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176 images Created 14 Mar 2021

Vintage downtown Portland, Oregon images.
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  • CS01116-20. SW Broadway at Taylor looking North. On left: Fox Theater (now site of Fox tower), Orpheum (now site of Nordstroms). December 1964
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  • CS01113-10. SW Broadway at night January 1961
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  • CS01113-09. SW Broadway from Taylor looking North. On left: Fox Theater (now site of Fox tower), Orpheum (now site of Nordstroms) on right is Jackson Tower. January 1961
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  • CS01113-08. SW Broadway looking north from Madison. January 1961.
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  • 9969-530716-01. Jackson Tower, SW Broadway looking south from Morrison, Meier & Frank Parking lot when new. July 16, 1953
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  • 9969-540825. SW Broadway & Washington at night, August 25, 1954
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  • 9969-530409-06SW Broadway, looking south, at night, April 9, 1953
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  • 9969-530409-05. Night view of SW Broadway looking south from Burnside. April 9, 1953
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  • 9969-7722. the Portland Hotel. Taken as a feature for Pic Magazine. January 7, 1943.
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  • ackroyd-09280-3. Orpheum Theater. August 31, 1959 (SW Broadway between Morrison and Yamhill, now the site of Nordstroms.)
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  • Ackroyd 09203-04 "Benson Hotel. Interiors at Trader Vic's. July 22, 1959" (this is the month it opened)
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  • Ackroyd-09170-04. "Benson Hotel. Trader Vic's decor. July 13, 1959" (this is the month it opened.)
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  • Ackroyd 12642-014. "Heathman Hotel. Exteriors. July 12, 1964" (35mm B&W. SW Broadway & Taylor)
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  • Ackroyd 12642-07. "Heathman Hotel. Exteriors. July 12, 1964" (35mm B&W. SW Broadway & Taylor)
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  • OPS_22-TT05.  End of the war parade on SW Broadway. V-J Day. Oregon Journal newspaper on dashboard.
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  • Blixt_28. Shell Station on SW Broadway looking south from Stark. April 1961
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  • Blixt_246. Jolly Joan restaurant. SW Broadway looking north from Alder. December 1959.
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  • Blixt_244. Geryhound Bus terminal building, George Lewis restaurant. Corner SW 5th & Taylor. April 1959
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  • blixt 163 Orpheum theater block. SW Broadway looking north from Yamhill
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  • 9409-01. Harley Davidson 1915. The Motorcycle & Supply Company had just received the first Harley Davidson Cycle Truck to reach Portland. The three-wheeled vehicle was advertised as being so powerful that it could carry more freight than its own weight. It is shown in front of the Oregon Journal headquarters in the Jackson Tower building on the southeast corner of SW Broadway at Yamhill, Portland. The Portland Hotel, presently the site of Pioneer Courthouse Square, is on the left in the background. January 22, 1915.. see January 24, 1915, page 3, col. 2-3
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  • Ackroyd 01084-2. "Bullier & Bullier. Portland buildings. October 30, 1948" "Packard Motors. NW corner of 20th Place & West Burnside"
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  • 9120-07. SW Washington at Park Ave, looking east.  This is the core of Portland's Theatre district as it was in 1911.  The intersection one block in the background is Portland's main intersection from that era, 8th Ave. (now Park).  The Star Theatre, on the extreme left, is now O'Bryant Square.   On the right is Cordray's Theatre, in it's later days when it was known as the Empress and the Grand.  The heyday of these theatres was from 1900 to 1910, when Portland's population more than doubled and good crowds supported seven nights and three matinees a week.  In 1909 the Portland City Council, responding to a disastrous theatre fire in Chicago, ruled that all theatres in frame buildings must cease operations.  The April 1911 deadline doomed the theatre district, and although several new vaudeville stages were constructed in other parts of downtown, the "stock companies" lost out to motion picture in the market and were all but gone by the great depression.  The building in the background under construction is the Wilcox building, built 1911
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  • 9120-06 night view of SW 7th Ave., now Broadway, looking north from about Taylor at the intersection of Yamhill. BPOE convention. 1912
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  • 9120-05. night view of Jackson tower, SE corner of SW Broadway and Yamhill. 1912. Portland, Oregon
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  • 9969-7187. Street cars and people going to work at southwest Sixth and Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon. ("Portland Morning"). April 8, 1948
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  • 6403 Sixth Avenue in Portland, looking south from near Oak Street. March 24, 1946.
