A few photos of the salmon fountain tucked away inside a parking garage at Lloyd Center, a couple of which were previously seen here. After a bit of Google-fu, I think I've finally come up with a title and artist for it: The Smithsonian's art inventory says there's a fountain at Lloyd Center called "Free Flow", by Al Goldsby, and the fountain looks a lot like other works of his (see "Leaping Bronze 5" at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, for example.) That's the most convincing info I've been able to find so far, so I'm going to out on a limb and claim that's what it is, and cross my fingers and hope I'm not wrong.
I was going to go ahead and post the photos without knowing a title or artist for the fountain, and instead I was going to link to some vintage circa-1962 photos of Lloyd Center, including a few of long-vanished fountains from before the mall was enclosed. They're still kind of interesting, so check out the photos at Mid-Century Modern and Vintage Portland.
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Al had been known for his turtle sculptures. Tom Hardy and Al used to frequent the Goose Holow In (long before the owner became Mayor of Portland.) One weekend I asked Al if I could commission a piece from him, but not a turtle. He said sure, what did I want. I said I would like a trout piece. He said that would be ok.
About a month later be presented me with the completed commision. He told me he had gone to the Jefferson St Safeway, bought two trout, sketched them as a sculpture study then had them for dinner. That piece is the first fish sculpture Al ever created, the father of the Lloyd Center fish.
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