Frequent visitors to Hawthorne Avenue will recognize vendor Keith Montgomery, who sells the paper, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday through Friday, outside Powells Bookstore. “I’m always here during those times,” he says, “unless I have a prior engagement like a doc ...
9 Oct 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Alan chronicled Street Roots vendor Allen Bennett’s day as part of the Oregon Project Dayshoot+30, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the original Project Dayshoot which documented in pictures he lives of Oregonians on a single day. Allen carries his c ...
25 Sep 2013 - Alan Borrud
It was easy to pick out Lorry Clark when I went to meet him at his old selling spot at Northwest 11th Avenue and Lovejoy Street. A tall man with an easy posture and a big smile, Lorry could look down on the tops of the heads of most of the people who word ...
24 Sep 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Nick Sullivan has come a long way from his first day selling Street Roots. “At first it was scary,” says Nick about the experience. “But once I get out there and I have my Street Roots shirt on and I hold up my papers, I sort of relax and it always seems ...
11 Sep 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Customers rally to restore a vendor’s pearly whites It’s been months since Raymond Thornton has felt comfortable smiling. “With my teeth missing or infected all the time, I was always guarded with my smile,” says Thornton, who started vending newspapers f ...
13 Aug 2013 - Alex Zielinski
Street Roots vendor Mary Starr has the kind of dedication to family that many of us only wish we had. After the death of her husband five years ago, she left work to take care of sick family members. For her, the decision was an easy one. “I’d do anything ...
17 Jul 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Every day of every week, George Ellars wakes up, gets dressed, and goes out to sell Street Roots outside the Burnside door of Powell’s. He holds issues of the paper in a plastic case around his neck and, if it’s not raining, he’ll hold a copy in his hand ...
2 Jul 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
I was a little manic several springs back on the streets of a small Texas town called Mansfield. The police and I had been through several run-ins, which resulted in me landing in a Fort Worth mental hospital. Being a ward of the state scared me a bit, be ...
4 Jun 2013 - Hobo John
By Ann-Derrick Gaillot, Contributing Writer The Starbucks at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Oak Street attracts all kinds. Teenage boys fooling around with a video camera; in the corner two men with thick glasses and slick hair discuss television; a man in a ...
27 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Vendor column: Finding a caring community keeps this vendor standing tall Marlon Crump By Marlon Crump, Contributing Writer “Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscover ...
23 May 2012 - Street Roots