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  • Cannon Beach from Tolovana. The woman is holding a blanket made by the Oregon City Woolen Mills. The blanket pattern was called Big City Lights, made  from 1922 to 1931
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  • Ackroyd 00074-7 "Tucker Sno-Cat at Timberline. March 2, 1947"
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  • Y-540812-04. Singer Johnnie Ray and actor Jeff Richards. The two were in Portland, OR for the grand opening of the Fox Theater. Mr. Ray was famous for "Cry" and Mr. Richards appeared in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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  • 9616-A79 "Seward Park. Bathing Beach. Aug. 8, 1921." Seattle, Washington State.
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  • Club 21 once located on Sandy Blvd. The bar closed in 2017.
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  • 0908-01. Barber shop. Zumbrota, Minnesota. June 1912. The barber sold photo supplies, a sign says.
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  • 0905-A55.  Woman in yard of large clapboard house, rocker on porch, hammock hung from porch post to small tree, child’s chair on lawn. Lady posed against forked tree beside long barreled lever action rifle, hatchet stuck in tree. She’s wearing long skirt, long sleeved blouse, and a western hat. Large cartridge belt around waist, many rounds of ammo, appears to be 45-70 government pistol in belt, as is a large Coffin Hilt Bowie knife. Denver, Colorado about 1893
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  • 0904-B01. "Elvah Reck in front of Willamette Falls Railway Station, June 5, 1909"  (letter from Chassa 1/2014: "This station was actually in what is now West Linn. The West Linn side was called Oregon City before the city was incorporated, but it wasn't Oregon City. The station sat at the West Linn end of the old wood suspension bridge to Oregon City and ran from there to the town of Willamette Falls, now the Town of Willamette Falls Historic District. This view is of the south side of the station. The tracks ran east and west on the north side of the station. The trolley eventually ran to the south edge of Lake Oswego. River Road in West Linn is the old trolley bed. It loaded logs out of the Willamette, just south of Rodgers Park, that had started out in Tillamook and were dumped into the river in the area of Oswego Point. Southern Pacific refused direct transfers to the trolley line cars. The logs fed the paper mill at the falls.")
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  • 0705-M03. A car fills up at a gas station once located at the Clamor Motor Lodge in Coos Bay, Oregon. The lodge opened in 1947 with 13 rooms for overnight guests. The lodge also had a Texaco gas station and cafe.
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  • 0401-01. The Hotel Del Tahquitz once located in Palm Springs, California. The hotel opened in 1928 and closed around 1960.
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  • 0302-005C. A rare early look at the Beverly Hills Witch House (aka the Spadena House) shortly after being moved from Culver City to Beverly Hills. In this image you can see the moat has recently been dug and the landscape is still quite bare. A wonderful look at one of the best examples of storybook architecture ever constructed. The home is still lovingly cared for and a popular photo stop.
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  • 0001-E118. A 1951 view of the Cliff House in San Francisco, CA.
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  • XXX-00002. This image provides a rare look at the exterior of the then-new Castaways Hotel & Casino. The reader board on the sign mentions it being the newest hotel on the strip, while the billboard at the far right advertises the Bottoms Up show, which was headlined by Redd Foxx in 1963 and 1964.
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  • XXX-00001. The Starlite Drive In, located in South El Monte, California was designed by the architectural team of William and Clifford Balch. The single screen theatre opened to the public in 1950. The Starlite was designed to accommodate 850 cars and included many features that took full advantage of the Southern California climate including a playground for the children.<br />
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The Starlite was one of many Southern California theatres that flourished during the golden years of the drive in theatre. The drive in was so popular in California that the number of theatres grew from roughly 44 in 1948 to 180 in 1958.<br />
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This circa. 1949 image shows the wonderful Starlite marquee shortly after construction and just prior to opening to the public.
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  • The Philadelphia Cap Factory in Santa Ana, CA in 1924. The building has numerous hand painted signs advertising the thousands of hats available in the showroom.
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  • XXX-00010. The interior of a Memphis, TN Schwinn bicycle shop.
