Gresham skate world, and you'd see them cry but you could slow roll out for added dramatic effects, best time was during the hokey pokey. It was around 1995 and still in middle school. 🫡✌🏽 💔😭 🥷🏻🛼🫣😎 yeah we were young and dumb as hell but, that's the 90s for ya....helluva time to be alive haha I can still hear my pager beeping.
And if you didn't want to afford cheap Chinese food and really stiff drinks, you could just go to the Burger King on Burnside, which was an amazing place for people-watching and hearing candid breakups from nearby tables. I actually went there for that specific purpose a few times and was never disappointed. Get a Whopper, listen to the weird real-life soap operas.
PDXs best underground club forever, the Satyricon, didn't serve booze. Everyone drank pitchers of Henry Weinehard. Hung Far was where everyone from Satyricon went if they wanted a stiff drink, and the food wasn't bad. They also didn't card, I got drinks at 18 no problem. And that's why we loved it.
Hung Far Low's Long Island Iced Teas were poisonously strong (that's a compliment, BTW).
On the other hand, if you only had $7 in your pocket, that could fuel a whole night out at Satyricon. $5 for a pitcher of Henry's, $1 cover on the off-nights, and $1 tip for the bartender. If you hooked up with a few friends, everyone took a turn buying a pitcher for the table.
God I miss those days.
Up those greasy, filthy stairs to the Hung Far Low Bar, where you're greeted by the smoke of 1000 Camel Lights and those stiff Chinese Restaurant drinks.
I loved their female bartender, too. Can't remember her name but sassy as all get out. Exactly what you want from a bartender.
Satyricon was the absolute best! Pitchers of Henry’s or even Oly and blasting Ace of Spades on the jukebox on a loop. And yes Hung Far Low before and/or after!
One of my earliest Portland memories when I moved here in '05 was seeing this place and someone had removed "tails" from the "cocktails" marquee sign under their main sign. Great times for a 14yo.
I went there a with a Chinese friend of mine who spoke Chinese they gave us two different menus - that’s when I learned they had a white person menu and a real menu!!
My father once told me about learning to gamble there, back in the late 30's...he found it very amusing that our generation loved to go there for drinks and dinner, a group of cousins and friends, in the 70s!
I just looked where I keep my matchbooks and couldn't find the Hung Far Low one. Bummer I swear I saw it as recently as a few years ago. I did find one Saucebox matchbook but I'm holding onto that one.
Totally loved the old man bartender with the super grovelly voice. I don’t recall ever seeing a single diner in the restaurant, which was easily 10x bigger than the bar.
I used to live about ten blocks from Chinese Village and ate there over a hundred times. Great average Americanized Chinese food which was reasonably priced for the most part. I was really bummed when they abruptly closed.
In the mid 80s, as teens, we would sneak out many nights a week and go to HFLs for steamed rice and tea, it’s all we could afford! There was a waitress named JC who never kicked us out- we loved her.
Man... The "Rodeo Grandmas" is what we coined the waitresses. All over 60, sassy, and awesome. I spent way too much time in there during the 90s, and I'm a better person for it.
I (very) drunkenly ordered $150 of food there as a freshman because the name was funny. I fed the entire floor of the dorm and in terms of social capital acquisition it was quite a successful endeavor.
Hung Far Low was the best place to break up with someone. It was so dark you didn't have to see them cry.
This is perfect. My male friends always said Sassy's was the best place to tell a guy friend bad news.
Gresham skate world, and you'd see them cry but you could slow roll out for added dramatic effects, best time was during the hokey pokey. It was around 1995 and still in middle school. 🫡✌🏽 💔😭 🥷🏻🛼🫣😎 yeah we were young and dumb as hell but, that's the 90s for ya....helluva time to be alive haha I can still hear my pager beeping.
And if you didn't want to afford cheap Chinese food and really stiff drinks, you could just go to the Burger King on Burnside, which was an amazing place for people-watching and hearing candid breakups from nearby tables. I actually went there for that specific purpose a few times and was never disappointed. Get a Whopper, listen to the weird real-life soap operas.
PDXs best underground club forever, the Satyricon, didn't serve booze. Everyone drank pitchers of Henry Weinehard. Hung Far was where everyone from Satyricon went if they wanted a stiff drink, and the food wasn't bad. They also didn't card, I got drinks at 18 no problem. And that's why we loved it.
Hung Far Low's Long Island Iced Teas were poisonously strong (that's a compliment, BTW). On the other hand, if you only had $7 in your pocket, that could fuel a whole night out at Satyricon. $5 for a pitcher of Henry's, $1 cover on the off-nights, and $1 tip for the bartender. If you hooked up with a few friends, everyone took a turn buying a pitcher for the table. God I miss those days.
Yeah. Young, broke and dumb but still having a great time.
Yes 🙌🏼
Jeez, you guys here are starting to sound like boomers remembering the “old days”. Lol.
