From the Portland Tribune...
The ownership team behind Mark Lindsay’s Rock & Roll Cafe confirmed Tuesday that the flashy shrine to a fondly remembered Portland era has closed.
The investment firm Aequitas Capital Management, of Lake Oswego, said in a press release Monday that the cafe could not operate profitably amid deteriorating economic conditions. The spacious, two-story restaurant was dark Tuesday morning, glasses and other supplies stacked in racks atop the bar.
The cafe opened with much fanfare in July of 2007. It carried the name of the Portland-born frontman of Paul Revere and the Raiders, one of the top rock groups of the ’60s. For a time, it featured hamburgers made famous at Yaw’s Top Notch, a Northeast Portland joint that was a favorite of teens and others for decades.
And it housed a remote studio for K-Hits 106.7, an oldies station that broadcast within sight of passersby on Sandy Boulevard, the way the old AM station, KISN, had done on West Burnside.
