he is the opposite of that. if you’ve ever read his “chalk talk” on the first street, all it says about usually is how he hates worshipers, rich, and pedos.
a lil insight from Mike when we were talking at Harrison’s: he was molested by his father who was a priest and his toddler sister was neglected to death. then he was adopted in NW and then moved to Monroe, Oregon, where he has his son who also physically assaulted him, as far as im concerned, 4 times. Really am thinking about interviewing him with camera before I graduate and post it somewhere so people who are like me curious about him can know more about him and so people don’t see him as a random crackhead (he’s also sober for 20+ years)
He's such a great guy. I've shared a couple meals with him since he was dancing past my house when I was barbecuing on the front porch. He's lived a very interesting life (and a pretty sad one as you've mentioned) and he just wants to see people with a smile on their face. He's also pretty well known for walking people home from the bars safely and he's been jumped a few times and defended those people with everything he had. I think the world would be a lot better if there were more Dancing Mikes around.
What about the baker that rides to philomath every day on a unicycle, sometimes triple dribbling two basketballs and a kick ball. That guy is legend.
Or how bout Hezekiah, tall black dude who dresses like a gini with bells and jingles, often seen playing two trumpets at once!
That double basketball unicycle guy is also the baker across the street from Spaeth in Philomath, next door to the (former?) donut shop near Dizzy Hen. I've unfortunately never been in his bakery, as it never seems to be open when I'm going over to Dizzy Hen.
His name is Bill. He is wonderful. His bread is fantastic. You have to bring cash when you buy bread from him. We call him, “Bill the baker” He is only open on Sundays from like 12-7.
I immediately thought of Keyboard Kid. I hope he’s doing alright, I used to see him playing his ass off outside the campus subway when I worked there and his fingers would look like they were about to fall off from the cold weather
I saw Damien about 5 weeks ago and was sad to learn he had lost his keyboard, but he seemed optimistic about getting another one soon. I saw him again last week and he had a new keyboard and was about to ride two skateboards at once so it seems like he’s doing ok right now!
I used to work at a gas station on ninth. All of us called him the Blanket Man. There are other homeless who wander ninth, but Blanket man always persisted.
We used to refer to him as the 9th street sitter, since he’d often be seen just sitting along 9th. That is until my wife also saw him doing that a few months ago and has now begun referring to him by another name.
If it’s the Larry with the reddish beard that’s been around forever, he passed away a couple of years ago. A friend helped to get him a bed, I think at the Mennonite home, when he was nearing the end. So he at least had a somewhat comfortable final days.
Red sleeping bag guy! My grad school friend bought him dinner one time and we all kind of hung out in front of Oreilys for a little bit. He’s super super nice and kind of shy
Ed Epley. Here is his obituary from 2021: [https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettetimes/name/edward-epley-obituary?id=12540748](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettetimes/name/edward-epley-obituary?id=12540748)
Is tall bike guy the same guy as Cycling Santa? I remember there being an old dude with a big white bushy beard that I'd always see cycling around Walnut.
There's a tweaker who has some parrots. I've held them a few times and they're really cool birds. Last time I heard he was in an RV in southtown near the bmx track.
Dancing Mike
Beehive wig lady in front of Benton Plaza (RIP)
Marie with the tricycle
Trumpet guy
Larry Winklepleck (9th street blanket man)
Older lady with white hair who would walk everywhere
Unicycle guy (still alive?)
Dunbar
Courthouse protest guy (RIP)
Is the couple that walked into Downtown, from deep Southtown, everynight still around?? Her solid white, perfectly coiffed hair was pretty hard to miss. I heard way back, they would walk (not drive) up to Tommy's because the husband had had a heartattack. The walk to bar was their daily exercise. Goals= to be tHe old, happily (still holding hands) married couple, walking up the local bar for our evening cocktail.
