Do people like the Oregon quarter design?

[yurbud]

I grew up in Oregon, so I can think of a lot of more distinctive images than that non-descript one of crater lake:



Why not Mount Hood

Crown Point looking toward the Columbia River Gorge

Salmon

or something like these:





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[Modem Butterfly]

1. I'm from southern Oregon, so I'm biased

But I do like the Crater Lake quarter. Granted, I was expecting to see that damn beaver. YAWN!

The other options are freaking hilarious, BTW. To them, I would add Hostile Loggers and tourists befuddled by the gas pump law.

[TheFarseer]

3. explain the gas pump law to me

incase I ever find myself in Oregon in need of gas

[Modem Butterfly]

4. It's against the law to pump it yourself

That's why gas prices are higher in Oregon.

[sandnsea]

21. no they aren't

We get our gas from California. Our gas prices aren't higher than theirs at all. Instead of 5 people inside behind the cash register, we've got 5 people outside pumping gas. No difference in number of employees at all.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I'm not from Oregon but

I do like the coin design. I guess each state had several designs submitted and it would be hard to please everyone. I prefer the use of Natural landscape or flora or fauna (Arkansas and Mississippi come to mind) then putting humans on the coin.

[Modem Butterfly]

5. I thought John Muir belonged on the California quarter

At least they didn't put Fremond or Sutter on there.

[BOSSHOG]

7. He does look rather stately

and Alabama put Helen Keller on their quarter, Illinois honored Abraham Lincoln. I think just about all the quarters are very well done, with the exception of Louisiana. I love the state but the quarter had to be a compromise with the Louisiana Purchase outlined over the lower 48..

[0rganism]

12. imagine a Ken Kesey quarter...

Lots of good subject material in Oregon, tho.

[yurbud]

14. that would be cool

[yurbud]

9. I think they picked Muir to not offend Northern or Southern Cal

As a SoCal resident, I would have preferred a surfer and the Hollywood sign.

[Modem Butterfly]

11. ROFL!

They could have just used a raisin from Fresno and pissed everybody off...

[On the Road]

6. All I Can Say Is

It's a damn sight better than Maryland's:



That's the top of the state capitol building, if anyone cares. Personally, I think they should have combined the distinctive and funky shape of the state with a picture of a crab. That or something connected with the Chesapeake Bay like a great blue heron.

[Modem Butterfly]

8. Or the World's Largest Cubic Zirconia on Arkansas'

[yurbud]

10. a lot of them look like they were designed by committee

[yurbud]

13. GRAPHICS: Best other state designs

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[HuckleB]

15. Obviously, there are many fine choices, but Crater Lake is representative,

IMHO. It represents the wonders of nature in general, the Cascades in particular, including the volcano aspect, and the area that surrounds it can be used as representative for the entirety of human history in Oregon.

There is no one thing that represents the state as a whole. That's the beauty of all states, IMHO.

[carpetbagger]

16. No, it should have been one of these...

[yurbud]

17. Damn! I wish I thought of the Tom McCall one!

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[Modem Butterfly]

19. AWESOME

The Tom McCall one is great!

[yurbud]

18. PHOTO: the Simpson's creator, Matt Groening (Oregon native)

[funflower]

20. I vote for the Mayor Bud design!

What a piece of Oregon history!

[sandnsea]

22. Crater Lake is boring

I get so sick of Crater Lake. When tourists on the coast ask if they should go, we usually tell them it isn't worth it. Too many other beautiful areas to see in the state. Look at a picture, same idea. The water's really blue, wow.

The coast, the gorge, the umpqua and rogue rivers, mt hood, sisters, who needs crater lake?

[IMSA]

23. I'm not so sure now that I've seen it.

At first it sounded like a great idea. Oregon’s only national park and state treasure on the quarter. But unfortunately you can’t print a blue quarter to show how blue Crater Lake is. In hind sight I think Oregon should have gone with Mount Hood.

IMSA

[oneold1-4u]

24. Mt. Hood is high

but still only a mountain which looks a lot like hundreds of mountains. There are few to none that look like Crater Lake within the United States. I lived for many years only a few miles from the park and went there fishing in the 40s. The history and total information about the lake is the astounding and unusual strong reasons for anyone seeing it. Not to know, of course, does only make it a picture. Quite likely 90% of Oregonians today simply know it is a lake within an old volcano! Of course about 40% believe that a bush is a president!