Just two years ago, it seemed like Joe’s was a goner — something about the roof being in shambles and potentially collapsing on the place and killing everybody and blah blah blah. But like a phoenix rising from a coffee can full of butts, the NW Portland institution reopened its doors and, well, it was as if nothing changed, including the stale smoke smell that’s permeated the beaten-up benches, the ever-occupied pool table, and the extra-long bar that wraps from the diner-like front of the house to the cavernous back and houses everybody from the blue-collar day drinkers who just finished third shift to the vintage-collared hipsters who just finished no shift, because, well, hipsters. It’s a snapshot of old Portland in an ever-evolving cityscape, a time capsule of a city’s past and present. And when drinks are this stiff, well, you might need a time capsule to help you remember your time in Joe’s.

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