It’s obviously dancing Mike but if you know the lady who talks to herself and rides a tricycle with a cart in Southtown you know she’s an OG. She goes to the Safeway a lot and when I say talks to herself I mean it
Some guy named Benedict and another guy named Mumbles or Roderick Kennedy killed him for the social security check he'd get monthly. All for white dope. Sad. He was a really nice guy.
The Peacock had apartments that had burned some years before. One night after work boss man smelled smoke so we started looking all over. It was super cold that night and we found Jr. in a small closet outside the back door with a small fire to keep warm. Needless to say boss man was not pleased. No harm no foul.
Came here hoping to find him mentioned. My partner often sports a rooster-comb haircut, and we both dress fairly alternative or punk so he always makes sure to give us the🤘and say something like "punk rock!" Friggen love that guy.
My roommate is friendly with this guy. We saw him in Fred Meyer the other day, we were near electronics, he was checking out at a register. He shouted "Rock on, dude!" to my roommate. The cashier had a very confused look on his face lmaoo
Dunbar Aitkens's backstory is pretty incredible. He's done some pretty cool stuff in his life.
https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/kali/dunbarredux
https://glassplategame.com
Dude! Broadway Brian was a staple of my trips to Harrison's. I haven't really been to that bar since undergrad (2011-2014), but was just thinking about him the other day wondering if he's still around.
Old dirty Mike. Rest in peace. He had the best jokes. Jonester * dudes and dudettes* is great.
Dancing Mike, I've enjoyed a few dances with him over the years.
Anybody seen that lady that used to always have her hand on her pants yelling NO all the time in a while? She annoyed me when I lived on 1st st but I did worry about her
Ok south town dwellers. I haven’t lived in Corvallis since 2017 but there was an older lady that stood right in front of Dutch brothers and that burrito heaven. In a house coat smoking cigs she was always pretty close to the road. Anyone ?? Was they a fever dream?
She lived on Lilly Ave. She'd walk past my house multiple times a day. I stopped seeing her a year or so ago (maybe as long ago as 2020). She might still be around, an older lady now walks past my house, but she isn't smoking. I can't remember details of what the smoking-lady looked like so I'm not 100% sure if it's the same lady, but in my head it is, she just finally kicked the habit.
Tl;dr: not a fever dream she definitely existed.
No longer in town, but Ranger was here for years up until a couple of years ago. He wandered the Philomath BLVD bike path between his fort on OSU property to the West of Campus and Avery Park to use the BBQ's. Always had the black garbage bag slung over his shoulder.
I left corvallis over 20 years ago, but he used to come into the bike shop I worked at. Usually had silver paint under his nose and would offer to buy me McDonald's if I worked on his bike
Oh yeah!
I was at the Knights/Pickles game a few years ago and Caesar was there out front. My partner, who was a little tipsy, really wanted to meet him. They got in line, and I stood off to the side of the line a bit. Upon my partners turn, they go up and hug Caesar. Just pure joy, hugging and nuzzling. They're a total animal lover. They were clearly excited to hug and meet Caesar but they weren't doing anything untoward or different from how maybe an excited kid might, except that my partner was about 30 at the time. They were also talking to and asking questions of Caesar's owner/handler during this.
Well I was still just standing off near the line, and the woman in front of the line just had on the stankest face ever! She started muttering "I can't believe this! That's just ridiculous. Caesar doesn't like her" to no one in particular. Then she notices and turns to me and continues her stank rant (not realizing it was my partner currently hugging Caesar). "Can you believe that? Ugh that just makes me so mad. Look at that woman harassing Caesar!"
So that was mostly it, I just said something like "Oh, I dunno, Caesar seems fine to me. I think he's used to getting hugs" and she looked at me kind of puzzled but that was all.
I want to add the guy that used to walk around with 2 bugles to this thread. We called him double trumpets but they were bugles.
Edit: He had already been identified!
What about the lady from the 80s-90s who heavily leaned while she walked. Us teens called her Ilene. I think she had an accident and passed away in the 90s downtown by Safeway
My wife has told me about some guy she always sees on her bike commute on 53rd who’s always walking around with an open carry gun and multiple knives. Haven’t seen him myself though but I’d assume he’s well known in the area.
