The Eastbank Esplanade is the filming location for Portlandia's Episode 1, Season 1 sketch, "The Dream of the Nineties is Alive in Portland." The song/sketch describes a magical place where you can sleep til eleven, take up clowning, and never ride in a car.

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This filming location for Portlandia was featured in Episode 6 of Season 1, when the obnoxious couple brings all their crap to the "Summer Movie Series at the Park."

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This filming location for Portlandia was featured in Episode 6 of Season 1, in a sketch that could be best described as "gourmet chefs get crazy sexy on their photo shoot."

In the sketch, the exterior of the restaurant says "Porchlight", but it's a southern cuisine place called Screen Door. No word on whether the chefs really do lines of flour.

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This filming location for Portlandia was featured in Episode 6 of Season 1. The professional baseball team that Fred and Carrie are putting together, the Portland Thinkers, hold their tryouts here.

Everybody makes the team in Portland.

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The Women and Women First Bookstore (real name: In Other Words Women's Bookstore) is located here. Run by Toni and Candace (Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen), it has a pretty diverse client base, including Steve Buscemi, Aubrey Plaza, and Heather Graham. I haven't tried the campu-choochoo-choochoo tea there, but I heard it tastes like soot and hot water and looks like a stillbirth.

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