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  • 0001-E123B Portland, Oregon. Last days of the Portland Hotel, early August 1951
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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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  • 0001-E123A Portland, Oregon. Final days of the Portland Hotel. Early August 1951.
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  • 0001-E131-08. Razing of the Portland Hotel. Late October 1951. Photos by Gladys Smith. Taken from 14th floor of American Bank Building.
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  • 0001-E130 Razing of the Portland Hotel. Late October 1951. Photo by Gladys Smith. Taken from 14th floor of American Bank Building.
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  • 0001-E133A Snow on Southern Pacific Tracks, Brooklyn yards, Portland, December 1951.
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  • Y-680111C-15. Albina Branch Public Library. January 11, 1968 Portland, Oregon.
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  • Y-551005-15. Aerial of downtown Portland, Hawthorne Bridge. October 5, 1955.
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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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  • Y-480130-01. Night view of fog at SW 5th & Oak, January 30 1948. Published the next day as "Homeward bound Portland traffic Friday night was slowed by the fog blanket which the weather bureau reported extending from Kelso, Wash., on the north to Salem on the south. Photographer’s camera points south along S. W. 5th avenue at Oak in this picture, made at about 6:30 P. M." page 4.
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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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  • 470709.  Broadway & Washington, Portland, looking north in the rain. July 9, 1947.
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  • Ackroyd 01052-1 Mecca Club, SW Stark at 13th. October 15, 1948, Portland Oregon
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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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  • 0001-E207A Lovejoy columns, NW 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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  • 1003-09. Mississippi & Shaver, SE corner, Portland, Oregon, September 1991
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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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  • 0001-E207C. 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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  • OPS_22-TT05.  End of the war parade on SW Broadway. V-J Day. Oregon Journal newspaper on dashboard.
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  • Y-480203A. Portland Transit Co. old & new.  On left is PT trolley 417 with AB marking, indicating Alberta St. line. On right is new bus #910 with Irvington Sign. Building on left is at NE 29th & Alberta. February 3, 1948.  This photo was published in the Portland Transit Co.’s 1947 Annual Report (which was published in 1948). Caption: “Walt Baker, trolley skipper since 1911, greets Merrit Lutman, pilot of new Mack bus” (The restaurant on the left is now Bernie's Southern Bistro)
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  • African American Oregon Fraternal Association, commonly known as “Frat Hall”, at 1412 N. Williams. May 26, 1940.  This was demolished around March, 1958 to make room for the Memorial Coliseum.  The Rose Garden Arena was built on the site. James Wasson, photographer
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  • Y-480125-02.  Center St. yards. Holgate overpass is center of photo, looking east. On right PT Co. yards. On left SP Roundhouse. January 25, 1948
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  • Y-470912. "Chinese merchants from all parts of the United States are meeting in Portland September 10 to15 for the annual Hip Sing association convention. As many as 200 delegates are expected for the convention which is being held at decorated association headquarters, 211 NW 3rd avenue. The Chinese fraternal association, more than 100 years old, has a United States membership of more than 5000. Last year's convention was held in New York City." caption published in Oregonian 9/13/47 pg. 10. NW 3rd between Davis & Everett. September 12, 1947
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  • Y-680228B-07.  Aerial view of Emanuel Hospital and the heart of the Black business district in inner N and NE Portland, Oregon. Most of this was demolished for a proposed hospital expansion, which lost its funding. February 28, 1968. Fremont Bridge exit ramp lower left.
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  • Y-680228B-06.  Aerial view of Emanuel Hospital and the heart of the Black business district in inner N and NE Portland, Oregon. Most of this was demolished for a proposed hospital expansion, which lost its funding. February 28, 1968.
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  • Ackroyd C04448-2. "Port of Portland. stock. Aerials: Swan Island drydock. December 15, 1977"
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  • Ackroyd 02095-2 looking west on N. Broadway showing intersection of Vancouver. March 28, 1950. The large building on the left with the Plymouth billboard was the Dude Ranch. Portland, Oregon.
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  • Y-590128-01. War Memorial in Park Blocks, pigeons. January 28, 1959
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  • Ackroyd 02095-5. looking south–west from corner of Vancouver showing Broadway, and curve in road to bridge. March 28, 1950. The large building on the left with the Plymouth billboard was the Dude Ranch. Portland, Oregon.
