Sabi and Friends Vintage Home & Garden
8402 N. Lombard St.
Portland, OR 97203
(503) 719-6176
The building hous
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