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AUGUST 15, 2008 justout 15 illamette Financial Group, LLC W tucked into a wall and locked up tight (which they’re con sidering cracking open, just to see what’s inside); and the bathhouse’s infamous vintage Army Jeep, whose hard-wired lights still shone on the cum- stained floors when Daggett’s crew first cracked the club doors in late June. Letting some light in, a July 30 shot of the renovation in progress. But Daggett’s findings are only part of the unique chal retained a cabinet full of member and employee lenge his team faces in the planned six-month records sitting in company offices, Lawson said: renovation. How exactly does he plan to turn bare “That’s history. The building was sold a year and a rooms still reeking of amyl nitrate into luxury ac- half ago, and I will not comment further.” commodations? But that’s not all that Lawson, a longtime “Clean it and paint it. Replace all the glass, re Cascade AIDS Project donor and supporter, left furnish and recarpet the floors, patch the ceilings behind. “There were a lot of hypodermic needles,” and redo the sprinkler pipe, plumbing and elec Daggett says later on the tour, pointing out a water trical lines," he says matter-of-factly. The hardest jug containing a handful of yellowing used nee part so far? “Getting material out” in a building dles. “We found 100, 150 of them,” he continues, long void of light and clogged with dirt and dust, leaning down against a fourth floor wall to dem Daggett says. onstrate the way that drugged-up Club Portland If future patrons of the McMenamins hotel patrons would jam the needles into mattress sides and restaurant have any clue as to the recent or simply let them fall into the wall’s cracks. sordid history of the building in which they’re For his part, Lawson says that monitoring Club kicking back a cosmo or enjoying a luxury spa Portland members’ drug use on his business prem treatment—an 850-square-foot heated saltwater ises was not his responsibility and that the venue soaking pool is planned where those glory hole “had needle collection points all through the walls once stood—it will come from the chain’s building,” adding carefully curated historical that it was “CAP’s mementos and artwork that responsibility to will adorn the renovated keep those things space. clean.” Hills con Hills, the McMenamins firmed that needle historian, says the company collection points has commissioned staff and were discovered Portland artists to create throughout the club panels “to commemorate as renovation com the history of the area,” menced, in addition including its unique recent to the scores of used queer history as part of the needles scattered on Bumside Triangle. club floors, jabbed At the end of the tour, in mattress sides Daggett enters the exposed and found hidden in brick and beam open space cracks and crevices. of the first floor—the walls That was only between the former Club The Majestic Hotel in 1913, looking the beginning. Portland and Silverado hav northwest to Burnside. Daggett rattles off ing been knocked down to his team’s early excavation findings, like closets create an open street-level space for the planned restaurant (with wrap-around outdoor seating in nailed shut that—when opened—spilled out bags the works). Through a thick coat of floor dust, bursting with used condoms; X-rated “play toys” hanging from sprinkler heads; colorful hand- one can see the faint outline of what kxiks to be a trail of yellow stones. scrawled graffiti messages; a 2,000-pound safe “That was hidden by the Silverado stage, 1 guess,” Daggett says, shrugging his shoulders. Sure enough, right nearby, from where the lithe-bodied Silverado male entertainers once emerged, someone has scrawled this note in white ink on black paint: “We’re not in Kansas anymore.' © Together, let’s create a personalized strategy for your goals and dreams, whether ? 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