The Basement Bar Project
By Scott Ogle / GORPCORP
A photo project documenting unique home basement bars around Portland, OR.
One of my favorite things about our home in Portland's South Tabor neighborhood is the incredibly vibe-y, incredibly original 1960s basement bar. Over the years I've learned that many of the homes in the neighborhood were built with similar spaces - some have been preserved, others updated. I want to document as many of them as I can. This project is a love letter to the humble basement bar.
Why the basement bar?
To me they represent something that I fear we're at risk of losing - the sense of community, of opening your home as a gathering space, of physically coming together offline to talk and dance and laugh. Also, a lot of them are just really cool.
Do you have a basement bar in your Portland home? Would you be willing to let me come over for an hour to photograph it? Let's talk!
No matter what state your basement bar is in, I want to photograph it.
Thank you!