2008 Santacon Updates: North Portland, Downtown, Hillsboro
December 1, 2008 — PDXPIPELINE
It appears that even though the official Santacon will be in Hillsboro (seriously, Hillsboro, wtf?), many Portlanders are seemingly not into roaming suburban strip malls in their Santa outfits and will be holding things down in the PDX. Specifically, an alternate Santacon crew will have an event in North Portland–The NoPDX Anticon.
You can help gentrify North Portland with white Santas at their website here(that was for you MD).
Also, if you like the old fashioned, possibly police-actioned Santacon, many people are still meeting at the Skidmore fountain.
Details (after jump):
Downtown SantaCon: this is a pub crawl not related to Cacophony Society. Since there was very little or no information about Portland SantaCon this year and there are a number of people that wanted to go downtown instead of Hillsboro or North Portland we put together this schedule.
Schedule subject to change.
| Time | Location | Max Stop | Max Arrival Time |
| 12-12:30pm | Skidmore Fountain | Old Town/Chinatown | 11:58am |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Ash Street 225 SW Ash St. | Old Town/Chinatown | 1:21pm |
| 1:45-2:45pm | Jax's 862 SW 2nd Ave. | Pioneer Square | 1:36pm |
| 3-4:00pm | Greek Cuisina 404 SW Washington St. | Pioneer Square | 2:51pm |
| 4:15-5:15pm | Kelly's 426 SW Washington St. | Pioneer Square | 4:06pm |
| 5:30-6:30pm | MoMo 725 SW 10th Ave. | Pioneer Square | 5:21pm |
| 6:45-7:45pm | Mc Menamins Ringler's Pub‎ 1332 W Burnside | Pioneer Square | 6:28pm |
| 8-9:00pm | The Matador 1967 W Burnside | Goose Hollow | 7:58pm |
| 9:15 – 10:15pm | Marathon Taverna 1735 W Burnside St | Goose Hollow | 9:13pm |
| 10:30-12pm | Cheerfull Bullpen 1730 SW Taylor | Goose Hollow | 10:28pm & 12:14am |
December 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm
That’s funny. I see several bars that vowed to never allow santa in again after the thousands of $$ in damage santa caused last Santacon, which is the main reason it got moved out of downtown in the first place. It would be worth going in street clothes just to watch the fools get arrested who are dumb enough to show up downtown dressed as santa.
December 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Do you REALLY think Santacon plans to stay in Hillsboro? Or roam around strip malls? Use your brains, these folk running it ain’t exactly new at it.
December 1, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Of COURSE, the real Santacon is in Hillsboro. Clearly, the Cacophony people would never pull a massive prank, would they? …or WOULD they?
December 1, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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Ghandi
December 2, 2008 at 3:53 am
Addendum to the downtown episode:
Between Kelly’s and Momo’s, stop at the Church of Scientology by 5:15. There will be, let’s say, a special surprise. 709 SW Salmon.
December 3, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Um of course they would trick. I’m joining NoPo seriously the burbs are too sprawled out for Santa, and crappy bars. Plus hey meeting under the @$$ of Mr Bunion sounds like a great time to me. And really a list of what’s going to happen?? Come on the whole point is following the crowd not knowing where the night will take you.
December 4, 2008 at 11:12 am
This must be the ULTIMATE Santarchy scheme–confusing ourselves!
Maybe it’s to throw off the popo….I’m all for that, but we still need a starting point… like the last zombie walk; 15 minutes after the walk began, zombies wondered off in all directions, kinda lost the entire zombie mob affect, it just deteriorated to wondering people in bad makeup…
December 4, 2008 at 3:22 pm
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December 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm
What makes anyone think that the police aren’t going to show up in North Portland as well? They have the internets too, you know.
I’ll be out at the “Official” Santacon in Hillsboro. The organizers have done right by Santa in the past, they seem the best bet to prevent catastrophe.
December 5, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Ignore my last posting…I was just emailed another date and route…I give up.
I am just going to put on my santa suit, get drunk, drop my pants and press my boobs against the windows of the Scientology church, drink more, yell “ho” at everyone, drink more, hump a streetlamp, drink more, challenge the dancers at Mary’s for a strip-off, drink more, spray paint a white silouette of my bloated self on the sidewalk, lay in it and take a nap…
and to all, a good night.
December 5, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Downtown is where da nasties are gonna be at, and we gonna party
-Santalicious
December 5, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I would love to see your boobs! But in NoPo!
December 6, 2008 at 8:22 am
I think I am going to do NoPo depending on what I see as I drive through downtown when I get off work.
December 7, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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December 8, 2008 at 12:35 am
Alright, you may have missed the SantaCon, but you can still enjoy pictures! This is a slew of shots from North Portland.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lukewisher/NOPDXANTICON#
December 9, 2008 at 10:53 am
Hello all, I know that this is a long shot- however I lost a silver sony digital camera at the downtown Santacon. I lost it at either Blitz or Boxes, if anyone accidently picked it up please let me know. Thanks!!! Had a blast!!!
December 14, 2008 at 12:51 am
Just got back from the Saturday the 13th Santacon- it was the sorryest one ever! The”coordinator” sucked; poorly organized and little turnout.
I hear it’s his last one. Good. Get a job at Starbucks .