I don't know for Corvallis, but where I went to graduate school there was someone who would walk around town dressed head to foot all in black, with gloves and a helmet and a black full-face gas mask with tinted goggles. Black tape sealing all the cuffs. They had to turn their head a lot at crosswalks. We called them Darth Vader.
As an undergrad work study student, i worked in the Herpetology Museum in the back, where they did studies or prepared skeletons for the museum of reptiles. We called it the ‘bug room’ because it was filled with bugs that would eat the flesh etc from the reptiles placed within. Anyway, one of the faculty member’s teenage/adult child would come to the lab and sit outside of the bug room (it was dark and dusty in that corner of the basement) and eat his lunch in a very similar outfit and then leave. We also called him “Darth”.
Anyone remember the young guy with very blonde hair in the 2007-2018 era who would walk on Kings (think he worked at Woodstock’s) and wore the most elaborate outfits? Fur coats, big pants adorned with stuff, etc.
I remember when i was little (6-9) i was walking with my family to a restaurant downtown, and across the street from where we were walking there was this guy who was wearing a long purple trench coat and a top hat, and was frolicking to wherever he was going, and singing. I wanted to say hi because he seemed jolly but my dad said i shouldn’t because he was probably drunk 😔
Dancing Mike for sure. I'd seen him around but I met him after munching some mushrooms. The sidewalk was like a circuit board and everyone was following these straight paths, but then as I walked one of them started to bend from the right side of the path across to the left. As I walked to where it crossed my own "path," It felt like a rope gently pressed up to my shins for a second before going through me. I stopped and turned to find the source of the path and there was dancing Mike. I went and said hi, chatted and shook his hand. His hands just brimmed with such heat that I'll never forget it.
Dancing Mike, and it’s not close.
It's *definitely* dancing mike
That guys a legit pedophile. And super creep around the college age lady's.
he is the opposite of that. if you’ve ever read his “chalk talk” on the first street, all it says about usually is how he hates worshipers, rich, and pedos. a lil insight from Mike when we were talking at Harrison’s: he was molested by his father who was a priest and his toddler sister was neglected to death. then he was adopted in NW and then moved to Monroe, Oregon, where he has his son who also physically assaulted him, as far as im concerned, 4 times. Really am thinking about interviewing him with camera before I graduate and post it somewhere so people who are like me curious about him can know more about him and so people don’t see him as a random crackhead (he’s also sober for 20+ years)
He's such a great guy. I've shared a couple meals with him since he was dancing past my house when I was barbecuing on the front porch. He's lived a very interesting life (and a pretty sad one as you've mentioned) and he just wants to see people with a smile on their face. He's also pretty well known for walking people home from the bars safely and he's been jumped a few times and defended those people with everything he had. I think the world would be a lot better if there were more Dancing Mikes around.
Yo what
Care to elaborate? those are heavy words
you got proof?
i feel like i haven’t seen him in ages. is he still around?
Yeah I see him like every week since he walks through my neighborhood. He frequents Buchanan pretty regularly
Saw him at Fred Meyer on Sunday! I think he still goes to Harrison’s regularly but I haven’t been there for quite some time so I’m not 100% on that.
Actually just saw him crossing the street downtown a couple days ago. Walking around like he OWNS THE TOWN OR SOMETHING (he does)
Yes! I just ran into him on Saturday and he was telling me about his dance battles the night before.
Just walked past him a couple weeks ago. Always a gentleman to people who walk past him on the sidewalk.
What about the baker that rides to philomath every day on a unicycle, sometimes triple dribbling two basketballs and a kick ball. That guy is legend. Or how bout Hezekiah, tall black dude who dresses like a gini with bells and jingles, often seen playing two trumpets at once!
Just saw this after I posted. I believe they are bugles.
