19 Years and Counting

[kevin_standlee]

19 years ago today on Portland Vintage Trolley #513, Lisa and I were married, underway somewhere along Burnside Boulevard in Portland. (I'd have to check the tape to have a better idea of the exact location.) This week we're apart because of commitments I have in the Bay Area. Lisa is considering what we should do next year this week. Alas, we cannot recreate our wedding-day journey (which we did on our first wedding anniversary) because the Portland Vintage Trolleys have been discontinued, and I'm unsure on where car 513 actually ended up.

(Cars 511/512 were sold to St. Louis. 514 operates on the Willamette Shore Trolley. 513 was also supposed to go there, but I don't know what happened to it.)

Comments

[timill]

Wiki thinks it moved:
"One year later, following the discontinuation of Vintage Trolley service in July 2014, a second replica-Council Crest streetcar, car 513, was moved to Lake Oswego, on September 8, 2014, and has yet to be restored to operation.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Shore_Trolley

Facebook seems to agree:

https://www.facebook.com/WillametteShoreTrolley/posts/728574930513044

Tim

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clearing that up. Lisa and I were members of the Oregon Electric Railway Museum (of which the Willamette Shore Trolley is a branch), but let our memberships lapse when we moved to Nevada.

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

Linda

[katster.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you and Lisa, Kevin, and may there be many more returns.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary! I look forward to learning what you and Lisa decide to do next year -- I love reading your rail (and related) adventures and I'm sure you'll come up with something especially fitting.

[garyomaha.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary to you and Lisa! Have you told the tale of Kuma Bear joining your family? Or has he been with Lisa longer than you have?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yep. travelswithkuma joined Lisa some years before she met me, when she was at a long-ago SeaPac ham radio convention.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I didn't know you were married in Portland, or that it was on a vintage trolley, or that Portland had a vintage trolley. And I go to Portland pretty frequently and have lived there in the past. Sounds like a very cool wedding venue.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary. And many many more.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

I've got a not-terribly-old picture of #513 somewhere, and if memory serves it was taken in the Lake Oswego barn.

Also, nineteen years? That can't be right. *grumbles, wanders off feeling old*

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Well, we had. The trolleys were very pretty. They've been replaced with larger and less pretty 'streetcars.'

[howeird]

Congrats!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Those I've ridden on.

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

You - you mean... you were living in SIN when we met?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!


- seriously, congrats , you guys :)