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  • Y-480722-05. Portland SW Washington & 5th looking west. Trolley 539 NW 23rd. July 22, 1948
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  • Y-480722-04. Portland SW Morrison & 5th looking west. Trolley 435 &563 Mt Tabor. July 22, 1948
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  • Y-480722-03. Portland SW Morrison & 5th looking west. Trolley 563 Mt Tabor. July 22, 1948
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  • Y-480722-02. Portland SW Morrison & 5th looking west. Trolley 550 Mt Tabor. July 22, 1948
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  • Y-480722-01. Portland SW Morrison & 5th looking west. Trolley 563 Mt Tabor. July 22, 1948
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  • Ackroyd C06444-09 "Gunderson Inc. City of Portland. ground views of Portlandia. October 7, 1985" (4x5". Note Welcome Portland banner on City Hall facade below statue. Note these pictures were taken the day after it was barged down the river and put into position.)
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  • Y-541203-02. Pacific Power & Light building exterior at night. New sign on building. December 3, 1954
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  • CH0001. Portland SW 5th looking north, corner of Yamhill, Pioneer courthouse, Kodachrome. Ray Atkeson photo. Two way traffic on SW 5th ended in October 1950.
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  • CH0004. Central Fire Station fire house, 905 SW 4th, corner of Taylor. Photographed before this station moved to a new location in 1950. Portland, Oregon
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  • 9544-01. Seward Hotel. SW 10th and Alder on SW corner. Presently the Governor Hotel. Portland, Oregon
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  • Ackroyd-14186-1. Downtown Portland looking west from the Marquam Bridge. The Hawthorne Bridge may be seen at right foreground. Principal buildings from left include the Standard Plaza with its weather beacon on top, the Hilton Hotel and the Public Service Building brightened by its roof-top Pacific Power and Light Co. sign. October 3, 1966.
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  • Y-580311-D08.  Portland bridges & Waterfront March 11, 1958
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  • Y-580311-D01.  Hawthorne Bridge, west end. March 11, 1958
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  • Y-580311-A12.  Morrison Bridge under construction, old Morrison Bridge is still operating. March 11, 1958
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  • 9969-510520-06. POVA Visitors Information Center, later McCalls and now the Rose Festival headquarters on Waterfront Park, between Front Ave. and the Seawall. May 20, 1951
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  • 9969-510520-05. POVA Visitors Information Center, later McCalls and now the Rose Festival headquarters on Waterfront Park. May 20, 1951
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  • blixt_140. Pacific Power building sign. SW 5th St.  April 1958.
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  • blixt_139. Looking east on SW Salmon from Park towards the Pacific Power building, April 1958.
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  • ackroyd_C06438-9. "City of Portland. Knappton Corporation. Aerials – Portlandia. October 6, 1985" (statue on barge, being brought to crane in Waterfront Park)
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  • ackroyd C06438-7. "City of Portland. Knappton Corporation. Aerials – Portlandia. October 6, 1985" (statue on barge, being brought to crane in Waterfront Park)
    ackroyd-C06438-7.tif
  • Ackroyd C06438-5. "City of Portland. Knappton Corporation. Aerials – Portlandia. October 6, 1985" (statue on barge, being brought to crane in Waterfront Park)
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  • Y-530729-06-01. A log boom man uses his pike pole to float logs down the Willamette river under the old Morrison Bridge in Portland. July 29, 1953
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  • CS03386. Portland Waterfront, old Harbor Drive, Hawthorne Bridge, Rose Festival June 1971 submarine, circus, taken from Morrison bridge looking south.
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  • ckroyd 15041-1. "Skidmore fountain. night view. December 26, 1967"
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  • 9969-7087. Kamm Building doorway. September 4, 1947. Southwest First and Stark Streets, as it was about to be torn down.
