Talk:Ladd's Addition, Portland, Oregon

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[edit] Eight or ten blocks?

When I saw the Ladd's Addition size changed from 8x8 to 8x10 blocks, I was a little confused; could I really have miscounted the blocks between Hawthorne and Division? As it turns out, no, I didn't. I live slightly east of Ladd's Addition, and when I walk to the Safeway on Hawthorne I do indeed find eight blocks between it and Division -- however, on the west side of Ladd's Addition there are ten blocks between the two streets! This is typical of Portland's casual understanding of grids and straight lines, but complicates description. Who wants to read that it's a rectangle longer on one side than on the other three? I suggest that the least confusing approach is to just leave it as 8x10 blocks; this is not exactly correct, but is close enough for most purposes. Wyvern 10:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture of Alley

It's nice to have an illustration on this page, but that's a very dark picture. I suggest we find something, well, better illuminated (I'd happily do it myself if I had a digital camera at hand). For example, a picture of the neighborhood from the air (such as this one [1]) would be useful. A view of the green spaces or a suburban street might be nice local color. Wyvern 09:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

yeah this picture does nothing to inform the reader about ladd's addition.

[edit] Neighborhood links

Now that I'm looking at this page again, I think it would be nice to have a list of neighborhood related weblinks if there are enough. I'll call three links 'enough,' purely arbitrarily, and start with the St. Philip Neri website: http://www.stphilipneripdx.org/ What else in Ladd's Addition has a website? Wyvern 09:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The picture

Yeah, I was looking for another picture, especially an above view of the 'hood. But it was hard to find one that was free use. Although I do think that the picture that's up shows a good view of what many of us portlanders see when we get lost in the vortex late at night. --Jacobtrosen 22:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A new picture

I've snapped a few digital pictures of the area, and the one that seems most suitable is this one. It's pretty illustrative of the traffic circle, although kind of big at 1024x768 and 278kb. What do the other Wikipedians think? Wyvern (talk) 02:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, you can see it on the main page now. I didn't do that yesterday as I was having formatting trouble, but everything seems fine. Wyvern (talk) 18:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
It looks a bit dark - now it's a little sunnier I might go snap some more appealing looking ones... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.224.227.88 (talk) 23:32, 10 May 2008 (UTC)