The building seen here, now host to Biwa and other small businesses, is also the former site of the Pine Street Theatre (later the paramount music club LaLuna). The PST has had some recent attention due to being the location where a set by Bleach-era Nirvana was recorded (and released for the first time on a 20 year anniversary deluxe edition). Though it may seem calm--even placid-- here, this was once the happening spot of SE, tailoring to the needs of fans of everything from early alternative (mid-80s Sonic Youth) to grunge to hip hop (there was a notorious shooting outside a Cool Nutz concert that prompted a police officer to declare the venue could avoid problems by "not having hip hop shows"). I may have come to Portland a decade or so too late.
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