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  • CS00331-07. Skidmore Fountain, ca. 1953. Corner of SW 1st, Ash & Ankeny.
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  • CS00331-08. Corley Sawmill Machinery, the building facing Skidmore Fountain, 106 SW 1st St., Portland.  This is known as the Ladd & Tilton Bank, built in 1868, demolished in 1954. This was one of the finest cast iron buildings in Portland.
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  • 0805-A01A.  Skidmore Fountain. Looking north and west. 1910s. SW First St. & Ankeny. 1912, Portland, Oregon
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  • 0805-A01B.  Skidmore Fountain. Looking north and west. 1910s. SW First St. & Ankeny. 1912, Portland, Oregon
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  • ackroyd-00133-03. White Stag building next to Burnside Bridge. Note White Satin Sugar sign is still on building. September 1947.
    ackroyd-00133-03.tif
  • Ackroyd 10444-1/12"Portland Development Commission. Urban renewal. Downtown Portland. August 9, 1961", vertical. South Auditorium district. Looking north from Ross Island Bridge towards downtown.
    ackroyd-10444-12.tif
  • Ackroyd_18973-4. Lebeck and Son, Aerials warehouse on barge. August 2, 1974. (south Waterfront area south of the Hawthorne bridge. They are barging the entire 45,000 square feet Multnomah Plywood factory to its new home in St Helens.)
    Ackroyd-18973-4.tif
  • Ackroyd_18973-3. "LeBeck & Son. Aerials moving warehouse onto barge. August 2, 1974" (south Waterfront area south of the Hawthorne bridge. They are barging the entire 45,000 square feet Multnomah Plywood factory to its new home in St Helens.)
    Ackroyd-18973-3.tif
  • Ackroyd-18973-2. "LeBeck & Son. Aerials moving warehouse onto barge. August 2, 1974" (south Waterfront area south of the Hawthorne bridge. They are barging the entire 45,000 square feet Multnomah Plywood factory to its new home in St Helens.)
    Ackroyd-18973-2.tif
  • Ackroyd_18973-1."LeBeck & Son. Aerials moving warehouse onto barge. August 2, 1974" (south Waterfront area south of the Hawthorne bridge. They are barging the entire 45,000 square feet Multnomah Plywood factory to its new home in St Helens.)
    Ackroyd-18973-1.tif
  • Y-551005-15. Aerial of downtown Portland, Hawthorne Bridge. October 5, 1955.
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  • Kick off rally for 1950 Community Chest drive. Cow milking contest. SW 6th at Yamhill. October 9, 1950. (Looking south on 6th, Pioneer courthouse on left, Portland Hotel on right)
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  • First National Bank Building, SW 5th & Stark. April 19, 1950
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  • YWCA building SW Broadway & Taylor, June 7, 1949
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  • NW Broadway looking south at West Burnside. Jones Photo. Broadway Hotel.
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  • “Jackson Tower, Broadway from Taylor” July 1, 1950 (YMCA on right)
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  • “Multnomah College and Pacific First Federal Savings” July 1, 1950 (SW 6th looking north from Yamhill, Portland Hotel in background)
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  • “Jackson Tower, Yamhill & Broadway” (looking east on Yamhill) July 1, 1950
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  • General MacArthur parade on SW Broadway. November 15, 1951.
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  • 8702-76.  Edward Bruns Glass Studio, 68 1/2 First street in Portland. Using contemporary addresses, this is 224 SW First Ave., between Pine and Oak. The “1/2” denotes its on the second story. The building is still standing. Ca. 1907-1908.
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  • Rose Festival crowds at SW 6th & Alder, looking south on 6th.  Pioneer Courthouse on left. June 9, 1950. "Crowds numbering into the thousands swept into the street after the parade passed each of the many blocks along its route. In this view, looking south on Sixth Avenue from Alder street, the massed throngs completely fill the wide street from building to building. This photograph was taken from one of the platforms erected by crews demolishing the old Oregonian building."
