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61 images Created 14 Mar 2021

Vintage images of southeast Portland, Oregon.
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  • 9969-540616-1. "Portland skyline at evening. Railroad switch train. June 16, 1954" Locomotive in train yard, looking south from the Burnside Bridge. In the foreground is the land from Ankeny to Oak between Water and Second avenue.
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  • 9969-7240. Portland flood, with switching trains operating near the Burnside Bridge. May 30, 1948.
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  • Ackroyd 08267-2 "Portland aerial looking north from Hawthorne Ave near Union Ave. April 22, 1958” (5x7" inner SE Portland)
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  • Ackroyd 08267-1 "Portland aerial looking north from Hawthorne Ave near Union Ave. April 22, 1958”
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  • 9345-51.  East Burnside looking west showing corner of Grand, with MLK and Burnside bridge in the background. Arcadia Hotel (389 East Burnside), Postill grill and fountain (20 Grand N). Night view. Grand Ave. is decorated for Halloween with pumpkins and cats hanging from the overhead street wires. ca. 1926-1930.
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  • 9345-52 A. Grand looking south, showing the corner of Pine. Western Auto Supply Co. (34 Grand Ave), Eureka Printing Co (33 Grand) W. C. Justice Real Estate (41 Grand). 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..
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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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  • 9345-57. Grand looking north from the corner of Salmon. Union Motor Co. (220 Grand). Bee Hive Auto (191 Grand) The photograph was made in 1926 for the City of Portland as a study of the streetlights.
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  • 9345-58. The west side of Grand Av. between SE Hawthorne and SE Clay. Tacoma Brewing Co., card room, New French Bakery (291 Grand), Cady apartments (291 1/2 Grand), Italian Importing Co. (probably not the Italian Market Grocery which was at 253-255 Grand). Excellent shot of the fire alarm box. The photograph was made in 1926 for the City of Portland as a study of the streetlights.
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  • Aerial view of inner SE Portland, Oregon. 1947
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  • ackroyd-00067-42. "Rose Festival Parade. Aerials. June 13, 1947 (Eastside business district.)
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  • Ackroyd 00363-3. United Finance Co. December 9, 1947. Building on northeast corner of Grand & East Burnside. Building still there with modernized facade.
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  • Ackroyd 00058- 33. "Oriental Theatre. Interiors & exteriors. February 7, 1947" 822 SE Grand. interior, audience seating, view from stage
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  • Ackroyd 00058- 34. "Oriental Theatre. Interiors & exteriors. February 7, 1947" 822 SE Grand. interior, lobby and stairways
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  • Ackroyd 00058- 33. "Oriental Theatre. Interiors & exteriors. February 7, 1947" 822 SE Grand. interior, lobby and stairways
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  • "Oriental Theatre. Interiors & exteriors. February 7, 1947" 822 SE Grand. interior, lobby, exterior  and stairways
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  • CS03175. Bagdad Theater, SE Hawthorne, November 1986
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  • Simon 039. Arden Ice Cream, SE 20th & Main, August 3, 1951
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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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  • Rose Festival Parade. SE 50th & Hawthorne. June 12, 1948. "Standard Oil company, with a scene from Arabian Nights, took top honors in the commercial classification of the 1948 floral parade Saturday." (Location is corner of SE 50th & Hawthorne)
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  • 0001-E222-01. 18th & Mcloughlin, SE Portland. Searchlights at the grand opening of The Corral, Char-Glo Broiled Hamburgers, 5145 SE McLoughlin, SE 18th Ave. & 99E, Presently site of the Blush night club. February 16, 1955.
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  • Ackroyd 02064-1. "Oregon Sports Service. Night shots of buildings for score card ads. March 7, 1950"  (Fabres Drive-In. 5145 SE McLaughlin. Torn down to build The Corral in 1955, SE 18th Ave. & 99E. Presently site of the Blush night club.)
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  • ackroyd_02064-2. Mill Stream Inn, tavern, 8317 SE McLoughlin. March 7, 1950 (south of Umatilla St. Now the Acropolis)
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  • Night view of Bell's Drive In at the east end of the Ross Island Bridge.
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  • Ackroyd 03653-4  "standard Oil Co. Burns Brothers station exteriors. June 10, 1952" (621 SE Union Ave. between Washington and Alder.
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  • Ackroyd 03928-1. "Richfield. night photo station at 39th & Belmont. Johnson's Richfield. October 10, 1952" (4x5")
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  • Ackroyd_04239-15. "Virgil Watkins Used Cars. Watkins & McAvoy. 4716 SE Powell. March 27, 1953"
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  • Ackroyd 10324-2. "Darigold Dairy. Exterior. May 22, 1961" (Dairy Cooperative Assn, 2720 SE 6th.)