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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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  • Ackroyd 11972-5  NAACP picketing City Hall. September 30, 1963
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  • Ackroyd 11972-4.  NAACP picketing City Hall. September 30, 1963
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  • Ackroyd 00010-02. Fish Grotto, 1039 SW Stark, corner 11th, August 4, 1947.
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  • Ackroyd 00825-1. "Redmond’s On The Hill. July 13, 1948" (9589 Southwest Barbur Blvd. Portland, later it became Ford’s Restaurant, which recently went out of business)
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  • 9318-01. Young Black boy standing next to a group of bicyclists, Portland, Oregon, about 1910
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  • Y-470911-02. NW 23rd & Johnson.  Old lady being evicted. Goods on the sidewalk. Caption: “Woman, 75, ousted from her apartment by constable so landlady can renovate. Miss Irene Orth sits dejectedly on a stepladder amid furniture moved from her five-room apartment at 732 NW 23rd avenue on a district court eviction order Thursday. She said she intended to spend Thursday night guarding her belongings and declined police assistance.” September 11, 1947.
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  • Y-70911-01. NW 23rd & Johnson.  Old lady being evicted. Goods on the sidewalk. Caption: "Woman, 75, ousted from her apartment by constable so landlady can renovate. Miss Irene Orth sits dejectedly on a stepladder amid furniture moved from her five-room apartment at 732 NW 23rd avenue on a district court eviction order Thursday. She said she intended to spend Thursday night guarding her belongings and declined police assistance." September 11, 1947.
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  • ackroyd 01317-07  Frank Chevrolet Co., 5201 NE Union. (now Vanport Square) February 28, 1949
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  • Ackroyd 00052-2. “The Beaver Restaurant. August 15, 1947” 2384 NW Thurman
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  • ackroyd 00887-2. Al & Morry Chevron Station, 5141 SE Woodstock, Portland Oregon, August 13, 1948
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  • First National Bank Building, SW 5th & Stark. April 19, 1950
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  • “Jackson Tower, Broadway from Taylor” July 1, 1950 (YMCA on right)
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  • “Jackson Tower, Yamhill & Broadway” (looking east on Yamhill) July 1, 1950
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  • YWCA building SW Broadway & Taylor, June 7, 1949
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  • Ackroyd C03408-3. the Fremont Bridge steel arch span being lifted into position. March 16, 1973.
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  • 1003-23. Looking north on N. Mississippi from Fremont, September 1991
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  • 1003-23.  Looking north on N. Mississippi from Fremont, September 1991
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  • 1003-08. 4000 N. Mississippi building, at Shaver, September 1991
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  • 1003-07.  Rejuvenation Hardware in the Gurlington Building, corner of N. Mississippi & Skidmore, Palmer House in background, September 1991.
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  • 0503-01.  Wilson Chambers funeral home,  shortly after construction in 1933, later known as the Little Chapel of the Chimes, and now McMenamins Chapel Pub. 430 N Killingsworth, on the SE corner of Killingsworth & Commercial. This photo shows the side of the building facing N. Commercial street.
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  • OPS_22-005A. Tom Stefopoulos and the Lovejoy Columns, about 1950. Photo by Joan Peacock.
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  • Y-551005-03.  Aerial of future site  of Memorial Coliseum, looking NW from NE Broadway. October 5, 1955.
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  • Y-551005-01.  aerial view of the proposed Exposition site (now Memorial Coliseum) between Broadway & Steel Bridges. Looking south. October 5, 1955.
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  • Y-551005-02.  aerial view of the proposed Exposition site (now Memorial Coliseum) between Broadway & Steel Bridges. Looking north. October 5, 1955.
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  • Y-480200-01. Night view of 72nd Mississippi bus on SW Broadway at Washington. Notice the cobblestones and trolley tracks in Washington St. Liberty Theatre, Benson Hotel and Blitz Weinhard sign in background. 1948 license plate. Published on February 25, 1948 in PTCo. advertisement. February, 1948 photo.
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  • Y-760723B-10. Emanuel Hospital. Fremont Bridge ramps. July 23, 1976
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  • Y-541125-05.  Murder at the Mysterious Billy Smith Tavern, 1500 North Wheeler, November 25th, 1954.
