Strip poles and bookcases

I have now on more than one occasion had pleasure of walking the inner city of Portland and while there are a large number of homeless, bums and beggars the city is nice although square and corporate looking. It is not a tall city, no skyscrapers just some tall buildings. The architecture ranges from American box to Ecclectical Roman independence. Not the largest ranged but there is a time-difference.
The city is clean which I appreciate and the people mostly calm and friendly. There are two tent camps set up in the city but I did not see any of them. One is brought to Portland by the 99% of the Occupy movement and the other is a tent camp for paired homeless people since apparently most shelters are for only one gender or the other. Ethnically the city is mixed but there are so many Hispanic that the tram has announcements also in Spanish.
There are several book-stores and one of them is very famous for it's size. It is called Powell's and can be found here.
Portland is also known for it's many strip-joints. It is actually the city in the USofA with the most strip-joints per capita which is said to go hand in hand with another thing they lead: most churches per capita. I saw several strip-clubs and I also laughed when I saw the sign advertising 24h lap dance. Not that I thought that you would get one for 24 hours straight which would have been kind of tortureesq but rather knowing that you can not get useful things like food 24 hours a day in most places but here you will never be denied a lap dance.