Painted antique storefronts on SE 13th Avenue, and the convenience store Netflix's American Vandal used as a location.
What Sellwood-Moreland looks like
SE 13th Avenue is lined with Sellwood's antique dealers, in painted storefronts set close to the sidewalk. , a corner convenience store further down the block, faces the neighborhood library across the street. A block over on SE Milwaukie Avenue, the still runs first-run films under its own marquee, one of Portland's few surviving single-screen houses.
Away from the strip, the houses are single storey wood-frame cottages behind small front gardens, most dating from the early 1900s. The blocks run straight and quiet under mature street trees, with porches common on the older houses.
The Willamette riverbank is a few blocks west, at 's 17 acres of ball fields and a boat ramp down the bank. The Sellwood Bridge crosses to South Portland alongside the park, and houseboats sit moored on the water a short way downstream. Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, on the neighborhood's western edge, adds a stretch of wetland between the park and the river.
On SE 11th Avenue, the Office and Clubhouse dates from 1910. It is a two storey red brick building, now used as offices. , a small white wood-frame chapel with a peaked steeple, stands near the park on SE Spokane Street.
Shot in Sellwood-Moreland
Netflix's American Vandal used Sellwood Market for its second season, filming in and around the convenience store on SE 13th Avenue. Production vehicles lined SE Lambert and Bidwell Streets for the day's shoot, diagonally across from the Sellwood branch library.
American Vandal, season 2, 2018
Sellwood Market
A half dozen production vehicles lined SE Lambert and Bidwell Streets on the morning of March 3, 2018. The crew set up a crab dolly and two RED cameras before filming inside the store.
What Sellwood-Moreland can double for
Niles in Fremont, California
Niles' early storefronts along Niles Boulevard match the scale and period of Sellwood's SE 13th Avenue strip, one and two storey brick and wood commercial buildings set close to the sidewalk with antique shops behind many of the windows. Niles' brick runs a brighter red than Sellwood's painted storefronts. The street also reads wider on camera, so tighter frames hold the match best. Try searching antique shops storefronts now.
Snohomish, Washington
Snohomish's own antique district along First Street runs at the same small town commercial scale as SE 13th Avenue, in a similar mix of brick and wood storefronts under the same Pacific Northwest light. Snohomish's buildings sit a little taller and closer together, so a single block frame works better than a full street. Try searching small town antique district now.
Alameda, California
Alameda's blocks of single storey Craftsman cottages behind small front gardens are close in scale to Sellwood's own residential streets, most built in the same early decades of the twentieth century. Alameda's lots run a little wider and its street trees are mostly palm rather than fir, so a tight frame on a porch and garden holds the match better than a full block. Try searching Craftsman cottages front gardens now.
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