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  • XXX-00076. Madison Avenue in downtown Memphis, TN around 1951. In the image are the Sterick Building, Cooper's Restaurant and a neon sign advertising the S.C. Toof and Company. Original negative has a slight light leak on left side.
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  • CS00959-02. Fulton St., Fresno, California, T W Patterson building, circa 1952-55.
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  • Agnes Thompson (wife of Henry Thompson) and daughter Louise Thompson at 1940 Old Fort Dalles Frolics Parade, August 29, 1940.
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  • 9345-53. Grand looking north from the corner of Yamhill. Universal Auto Exchange (181 Grand), Black Cat Cafe. Night view. Grand Avenue immediately after its grand-reopening on Saturday, October 30, 1926. Grand had been widened three feet on each side, and street lights identical to the globes on Broadway were installed. Wiring for traffic signals had been laid, but the traffic signals themselves had to await the November election for voter approval. The street is decorated with black cat and orange pumpkin banners for the opening ceremonies, which attracted 25,000 people, and doubled as a Halloween parade. Literally overnight, Grand became the Broadway of Portland's east side and it's principal traffic artery paralleling the river.<br />
The photograph was made for the City of Portland as a study of the streetlights.
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  • 1006-C028-5a. Newport, November 1962
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  • Ackroyd 21134-2. aerial of Portland. July 8, 1980. caption published in Daily Journal of Commerce 7/11/1980 pg. 1 "Bird's Eye View of Rose City shows construction progressing on Madison Tower, foreground. W. C. Sivers Co. of Portland, general contractor, is 50 percent complete; building is topped out, with finish work remaining. Completion of 22-story, $12 million structure is set for Jan. 1, 1981. Eric Wieser is owner of structure, which will provide 201,500 square feet of condominium space. ... Note that Portlanders haven't been quite so industrious sweeping ash off city roof-tops." (referring to ash from St. Helens eruption of May 18)
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  • 0001-F53-08 Fishing platforms were handed down through generations. This platform is on the west side of Standing island. September 9, 1956.
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  • 0003-041. Winter Window Vista. The children of photographer Stuart Fresk are building a snowman in their front yard. Ca. 1960. The location is 1609 23rd Avenue, Longview, Washington.
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  • 0001-E003 Champoeg, Oregon. Champoeg Pioneer Memorial Building.  8239 Champoeg Road NE, St. Paul, Oregon.  Built in 1918.  The building is next to the monument erected on the spot where Oregon’s territorial government was born, on May 2, 1843.  The building is still standing, although the riverboat signs are now at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria. "Champoeg Riverboat Signs" was exhibited at Portland Art Museum in February, 1950.
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  • CS01109-10. Tradewinds Dock, Depoe Bay July 1951
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  • 0501-01 Nick Gales, barber, 314 SW 9th Ave, Portland, Oregon. January 1952
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  • Ackroyd-04487-05 Bridge of the Gods Cafe June 18, 1953. According to an advertisement in the Oregonian classified on May 10, 1953 offering the place for sale. "Chinese American Cafe, bottle beer, service station and 6 cabins. Living quarters. Cafe has fully equipped Chinese kitchen, 14 stools, 3 booths. Ideal location at north end of the Bridge of the Gods on highway 830, Stevenson, Wash."
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  • Richfield Station 665 Water Ave. between Yamhill and Belmont. Old Morrison Bridge in background. April 15, 1954.
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  • 9969-C03 Wilmette, January 1952
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  • falconer-162D-04. Cannon Beach Sand Castle Festival, Saturday July 18, 1970
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  • Y-500903-01.  Society – people at beach leaving to come home (to Portland). Gearhart. September 3-4 1950
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  • 9969-7294 Fisherman with two of the fish from the haul brought in with their boat at Cape Kiwanda, Oregon. July 22, 1948.