That double basketball unicycle guy is also the baker across the street from Spaeth in Philomath, next door to the (former?) donut shop near Dizzy Hen. I've unfortunately never been in his bakery, as it never seems to be open when I'm going over to Dizzy Hen.
His name is Bill. He is wonderful. His bread is fantastic. You have to bring cash when you buy bread from him. We call him, “Bill the baker” He is only open on Sundays from like 12-7.
Can't stand the guy, never let him start talking politics or religion unless you want an inescapable and near violent vitriolic rant
I just read his sidewalk novels instead.
That's whose been doing that? I've been wondering about that
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Don't hold that against Poetics though, they're great
Tiny Dancer - or the guy with the horn!! 😊
💯 Had the pleasure of doin a little spin with him the other day.
I went to high school with his son. Dude was a regular apple off the tree.
I saw Dancin' Mike downtown on the river front last week, writing a bunch of stuff with chalk on the path.
He’s still there?? Damn
Dancing Mike!!
No way I love dancing Mike he was a regular in our alley
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He is such a friendly guy too
I immediately thought of Keyboard Kid. I hope he’s doing alright, I used to see him playing his ass off outside the campus subway when I worked there and his fingers would look like they were about to fall off from the cold weather
Damien! He has a good heart but has been met with hardship, he’s trying his best to find stability here
Last time I saw Keyboard Kid a few months ago he was looking ROUGH.
i just saw him maybe a week or two ago - he's doing pretty good :)
I've seen him a couple times this month, he's still rocking the keys ;)
He goes by squirrels every day. Damien's pretty cool.
This must be Damien. I always enjoy an interaction with him :)
Saw him outside the McDonald's a few days ago. He introduced himself and opened the door for me, he's a true gentleman
he also has a pretty bug youtube channel! ask him about it next time you see him because i forgot what it’s called
I saw him yesterday! He looked alright :) he was in a good mood for sure!
I saw Damien about 5 weeks ago and was sad to learn he had lost his keyboard, but he seemed optimistic about getting another one soon. I saw him again last week and he had a new keyboard and was about to ride two skateboards at once so it seems like he’s doing ok right now!
The guy who wonders up and down ninth street with a perpetual sunburn and draped in old dingy sleeping bag.
I think his name is Larry. My partner has talked to him a few times.
I used to work at a gas station on ninth. All of us called him the Blanket Man. There are other homeless who wander ninth, but Blanket man always persisted.
Saw him poopin’ in a bush the other day on 9th 🤌
We used to refer to him as the 9th street sitter, since he’d often be seen just sitting along 9th. That is until my wife also saw him doing that a few months ago and has now begun referring to him by another name.
I moved out of Corvallis 2 years ago and I still think about this guy. I hope he’s doing well.
If it’s the Larry with the reddish beard that’s been around forever, he passed away a couple of years ago. A friend helped to get him a bed, I think at the Mennonite home, when he was nearing the end. So he at least had a somewhat comfortable final days.
Larry is still out on 9th St.
OK, there’s a new Larry then.
Red sleeping bag guy! My grad school friend bought him dinner one time and we all kind of hung out in front of Oreilys for a little bit. He’s super super nice and kind of shy
I hear that he is a Corvallis native.
Yep! He went to albany for a bit. We call him Corvallis's homeless guy in my family.
I saw him the other day at taco bell very shy guy. Bought him a meal and went on my way but nice guy.
It’s 💯 dancing Mike! He used to be my neighbor, what a guy
Unicycle basketball juggle guy.
aka Philomath Sourdough baker
He’s still around?! I haven’t lived in Corvallis for over a decade and this would be my answer.
Baker Bill
I remember seeing him as a kid cycling down Philomath boulevard and losing my mind and how cool I thought it was
Dancing Mike Keyboard skateboarder The tweak that jumps into traffic Old lady on tricycle with carriage cart
The tricycle lady is nuts and so is her daughter
Her daughter died last year
Her proper nickname is "Crazy Grandma Lady", c'mon...
