For more than three decades — before Cartopia, before Prost Marketplace, before the Portland Mercado — a line of food carts has stretched along Southwest Fifth Avenue in Portland between Southwest Harvey Milk and Southwest Oak streets. Its existence in downtown Portland predates the time the city thought specifically about “pods,” these clusters of food carts with shared seating, fire pits, and string lights. The Fifth Avenue pod had none of those things; it didn’t have a catchy name, like the Barley Pod or Lil’ America. It just had carts, ones that became lunchtime traditions for the workers downtown and tourist fuel during the city’s heyday.
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