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  • Y-481214-01. Night view of SW Broadway from the Oregonian building, Paramount and Broadway theatres. December 14, 1948
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  • 9969-6481. (Left to right) Mary Holland, Janet Peterson, Beverly Block and Nan Pillsbury, all of Portland, Camp Westwind Beach, Cascade Head in background, May 11, 1946
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  • 9969-561007-01. Indians fishing at the top of Downes Channel, Celilo Falls, October 7, 1956
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  • Blixt_244. Geryhound Bus terminal building, George Lewis restaurant. Corner SW 5th & Taylor. April 1959
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  • CS00626-17.  Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach April 17, 1958
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  • Y-611016-11.  Oregon City Elevator. October 16, 1961
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  • ackroyd_C05611-18. "Rajneeshpuram Commune. July 6, 1982" (Antelope, Oregon, Wasco County)
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  • Ackroyd 01751-05. Bayocean, a city on Tillamook Bay that fell into the sea. Oregon Coast. September 13, 1949.
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  • Opened in June, 1960, The Way Out was located under the Hawthorne Bridge at 240 SE Hawthorne. Live modern jazz was the featured entertainment. One of the owners was artist Louis Bunce, who decorated the restaurant with his own paintings. Weekly live radio broadcasts from the stage brought the crowds in. The front window was painted by artist Jim Smith, another one of the owners.
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  • Y-551013-01. Aerial of SW Portland, Willamette River, SE Portland and Mt. Hood. October 13, 1955
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  • 0706-A71 Gearhart, Oregon. Sunday August 23, 1931, golf
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  • Ackroyd 09822-09. "Oregonian. aerials. June 28, 1960" "Gearhart Hotel"
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  • C-3940. A neon sign at the Kellogg Bowl in Milwaukie, Oregon. This bowling alley opened in 1962. (2008 photo.)
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  • p-8223. The neon sign at The Hot Cake House on SE Powell Blvd. in Portland, Oregon. 2011 photo.
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  • p-8378. The neon sign that once advertised Pro 300 Lanes on SE Powell Blvd. in Portland, Oregon. The former bowling alley now houses a Target store. 2011 photo.
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  • C-10074. The neon sign that once directed diners to the parking lot of the Canton Grill on SE 82nd Ave. in Portland, Oregon. The restaurant closed in 2020 after a 76 year run.
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  • C-10098. The Chinese Village neon sign once located on SE 82nd Ave. in Portland, Oregon. The building was demolished in 2018 and the sign placed in storage.
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  • 470709.  Broadway & Washington, Portland, looking north in the rain. July 9, 1947.
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  • Ackroyd-15784-08. A large tiki statue that once welcomed guests to the Kon Tiki in Portland, Oregon. This image was shot as a promotional photo for the company that produced the gas torches for the restaurant.
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  • 9501-08. Zena the Snake Charmer. She was a native of Tillamook, known locally as Grace Moreland. This picture was taken in 1909, when she was 18 years old, after she joined a traveling circus on the Oregon Coast. They went from Coos Bay to Seaside and then on to Portland.
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  • 9229-P02. "Security Bank B-71". View of the west side of N. Higgins St. at the corner of Main in Missoula, Montana.
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  • 9545-36. “Steamer No. 1” “AFD” (Albany Fire Department) “1892” (year building erected). three men and three kids in front of Fire House. Albany, New York. Ca. 1905-1910. Building is now known as Engine 1.
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  • 9501-02. Women dressed as men. (cross-dressers) and smoking cigarettes, taken by the photographer with a traveling circus on the Oregon Coast 1909.
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  • 9136-01. Lotus Isle Amusement Park. The park had a short, tragic run from 1930-1932. In this photo a car is being given away as part of the Jello Week promotion. Later in the year this photo was taken (1931) the Peacock Ballroom would burn to the ground.
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  • 9505-39. A masked luchador posing in the ring in Mexico City in the early 1930s. A wonderful portrait from the early days of Mexican wrestling. Photo by former boxer Juan Espinosa.
