Michael Cushman:
CLASS OF 1969
Roosevelt High SchoolClass of 1969
Portland, OR
Vernon Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Portland, OR
Linnton Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Portland, OR
Michael's Story
Michael is from Portland, Oregon. Michael's schools include Roosevelt High School, Linnton Elementary School, Vernon Elementary School. Michael later attended PCC Sylvania. Michael works(ed) at Self Employed (Business).
Worked as a pro photographer out of high school and collage for about six years. Starved but saw America from stem to stern. Then I had an opportunity to become a “roughneck”, or in other parlance, an operating engineer (fancy for heavy equipment operator). Made good money but it was going to kill me if I didn’t find something else. Finally I took an interest in neon glass blowing for the electric sign trade. I am self taught and have now been doing that on a wholesale level to full service sign companies around Oregon and Washington for close to forty years now. It’s fair to say that I’m at the top of my game at that. Since precious few people do that any longer I am in demand and my customers won...Expand for more
’t let me retire.
I’ve been married several times. I wont admit to how many, except to say “often”. As a much younger man variety was the spice of life. Regrets? I have a few.
As a young boy I took an interest in leather craft. Throughout my life I have bought tools and machines of all kinds in support of that interest. About twenty years ago, I began selling leather goods at the Portland Saturday Market. I have narrowed the product line to gentlemen’s belts (excellent ones I might add) and billfolds.
Because I’m a “one man band” with all this, there is a certain social deprivation at work with me, and the PSM gives me a way to rejoin the human race. The market is closed now because of the pandemic but “God willing and the creek don’t rise” to quote John Wayne, we will open up again once we are on the other side of this thing.
Hope ya’ll will come see me at the Portland Saturday Market then. Until then, be safe.
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