I’ve found the key to passing yourself off as an Oregonian! You don’t have to wear Columbia sportswear, or sip Pinot, or bike to work, or keep chickens, or brew your own beer.
All you have to do is support Sen. Rick Metsger’s new proposition to bring back the Pacific Wonderland license plates that make you look like you’ve been here since 1959!
That’s longer than most other Oregonians have been here…
Fittingly, news of this development comes directly from the Oregonian itself, though the reporter didn’t catch on to this secret reason people might want these plates: Passing ourselves off as locals.
Also not in the article: hipster cred!
Rep. Terry Beyer, who called the retro-fitted tags “still another license plate,” obviously doesn’t get it. People have enough time while sitting in the DMV to contemplate picking the perfect tags to fit there Oregon identity.
And while I’ve never heard of anyone making an extra trip to the DMV for a license plate, I imagine this might just be the plate that inspires just that.
When we moved to Salem, we thought long and hard before choosing the purple mountain motif for our hatchback.
But my husband insists he would have taken the yellow on navy plates in an instant. With cars, and with us, nostalgia always wins.