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  • ackroyd-00048-42. "Loprinzi, Sam. July 15, 1946" (Sam Loprinzi 1913-1996. In this year he won first place as Most Muscular Physique in America AAU. 4x5" & 8x10") (published cover of IronMan vol. 4, No. 6)
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  • 0001-E207B Lovejoy Columns, Portland, Oregon. Paintings on the pillars of the old Lovejoy Ramp created by Greek Immigrant and Artist Tom Stefopoulos from 1948 to 1952. Larry Smith made these photos to propose a newspaper article titled "God Is Love" named after one of the paintings, May 1954.
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  • 8609-A44.  "Nelscott March 16, 1960" Nelscott is now part of Lincoln City, Oregon.
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  • Y-510103-C. Skiway on its "press preview" run, January 3, 1951. Skiway began daily operation one month later.
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  • 9305-A4490-01. "Elevator. March 19, 1943" (Continental Grain Company. Port of the Dalles Elevator). The Dalles, Oregon.
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  • Y-661005A.  Lloyd Center, Chrysler auto show. Advance publicity photos. Dianne Schatz, professional ice skater. October 5, 1966 (Lloyd center before roof built over the mall)
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  • 5597Boy picking hops. Theodore Pileggi, age 10, of Sherwood, Oregon on the E. Clemens Horst hop ranch near Independence, Oregon. September 1, 1942.
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  • 9969-2673. "Jim Harlow looks into a crevasse on Eliot Glacier. September 20, 1936."
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  • 9808-A20.  “Boats. Newport” Oregon, about 1920
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  • 0003-052. Married Life. Stuart and Marian Fresk in their kitchen cleaning up. Stuart was the photography instructor for the Longview, Washington, Public Schools. They posed this photo to make into their Christmas card. November 1945. Marian is threatening Stuart with a rolling pin that she is holding next to his head. Do-the-dishes humor.
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  • 9340-01.  Louie Nine Pipes (alternately spelled Ninepipes, born 1892 in Stevensville, Montana) a Flathead Indian who lived near Arlee, Montana, and Florence Demers, photographed when she was a student at the University of Montana about 1936.  She later married Ed Bouck and became Mrs. Florence Demers Bouck, residing in the Jocko Valley. She was the sister of Louie DeMers, who owned the Demers Mercantile Co. in Arlee, Montana. (Nine Pipes information taken from his June 5, 1917 draft registration records with Lake county, formerly Missoula county, Montana)(Demers identified in 2001 by Linda Schure of Arlee, Montana)
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  • 2386 Vista house at Crown Point. April 12, 1936.
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  • 1951 Newport Crab Festival Queens waving from the Tradewinds Kingfisher boat under the Yaquina Bay Bridge.
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  • 9305-B7044. Eight Indian children at Celilo Village, May 1940. (left to right) 1=?, 2= Dewey Canapoo (also spelled Canapo), 3= Nelson Billy, 4= Wallace Albert, 5=Tommy Eli, 6= Buster George, 7= Cecil Billy, 8=Russell Billy. Dewey Joe Canapoo was born September 25, 1932 and died April 11, 1952, obituary in The Dalles Chronicle, April 13, 1952, pg. 1, col. 3. He appears to be about 8 years old in this photo. Nelson Billy died November 2, 1972 at age 43 in Portland, Oregon. Story in Oregonian, November 3, 1972, pg. 35 col. 1. Buster George of Celilo returned from Army service in Korea in April 1954. Cecil Billy of Goodnoe Hills, Washington, returned from Army service in Korea in July, 1955. <br />
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(Identifications by Celilo Village elders April 1994, additional identifications by contemporary Celilo resident September 2012) Horvath notch code #14B. Emulsion #33. Other photos taken about the same time, with the same emulsion number, are 9305-A4312-1, 9305-A4312-5, 9305-B7044, 9305-B7046.  B7046 was published in the Oregon Journal on May 12, 1940 and Everett Olmstead was credited as the photographer. 9305-A4312-5 shows a 1940 license plate on a Ford car.
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  • Y-510801-1. ‘Penny', beer drinking dog at Green Spot Tavern. August 1, 1951. 1126 SW Harrison.
