Portland Strip Clubs: Homeless … but never aimless
by exoticinportlandShe is swatting at the hair on her shoulders, folding at the waist over an empty recycling bin, strung out and oblivious. You watch her for several forlorn minutes until she stumbles out onto Killingsworth, forcing an eastbound TriMet bus to swerve into the westbound lane.
That’s when you flag down a Portland police squad car.
It’s 8:50 a.m. Friday morning.
And you are standing by the chained-link fence that surrounds the Community Transitional School.
After bouncing around town for years — old Washington High, St. Stephen Catholic Church, Mt. Tabor Presbyterian — the school for Portland’s homeless children has finally come to rest at a curious crossroads.
It’s hard against The Arbor, a run-down trailer park on Killingsworth. It’s across Cully from the Sugar Shack strip club and Video Visions, an adult theme park.