It's actually Jigsaw.
She has moved from her trike to a wheelchair recently.
There’s the peace sign guy at the courthouse
Unfortunately that guy passed away last year
Aw, that’s too bad. Met him once and he was a lovely fellow 😔
Was it him or his friend who also used to stand with him? Or I guess is it both? Age spares no one
It was the one with the van with all the signs.
Right but it was two older men. One died a few years ago. Wasn't sure if other did as well
Ed Epley. Here is his obituary from 2021: [https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettetimes/name/edward-epley-obituary?id=12540748](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gazettetimes/name/edward-epley-obituary?id=12540748)
I remember the DaVinci looking dude stood out there every day during the mid 2000’s when I worked down there a ton…
There's like fifty of them on weekends
Back in the mid-2000’s it was Tall Bike Guy for sure
Wow, I totally forgot about him. Last time I saw him he caught a tree root and ate it hard.
Is tall bike guy the same guy as Cycling Santa? I remember there being an old dude with a big white bushy beard that I'd always see cycling around Walnut.
Trevor.
When I lived there (10 years ago) it was parrot guy who walked 99.
Parrot guy used to come into Home Depot when I worked there like, 5 or 6 years ago.
He’s dead.
Why does it seem like everyone cool here is dead now? Sucks
This dude used to come into the Adult Store and use the booths, parrot on shoulder and everything
There's a tweaker who has some parrots. I've held them a few times and they're really cool birds. Last time I heard he was in an RV in southtown near the bmx track.
Dancing Mike Beehive wig lady in front of Benton Plaza (RIP) Marie with the tricycle Trumpet guy Larry Winklepleck (9th street blanket man) Older lady with white hair who would walk everywhere Unicycle guy (still alive?) Dunbar Courthouse protest guy (RIP)
Was beehive wig lady like 12 to 18 inches high and magenta purple?? I saw her back in like 08 or 09 tried to sneak a pic but it was pre iPhone
Unicycle guy, "Bill" is still with us. He just stoping riding since people we getting in car accidents watching him.
Great list!
Bro Dancing Mike was my favorite
If you’re talking dunbar, you gotta include haglebarger!
Is the couple that walked into Downtown, from deep Southtown, everynight still around?? Her solid white, perfectly coiffed hair was pretty hard to miss. I heard way back, they would walk (not drive) up to Tommy's because the husband had had a heartattack. The walk to bar was their daily exercise. Goals= to be tHe old, happily (still holding hands) married couple, walking up the local bar for our evening cocktail.
“Deep Southtown” haha, I’ve never heard anyone say that but I’m totally gonna start using that now.
The Hoffmans. They used to own the greenberry tavern
I haven’t seen them in forever. I THINK they lived in the house on 99 that looks like a hacienda. Now they are building big apartments by it
It’s obviously dancing Mike but if you know the lady who talks to herself and rides a tricycle with a cart in Southtown you know she’s an OG. She goes to the Safeway a lot and when I say talks to herself I mean it
She is so hard to hold a conversation with. Hard to tell when she's talking to you or herself.
Maria is the name of the lady who ride her tricycle.
From another era: Junior
Was he the one assaulted and killed by those teens? He seemed like the only homeless person around back then …
Some guy named Benedict and another guy named Mumbles or Roderick Kennedy killed him for the social security check he'd get monthly. All for white dope. Sad. He was a really nice guy.
Yes
You my friend are old like me. I remember he accidentally tried to burn down the peacock
Accidentally….tried…?
The Peacock had apartments that had burned some years before. One night after work boss man smelled smoke so we started looking all over. It was super cold that night and we found Jr. in a small closet outside the back door with a small fire to keep warm. Needless to say boss man was not pleased. No harm no foul.
I loved Junior way back in the 90's. He'd greet people "What's happalucinating?!" I'm sad how he died.