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  • 9969-1135. Government Camp Hotel. May 21, 1933.
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  • 0103-A033"Port of Seattle. September 20, 1958"  Piers 52 to 55
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  • CS02489. Hung Far Low sign NW Fourth & Couch. September 17, 1981
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  • 9305-A4495-04. The Dalles Fire Department, February 16, 1945. Oregon
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  • Ackroyd 05062-3. "Burt Glinn. Life Magazine Photographer. pics of 'Frosty Winter' burlesque queen & comedian Hermie Rose. March 19, 1954"
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  • 1307C-77. Wahkeena Falls Footbridge was built in 1914. It is a semi-circular barrel arch that is 46 feet long and 8 feet wide.
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  • Ackroyd 01751-01. Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon, September 13, 1949.
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  • 1212-05. Mt. Hood, Timberline parking lot. 1958
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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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  • Y-560629-02.  Bill Haley (of Comets band) and Fan club. Heathman Hotel. June 29, 1956
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  • Y-481010-09.  Nance’s Bar B-Q Pit, 31 NE Cherry Court, between NE Williams Court and NE Halsey, Portland Oct 10, 1948 These streets do not exist anymore because this area of land was converted to the site of the Memorial Coliseum in 1957.
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  • 0805-N02A.  Portland Radio Clinic, 637 NW 23rd,, corner 23rd & Irving. 1937
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  • 9969-0233. Gateway Inn, Zigzag, Oregon, July 4, 1930.
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  • 9969-2034. Scooping out the dry hops. September 9, 1935. Riverside Hop farm, owned by A.J. Ray and Son, Inc., Newberg, Oregon.
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  • Y-480611-01.  President Truman visits Portland. June 11, 1948.
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  • 9305-B7328. Indians fishing at Horseshoe Falls, Celilo. These Indians are using stationary nets, rather than movable ones. They are holding the strings attached to their net to let them know when a fish lands, when they quickly pull the net out of the river. The board and pulley beside the Indian hanging over the platform edge supports the wire that holds the net hoop. May 1936
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  • Ackroyd 06354-74 exterior of Crab Broiler, Cannon Beach, Oregon. September 21, 1955. (Location at Cannon Beach Junction of Highway 26 and US 101, 4 miles south of Seaside. Images published in Restaurant Management magazine, January 1956, pg. 68)
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  • 9969-5163. Strawberry picker Helen Williams, who has followed farm crops for two years. May 29, 1941. working on the T. Shigeno berry farm near Helvetia, Oregon
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  • Y-580425-1.  Amato’s Supper Club, 706 SW Main, southwest corner of Broadway & Main. April 25, 1958. The PCPA Portland Center for the Performing Arts is presently on the site.
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  • 9114-4335-23. Katharine Laidlaw with orb and exotic costume posed barefoot.  January 1924.
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  • Ackroyd 00259-1. "Timberline Lodge aerials. October 16, 1947.
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  • 9969-2878. Old horse and buggy in Hillsboro. Owned by Jesse B. Bartlow, Route 2, Hillsboro. February 26, 1937. (Brown's Tin Shop, L. V. Hulit & sons Wreckers in background.)
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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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  • 0001-F48-11. September 9, 1956.  Oregon Camera Club field trip.  Younger Indian woman in traditional dress is Miss Buster George, of Celilo Village.  Older Indian woman in traditional dress is Rachel Edmo, also of Celilo Village.  (she is the mother of Ed Edmo)
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  • 9969-2376. Compressing the surface of the soil for planting corn. V. Siri, Portland, Oregon. April 11, 1936.
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  • 9969-2712. Discing being done by George Trachsel on his farm in  Beaverton. October 22, 1936. (discing breaks up the turned soil and sod resulting from plowing)
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  • Y-500904-01.  “Roy Bush of Tumwater, Washington, weighs in the 47-pound, 6 ¼-ounce salmon he caught Monday morning to win first prize of $1000 and top daily prize of $100 in the Astoria salmon derby.” Published by Oregonian. Photo taken September 4, 1950.
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