A self-describerd wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland before maybe heading to a spare family condo in California.
A wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland before heading to a spare family condo in California. He smokes opioids off foil in the street and avoids shelters. His possessions were stolen by someone giving him a ride from Tacoma. After a few months in Portland, he had his next tent stolen on West Burnside while at lunch; then he was jumped by four men outside the notorious Jefferson Street Plaid Pantry. He spoke without self-pity and showed a wry humor.
A wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland. Here he stopped for a smoke break at Northwest Marshall Street and 15th Avenue. He collects cans and heats water by burning hand sanitizer.
A self-describerd wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland before maybe heading to a spare family condo in California.
PMG Photo: Joseph Gallivan
A wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland before heading to a spare family condo in California. He smokes opioids off foil in the street and avoids shelters. His possessions were stolen by someone giving him a ride from Tacoma. After a few months in Portland, he had his next tent stolen on West Burnside while at lunch; then he was jumped by four men outside the notorious Jefferson Street Plaid Pantry. He spoke without self-pity and showed a wry humor.
PMG Photo: Joseph Gallivan
A wanderer, Dean Murphy from California is staying on the streets in Portland. Here he stopped for a smoke break at Northwest Marshall Street and 15th Avenue. He collects cans and heats water by burning hand sanitizer.
PMG Photo: Joseph Gallivan
Street Lives in the Portland Tribune: talking to people living on the streets.
Dean Murphy lives outside, favoring a rain poncho, silver emergency blankets and a sleeping bag at bedtime. He had a tent but one day when he walked from West Burnside to Blanchet House for lunch, his tent and its contents were stolen.
On a recent afternoon, he parked his shopping cart, which holds his cans, bedding and some food, and sat on a scrap of dirt at 15th Avenue and Northwest Marshall Street to smoke some opioids in powder form from aluminum foil. The small silver rectangles looked to have lost some luster, from creasing and scorch marks, but he was adamant that the gold coating was crystallized drug, which would melt again and smoke easily up his metal tooter.