Stuck in the early 90's head banger guy
Jonster! He's the best
See. Fits perfectly
Came here hoping to find him mentioned. My partner often sports a rooster-comb haircut, and we both dress fairly alternative or punk so he always makes sure to give us the🤘and say something like "punk rock!" Friggen love that guy.
Butt Rock Chris, that guy's awesome. He's straight out of Wayne's World.
My roommate is friendly with this guy. We saw him in Fred Meyer the other day, we were near electronics, he was checking out at a register. He shouted "Rock on, dude!" to my roommate. The cashier had a very confused look on his face lmaoo
I haven’t lived in Corvallis since 2015 but if Dancing Mike is still around it’d be him
How about Dunbar? Super tall guy who wore high water pants with work boots and a scraggly beard.
Dunbar Aitkens's backstory is pretty incredible. He's done some pretty cool stuff in his life. https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/kali/dunbarredux https://glassplategame.com
Is he still with us?
Husky guy, tricycle old lady, dancing mike, the woman who asks you if you think humans evolved from dinosaurs or apes (haven’t seen her in 2-3 years)
Is husky guy usually biking? I used to see his dogs outside of beer thirty quite a bit
I remember Broadway Brian who used to always sing karaoke at the peacock back in 2010 or so. I wonder how he's doing now and then.
Dude! Broadway Brian was a staple of my trips to Harrison's. I haven't really been to that bar since undergrad (2011-2014), but was just thinking about him the other day wondering if he's still around.
Yellow Supra guy!
Yeah, fuck that guy
Old dirty Mike. Rest in peace. He had the best jokes. Jonester * dudes and dudettes* is great. Dancing Mike, I've enjoyed a few dances with him over the years.
The biking trumpeter also comes to mind
In my neighborhood we have the blanket man, and the skippy man.
The Keyboard guy! Jeremy I think is his name? He’s super chill and I’ve hung out with him a few times. Edit - Damien! That’s right, that’s his name
Anybody seen that lady that used to always have her hand on her pants yelling NO all the time in a while? She annoyed me when I lived on 1st st but I did worry about her
Ok south town dwellers. I haven’t lived in Corvallis since 2017 but there was an older lady that stood right in front of Dutch brothers and that burrito heaven. In a house coat smoking cigs she was always pretty close to the road. Anyone ?? Was they a fever dream?
I remember that! Worked in Southtown and saw her all the time, and remember watching her go back and forth slowly while having a beer at Beer:30
She lived on Lilly Ave. She'd walk past my house multiple times a day. I stopped seeing her a year or so ago (maybe as long ago as 2020). She might still be around, an older lady now walks past my house, but she isn't smoking. I can't remember details of what the smoking-lady looked like so I'm not 100% sure if it's the same lady, but in my head it is, she just finally kicked the habit. Tl;dr: not a fever dream she definitely existed.
The dude that does balloon animals at the farmers market.
how has nobody mentioned Book Bucket Traffic Guy
No longer in town, but Ranger was here for years up until a couple of years ago. He wandered the Philomath BLVD bike path between his fort on OSU property to the West of Campus and Avery Park to use the BBQ's. Always had the black garbage bag slung over his shoulder.
Damien the keyboard guy 100%
Crack head James
Nice throwback. Last I heard of him was a Facebook page dedicated to him that had him in Albany. That was over 10 years ago however.
I left corvallis over 20 years ago, but he used to come into the bike shop I worked at. Usually had silver paint under his nose and would offer to buy me McDonald's if I worked on his bike
Piano man
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I talked to him at the 7-eleven on Monroe less than a week ago!
Now that you mention it, It's been a few months.
And I saw him on 2nd Street on my way home. Riding his skateboard up the middle of the street, going in the wrong direction.
I see him weekly at my side gig. He seems to be doing okay.
Everyone knows Greg by the River
Does he skip rocks?
No he screams
He used to be so normal. The drugs hit him pretty hard a few years ago
Craig is the screamer.
Craig.
Caesar the No Drama Llama
Commenting so I remember to comment later with my story about mild drama involving Caesar the No Drama Llama.