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  • 9969-0388. Sunrise from Mt. Tabor Park. March 1, 1931. Portland, Oregon
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  • Ackroyd C00386-2 "Shell Oil Co. station at SE Harrison St & Hwy 99, Milwaukie Oregon. August 20, 1958"
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  • Y-660805-07. Tom Peterson TV shop. 82nd & Foster. August 5, 1966
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  • Y-510215-1. Southern Pacific engine # 5003 (# 3-663) coming along Eastmoreland Golf and McLaughlin at Tacoma. February 15, 1951.
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  • 0001-B10. Valentine Flowers and Cupid's Arrow. "Bubbles Flower Shop" 1631 SE Bybee, on the corner of Milwaukee Ave.) The Valentine's day window display cleverly arranges an arrow to appear to be going right through the window glass into a heart-shaped floral arrangement.  This building is still standing. (2001: occupied by Crantford's Flowers). (2014: occupied by Nectar Frozen Yogurt Lounge)  Photograph ca. 1939
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  • 0001-C45B Barto's grocery, 8088 SE 17th, corner of Tacoma (7-11 there now. Barto's stood until 1961 before demolition.) photo before 1956
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  • 0001-E133A Snow on Southern Pacific Tracks, Brooklyn yards, Portland, December 1951.
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  • 0001-E226. Powell Blvd at SE 17th, Railroad crossing, before the Powell underpass was built. Looking west down Powell toward Portland. March 13, 1955
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  • ackroyd 00887-2. Al & Morry Chevron Station, 5141 SE Woodstock, Portland Oregon, August 13, 1948
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  • ackroyd-01363-3. "Oregon Sports Service. Exteriors of buildings. March 28, 1949" (Ming's Drive-In, 5006 SE Powell, corner Foster. Two years later, this building changed hands and was remodeled, and this building address became 5005 SE Foster
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  • 9115-CT06. Continental Motel, 800 East Burnside, & Wade’s Restaurant. Now the Doug Fir. Portland, Oregon, 1960s
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  • CS03269. East end Sellwood Bridge, October 22, 1977
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  • CS03206. SE 70th & Gladstone looking north to Mt. Tabor. January 1993
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  • CS03185. SE 92nd & Foster. Lents. August 1993
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  • CS03174. Douglas Building, SE Hawthorne & 35th. November 1989
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  • CS03159.  SE 11th & Harrison, April 1, 1973. Jolly Inn tavern and Sisters’ Coffee Shop, with apartments
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  • ackroyd_04239-16. "Jim Corno & Sons. produce man. March 27, 1953"
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  • Ackroyd 03408-4. "Kaiser Frazer Corp. Tonkin Motor Co. February 6, 1952" store at SE Grand at Oak.
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  • Ackroyd 03408-3. "Kaiser Frazer Corp. Tonkin Motor Co. February 6, 1952" store at SE Grand at Oak.
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  • Ackroyd 03408-2. "Kaiser Frazer Corp. Tonkin Motor Co. February 6, 1952", "Mr. Tonkin & son Marvin" (4x5")
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  • Ackroyd 06187-6. "Waverley Country Club. groups. July 12, 1955"
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  • Ackroyd 06187-2. "Waverley Country Club. groups. July 12, 1955"
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  • Ackroyd 01363-1. "Oregon Sports Service. Exteriors of buildings. March 28, 1949" (Merhars Drive-In, 5629 SE 82nd, between Ellis & Reedway, just south of Foster)
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  • 0001-C45 Stop and Swap, on SE 17th, corner of Tacoma. Before 1956.
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  • Y-471224-01. Trolley accident, derailed, at 128th & Foster. Trolley #1100, Bellrose. December 24, 1947. Night photo.
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  • ackroyd_02730-9. Sellwood. aerials. Snow over city. March 9, 1951
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  • 9903-360A. Arb's Auto Service, on the southeast corner of SE 40th & Hawthorne (3966 SE Hawthorne) Portland, Oregon. Chevy auto. June 1956.
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  • 8609-A69. Transistor Radio Prize Winner. This woman has just won the radio as a prize at Regal Gas, 39th & Powell, Portland, Oregon. February 1957. (Location is now an Astro station.)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • p-8223. The neon sign at The Hot Cake House on SE Powell Blvd. in Portland, Oregon. 2011 photo.
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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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