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Late singer Shin Hae-chul, BLACKPINK among 10 to receive cultural merit
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October 28, 2026World’s Tallest Barber Pole in Forest Grove, Oregon
There’s something wonderfully absurd about pulling into a quiet Oregon park and finding a 73-foot barber pole just… standing there like it owns the place. I stopped by in May and couldn’t stop grinning. Forest Grove put it up back in the ’70s because some barbershop singers decided Texas’s “tallest” wasn’t tall enough. Classic Oregon energy. What makes it special isn’t the height or the stripes (though those red-white-and-blue bands still look sharp against the sky). It’s the pure, unapologetic small-town commitment to a joke that somehow became a landmark. In a world full of carefully curated attractions, this one quietly insists that harmony, community, and a little friendly one-upmanship are worth celebrating on a ridiculous scale. Worth the detour every time.
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