Go out the way we came in…RIGHT out of industrial park onto HWY 58 West…LEFT onto CLOVERDALE ROAD – follow signs for I-5 SOUTH DETOUR CLOVERDALE ROAD to Creswell…arrows to lot.
Shows at 2pm and 4:30pm.
The lot in Oakridge was the site of an abandoned mill. Well – not quite abandoned, couple of maintenance people showed up around 9:30, peered curiously at the roustabouts hammering stakes for the tent. Mothballed is more accurate. Probably closed not more than five years ago, and though I doubt that it will ever open again people are pretending it will. The mill made Armstrong hard wood flooring. There was a kiln a few hundred yards away, and a little railroad track – now overgrown with blackberry tangles and spotted yellow purseglove – for carrying finished product to the main freight line a mile away.
Like so many towns hereabouts, Oakridge’s downtown proper is mostly deserted except for a couple of banks and the local Brewers Union:
Such commerce as there is clusters along the route Hwy 58 – the usual cluster of gas stations and fast food joint. I had my first Atomic Blizzard at the local DQ. (Why “DQ”? What was wrong with “Dairy Queen?”) It tasted horrible but did cool me off.
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