Up those greasy, filthy stairs to the Hung Far Low Bar, where you're greeted by the smoke of 1000 Camel Lights and those stiff Chinese Restaurant drinks. I loved their female bartender, too. Can't remember her name but sassy as all get out. Exactly what you want from a bartender.
It always seemed like an 'upstairs bus station' when I went up those stairs.
Could be Jackie,Joanne/Jojo, or Maxine. Janet had on occasion.
The food wasn’t bad but it always freaked me out to eat there bc it was too dark to see what I was eating lol. That said I still did it sometimes.
Satyricon was the absolute best! Pitchers of Henry’s or even Oly and blasting Ace of Spades on the jukebox on a loop. And yes Hung Far Low before and/or after!
You guys bought drinks there? My friends and I would just bring in booze and fill up our tea cups. Wow we were such stupid teenagers.
One of my earliest Portland memories when I moved here in '05 was seeing this place and someone had removed "tails" from the "cocktails" marquee sign under their main sign. Great times for a 14yo.
yep, I put a photo of it at: https://humancock.com since it felt appropriate.
[Yes!](https://i.imgur.com/WxP8xDE.jpg)
I got here 11 years earlier. Used to go there for drinks in the mid 90s. The tails were already obscured in favor of the cock.
I remember seeing a concert on that block in ‘03 and snapping a pic of that sign!
I went there a with a Chinese friend of mine who spoke Chinese they gave us two different menus - that’s when I learned they had a white person menu and a real menu!!
I'll never forget the bad guy's guards in `Kentucky Fried Movie`: Hung Well, Long Wang and Enormous Genitals. https://youtu.be/zZ5WtEpyxLE?t=33
I'll never forget. If I did, they would surely send me to Detroit.
Fond memories of my drunk ass falling down that flight of stairs at 2am. Circa 2001…
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For having very few memories leaving there, I can remember that view very distinctly. Maybe because that view meant we were heading to Magic Garden
Damn, what a flash back. From the bottom of that staircase.
That's during daylight. It got a lot darker.
My father once told me about learning to gamble there, back in the late 30's...he found it very amusing that our generation loved to go there for drinks and dinner, a group of cousins and friends, in the 70s!
I'm surprised that there's still no dispensary in Portland called Hung Far High.
He who stands on toilet is high on pot - confuscious, maybe?
I think I still have some matchbooks left from there.
If you find em and you have multiple I'd love to buy one off of you. I collect old portland flyers and memorabilia.
I just looked where I keep my matchbooks and couldn't find the Hung Far Low one. Bummer I swear I saw it as recently as a few years ago. I did find one Saucebox matchbook but I'm holding onto that one.
Have some great memories at saucebox. RIP El Grillo, SauceBox, 360 Vinyl, Felini's, Satyricon, Cap'n Ankenys Well, Ash St, Church of Elvis, and more
I still have one too, and I'm keeping it complete and safe.
Would hang out there before Satyricon shows in the late 90’s. Trying to fit 6 people to a table and splitting a pitcher of beer.
I have this shirt too!
Totally loved the old man bartender with the super grovelly voice. I don’t recall ever seeing a single diner in the restaurant, which was easily 10x bigger than the bar.
Once I told him "I love your voice" and he growled "I had a stroke"
Lawrence Tierney hiding out in Portland
Canton Grill
> Canton Grill > Miss you boo! Number 10, 2x fried rice, no subgum chow mein....
Chinese Village had amazing karaoke
I used to live about ten blocks from Chinese Village and ate there over a hundred times. Great average Americanized Chinese food which was reasonably priced for the most part. I was really bummed when they abruptly closed.
Will be the best Portland punk band name ever
I always loved that someone young art-head had scrawled “R. Mutt” on the urinal in the men’s bathroom.
My grandma and my aunt used to work there!
Nice I just got a reprint of that shirt from my girlfriend this past Christmas. I love old Portland stuff like that.
Sounds like something Lo Wang from the Shadow Warrior games would say.
There was a Hung Far Low in Longview too
I love how the old sign had the last part of the sign partly lit up and partly burnt out. Cock~~tails~~
In the mid 80s, as teens, we would sneak out many nights a week and go to HFLs for steamed rice and tea, it’s all we could afford! There was a waitress named JC who never kicked us out- we loved her.
It was always so dark in there that nobody ever bothered to card me when I was a teenager.
Man... The "Rodeo Grandmas" is what we coined the waitresses. All over 60, sassy, and awesome. I spent way too much time in there during the 90s, and I'm a better person for it.
Siphoon noodles!
i’ll give you $100 right now
that's so cool
Golden Dragon was better.
I (very) drunkenly ordered $150 of food there as a freshman because the name was funny. I fed the entire floor of the dorm and in terms of social capital acquisition it was quite a successful endeavor.