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  • Simon 046. Eastern Outfitting Co. building, SW 10th & Washington, from fire escape of 4th floor Pittock Place. Blue Mouse Theatre on right. March 27, 1956
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  • Zombie Zulu club, 739 SW Park (northwest corner of Park & Yamhill) A tiki-themed nightclub in business during the 1950s.
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  • simon_16675-1. Trailways Station, Portland Oregon. SW 6th & Salmon.
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  • Simon 059 Medical Arts Building, SW 10th & Taylor, June 5, 1950
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  • 9969-2398. Portland Public Library from Yamhill Street side. April 26, 1936.
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  • falconer-0232-6. Jasmine Tree restaurant. 401 SW Harrison. Closed about 2008, building torn down.
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  • falconer-0232-4. Jasmine Tree restaurant. 401 SW Harrison. closed about 2008, building torn down.
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  • 0001-600731. July 31 1960. Minor White teaching his Advanced workshop. Looking south on SW 2nd from about Madison. On the left is Boyd's coffee at the intersection of Jefferson, 1336 SW 2nd.  South Auditorium neighborhood.
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  • Ackroyd 02380-3. "SW Broadway looking south. April 25, 1950" (Plaza Hotel, Broadway at Washington)
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  • Ackroyd 03656-1. Glendale Cafe. exterior. interiors & exterior. June 11, 1952" (2319 SW 4th, between Sherman St. and Caruthers St. This intersection was excavated and the land is now the I-405 freeway)
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  • ackroyd_03917-1. Wally Youngson's Associated (Flying-A) Oil station on West Burnside at Broadway looking east, October 10, 1952. On the left is Burnside stretching from the Apolistic Faith Church at 6th, now the Roseland Theater, stretching down the street to the Grove Hotel building. The gas station occupies the block south of Burnside to Ankeny, between 6th and Broadway, which is now a parking lot.
    ackroyd-03917-1.tif
  • Ackroyd 09501-03. "Benson Hotel. Trader Vic's, dinner and luncheon sign with girl. s. December 27, 1959"
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  • Ackroyd C01063-8. "Congress Hotel. Exterior of building with models. April 11, 1965" (1024 SW 6th, corner of Main. Demolished in 1970s, now site of the Congress Center, a skyscraper)
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  • 9969-1079. Burnside Bridge from the east end. March 22, 1933.
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  • 9969-car. Elevated parking garage, Portland, Oregon
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  • Simon 058. Bates Garage building, The Broiler restaurant, SW 9th & Salmon on NW corner. April 24, 1950.
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  • Simon 057. Bates Garage building, looking south on SW 9th from Taylor. April 24, 1950.
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  • Simon 055. Manning building, SW 4th & Alder 1949
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  • Simon 048. Looking south down SW 10th from Stark. Governor Hotel on right. March 27, 1956
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  • Simon 049. Roberts Brothers, SW 3rd & Morrison, looking SE. May 31, 1955
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  • Simon 047. Eastern Outfitting Co. building & Blue Mouse Theatre from 11th & Washington. March 27, 1956 Gay Inn.
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  • Simon 114.  view of downtown Portland from the Hawthorne Bridge, after the construction of the Seawall in 1927. The buildings in the foreground were demolished to make way for the Portland Public Market Building in 1933. (note billboard advertising "7th Western Divisional meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the USA" which was held at Ogden, Utah, on October 1, 1929. billboard advertising "Powers for more than 60 years. Their 60th anniversary was 1926. In all likelihood, this dates from the summer of 1929.)
    Simon 114.tif
  • 9969-6672. Portland bus depot, southwest Fifth Avenue and Taylor Street. July 22, 1946.
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  • Ackroyd C00492-4 "Benson Hotel. Trader Vic's. October 13, 1959"
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  • CS02489. Hung Far Low sign NW Fourth & Couch. September 17, 1981
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  • CS02260. Zorba, Rajneesh restaurant. SW Taylor & Ninth. May 1983.
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  • Y-631226A-03. Barbary Coast, NW Hoyt in the Hoyt Hotel, night shots for PGE. December 26, 1963
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  • Y-590604-02.  Bart’s Restaurant. Waiter and lobster. June 4, 1959
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