·         Cited in The Portland Scribe, June 23-29, 1977 LIVE MUSIC “all ages welcome”

Per Interview with Holly Hart (glapn.org)     And for example, there was at the of S.E. 39th and Stark, there was a feminist-ran restaurant called MT. Moving Cafe that was some of the people that ran that were people I had known at Reed - both men and women. And it was just a short lived organization, very wonderful memories of it but only existed for about two years. But for example, when we were starting to do gay things in the legislature, the early gay rights bills in the legislature and I’m not gonna be real good on years here but it must have been, it had to be 75 to 77 because that’s when the cafe existed. As part of our organizing to support those bills, we started having Sunday brunches at Mt. Moving Cafe where I would - boy I don’t even remember where that food came from - oh, no I mean the cafe, the cafe was making the food but we, but it, point is it was my idea. ‘Oh let’s have it at a brunch. People will come to eat and then we will basically solicit them to write letters to the legislature like which, the bill is in this committee.

·         ‘Okay, everybody before you leave after eating today, come up to the table, write out the good-old, the good-old letter, that’s says the right things and we’ll l mail it to the committee. And so I just was always really aware of people have to eat. And so, that was something I was attentive to. So that came up in, in various contexts. And so somewhere along the line I became aware that there were feminists restaurants that were, not only in Portland with Mt. Moving Cafe, and feminists by the way, doesn’t just mean for women. I mean, the Mt. Moving Cafe collective was both men and women. They would have, I think it was Wednesday nights, they would just have women only nights kind of thing at the Mt. Moving Cafe but the rest of the time it was both men and women customers as well as people running the place. They did have a little children’s play in the one large room of the cafe. And, so but it also in other cities, like in New York City there was a feminists restaurant called Mother Courage. In Boston or some such place there was a, I think it was something called Blood Roots or something. And again, we would find out about these things through the underground papers. There was actually an underground paper press service. I’m not sure what it’s called. But like the main line press has or AP or something like that. There was also an underground press service. And we would get copies of all these papers from around the country too -if you working one underground paper, you were kind of aware of what was going on in other places. So, so somehow I got it into my head that Portland, Mt. Moving Cafe folded right, in about, in 77.