Alberta Street in Portland, Oregon

[Music Playing] Alberta street in Portland, Oregon. Tracy McDonald: This is the Alberta arts district in Portland, Oregon. It is centrally located in North East Portland and it definitely has a unique flare. [Music Playing] Alberta street is a great mix of really interesting business and people. It is filled with artist studios and galleries. There is a lot of really fun boutiques, there is a lot of great people on the streets, it has got a really wonderful multi-cultural atmosphere and it is just a fantastic pace to live. [Music Playing] Dana Gordino: I am Dana Gordino, and you are in Gordino gallery. [Music Playing] Tracy McDonald: Dana and Sel Gardino have had their gallery here since 1996. they helped to pioneer the last Thursday art work in 1997. Dana Gordino: It is the kind of thing where neighborhood people get together and they just put on their own theater for the sake of everybody else. [Music Playing] Tracy McDonald: Another really interesting and unique thing about this neighborhood is that inter mix will all the residences you find a lot of these store front churches. It is really nice that the African-American population of Alberta has been able to maintain the strong hold. The whole gentrification issue definitely is a topic of debate among the residence of this neighborhood. [Music Playing] This is the Kennedy school, it is a lovely little neighborhood establishment, it has a hotel, a restaurant, a movie theatre, musical venues, it offers yoga classes everything you can think off. The Kennedy school actually was an elementary school for 54 years, it lives in 1980 and in 1994 the Megmenement Brothers agreed to under take renovations and here it is, it is fantastic. [Music Playing] This is the soaking pool at the Kennedy’s school, best of all it is free for all residents of the neighborhood and it is located outside in this beautiful tropical setting and it is a great place to spend the rainy afternoon. So I am glad it is here because is rains a lot in Portland. [Music Playing] So right now I am standing in front of the Alberta street clown house, that people who live here are clowns, performers, cyclist, political activist, artist and really add an interesting flavor to the streets. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the clown house. It is pretty exciting during the summer because there is lots of circus performers who travel all over the country and Portland, when they come to Portland they come to the clown house and they will do a show here and they will stay for a while so there is always interesting happening. And so if ever you are in Portland you should come by and see us. [Music Playing] Dana Gordino: Dear Louis, your father is a butcher, your mother cuts the meat and you are the little weenie that runs around the street.