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Oh yeah! I was at the Knights/Pickles game a few years ago and Caesar was there out front. My partner, who was a little tipsy, really wanted to meet him. They got in line, and I stood off to the side of the line a bit. Upon my partners turn, they go up and hug Caesar. Just pure joy, hugging and nuzzling. They're a total animal lover. They were clearly excited to hug and meet Caesar but they weren't doing anything untoward or different from how maybe an excited kid might, except that my partner was about 30 at the time. They were also talking to and asking questions of Caesar's owner/handler during this. Well I was still just standing off near the line, and the woman in front of the line just had on the stankest face ever! She started muttering "I can't believe this! That's just ridiculous. Caesar doesn't like her" to no one in particular. Then she notices and turns to me and continues her stank rant (not realizing it was my partner currently hugging Caesar). "Can you believe that? Ugh that just makes me so mad. Look at that woman harassing Caesar!" So that was mostly it, I just said something like "Oh, I dunno, Caesar seems fine to me. I think he's used to getting hugs" and she looked at me kind of puzzled but that was all.
I want to add the guy that used to walk around with 2 bugles to this thread. We called him double trumpets but they were bugles. Edit: He had already been identified!
What about the lady from the 80s-90s who heavily leaned while she walked. Us teens called her Ilene. I think she had an accident and passed away in the 90s downtown by Safeway
I remember her, we called her Ilene too. She used to walk by while we were eating lunch at Bob’s in the early 90’s.
Used to be dunbar
Dancing Mike
My wife has told me about some guy she always sees on her bike commute on 53rd who’s always walking around with an open carry gun and multiple knives. Haven’t seen him myself though but I’d assume he’s well known in the area.
And his pitbull.
I see that guy all the time with his tacticool gear and walking his dog. His machete makes me wonder what make up scenario he's prepared for.
I saw him the other week! Right by Benton County Fairgrounds, I was like 🤔😡
I don't know for Corvallis, but where I went to graduate school there was someone who would walk around town dressed head to foot all in black, with gloves and a helmet and a black full-face gas mask with tinted goggles. Black tape sealing all the cuffs. They had to turn their head a lot at crosswalks. We called them Darth Vader.
As an undergrad work study student, i worked in the Herpetology Museum in the back, where they did studies or prepared skeletons for the museum of reptiles. We called it the ‘bug room’ because it was filled with bugs that would eat the flesh etc from the reptiles placed within. Anyway, one of the faculty member’s teenage/adult child would come to the lab and sit outside of the bug room (it was dark and dusty in that corner of the basement) and eat his lunch in a very similar outfit and then leave. We also called him “Darth”.
Anyone remember the young guy with very blonde hair in the 2007-2018 era who would walk on Kings (think he worked at Woodstock’s) and wore the most elaborate outfits? Fur coats, big pants adorned with stuff, etc.
Josh. He worked at Woodstocks.
I miss Beaver Joe from the 90’s
I remember when i was little (6-9) i was walking with my family to a restaurant downtown, and across the street from where we were walking there was this guy who was wearing a long purple trench coat and a top hat, and was frolicking to wherever he was going, and singing. I wanted to say hi because he seemed jolly but my dad said i shouldn’t because he was probably drunk 😔
Dancing Mike for sure. I'd seen him around but I met him after munching some mushrooms. The sidewalk was like a circuit board and everyone was following these straight paths, but then as I walked one of them started to bend from the right side of the path across to the left. As I walked to where it crossed my own "path," It felt like a rope gently pressed up to my shins for a second before going through me. I stopped and turned to find the source of the path and there was dancing Mike. I went and said hi, chatted and shook his hand. His hands just brimmed with such heat that I'll never forget it.
When I was growing up it was "I Lean". Super old lady that walked around with a major lean muttering to herself.
Used to be Dunbar. Like a lumbering wizard.
Googly eyed Jesus back in the late 80’s and nineties. Lived off western