East Wing of Portland's Lloyd Center

Sometimes, a store in the Lloyd Center is my destination.  Sometimes (like a really HOT day), I just want to go where there is air conditioning, and I think of the Lloyd Center.  Sometimes, it is just on the way to wherever I’m going and sometimes I don’t see it at all.

Once you get inside, the Lloyd Center looks nice, neat, beautiful, fine, clean and I’d be willing to spend all my hard-earned money there (if I had any).  It’s Portland’s largest mall.  Nordstrom’s is at one end, Sears and Marshall’s at the other, Macy’s and Ross Dress-For-Less in the middle.  They have tile on the first floor, carpeting on the second, and the top floor is mostly businesses, so I never really looked.

There is the ice rink, of course.  That is covered by ice.

As “food courts” go?  The Lloyd Center has the best one I’ve ever seen.  Tables are generally clean.  There are a few places you’ve heard of like McDonald’s and Subway, a few chicken places you haven’t heard of that look generic and like they belong in a mall, one sit-down old-fashioned diner, and a movie theater with current movies.

To get inside, you have to be outside first.  Only one entrance looks neat and clean – the one with the “Coins in the Fountain.”  On the outside, the rest of the Lloyd Center looks dirty.  Evidently, rain doesn’t wash dirt away, but channels grime into different areas that become extremely filthy.

I’d fix that.  All it probably takes is a hose with a power-washer attachment on the end.  You can buy that on television.  The dirt looks especially bad when most of your parking is underground.  Underground parking lots are dark anyway.

The end where parking is NOT underground?  The walkway is okay.  That is the best thing I can say about it.  It looks gray, dirty and shabby.  There is an always open garage in the corner.  This is probably the major parking area for Marshall’s, one of the anchors for the mall.

If I had the power of suggestion(s), it would be to pick up the litter and clean the Lloyd Center on the outside.

Then, when I had a celebration (like a 50th birthday, for example) – I would call all the churches, the Boy Scouts, the Cub Scouts, the Brownies, Explorers, Camp Fire Girls, schools, day camps, summer camps, retirement centers, and everyone located nearby.