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  • Ackroyd 00072-28. "Montgomery Ward Warehouse. May 17, 1947." exterior view shows the southwest corner of NW 5th & Hoyt.
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  • Y-480530-02.  “A man in a suit and hat carries a baby girl. His wife walks just behind him to his right. They are David Kizer, 32, and Ruth Kizer, 19. He carries their daughter, Barbara, 11 days shy of 1 year. They and others walk with a determined stride on North Denver Avenue.” (excerpt of caption published in the Oregonian, May 24, 1998, page M2.) May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-01. Three survivors, including a boy clinging to man, wade through waist-deep water at Entrance Circle in Vanport. The man carrying the boy is Roy Ludwig. The boy is Earl Woods, age 5.  May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480215.  The second Morrison Bridge, built in 1905, was a swing bridge that opened by rotating on a central pinion. On February 15, 1948, the sternwheeler Jean, a Willamette River paddlewheel steamboat, was moving down the river through the Morrison Bridge. Before the Jean could clear the bridge it swung to close and knocked the wheel house off the boat. The bridge was replaced with the present Morrison bridge in 1958.
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  • 750430D-01. Emanuel Hospital, land cleared. April 30, 1975 The PDC identified 209 houses and the core business section of the Black community to clear. Neighbors created an association which vigorously opposed the condemnations but was unsuccessful. Between 1950-1980, the number of homes in Albina fell from 5072 to 2169, which is over half gone. This is remarkable because the demolitions occurred before the funding was approved. The political machine behind the demolitions was unstoppable. The PDC refused all further community proposals to use the space. This oblique aerial photograph shows the scars of removed buildings. It is looking north and slightly east. The curved street on the left is Kerby. At the bottom is Russell. On the right is the twin streets of Williams and Vancouver. Many of these blocks today remain parking lots or vacant land.
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  • Y-500622B-01. car wreck in Guilds Lake housing (black temporary housing) Address of house is 3863. Pacific Wire Rope Co. at 3615 NW St. Helens Road. June 22, 1950 Truck crash on NW St. Helens road, which killed a pedestrian and came to rest on an occupied unit at Guilds Lake Courts.
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  • Y-480615-1.  Bringing trailers to Guilds Lake to provide housing for Vanport victims. June 15, 1948
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  • Ackroyd 00072-30. "Montgomery Ward Warehouse. May 17, 1947." exterior view shows the west side of NW 5th between Glisan & Hoyt.
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  • Ackroyd 00072-29. "Montgomery Ward Warehouse. May 17, 1947." exterior view shows the northwest corner of NW 5th & Glisan.
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  • Y-470823-02.  Council Crest Trolley 505 crossing Vista bridge, looking NW. August 23, 1947.
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  • Y-470823-03.  Council Crest Trolley 508 crossing Vista bridge, looking NW. August 23, 1947
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  • Ackroyd 03645-1. "Pagoda Restaurant. June 4, 1952" (3839 NE Broadway. Pagoda closed December 31, 2008 after 68 years in operation. The building was stripped of its facade and remodeled as a Key Bank. The facade was colored by lead based paint and could not be preserved because of the hazards.)
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  • Ackroyd 00078-48. "Western Skyways. March 21, 1947. Station wagon." Parked in front of Wolfard Motor Co., 1207 West Burnside. Across the street from the Crystal Hotel. Mecca Hotel sign.
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  • Y-470823-01.  Council Crest Trolley 505 crossing a bridge near Council Crest, August 23, 1947.
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  • Ackroyd 01599-1. "Neon Sign Service. Joe Fisher’s showrooms on W. Burnside at 14th, June 27, 1949." This building was demolished to make room for the I-405 stadium freeway.
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  • 9304-140. A woman wearing stylish white driving gloves in a new 1916 Overland four door auto. Location is in front of the historic United States Customhouse at NW Davis at Broadway, on the NW Corner (camera looking NE) in Portland, Oregon.  All three buildings are still standing. Photo taken winter 1915-16, likely for the Auto show held nearby at the Armory in January 1916.
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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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  • Ackroyd 22718-2 "Texaco Inc. copy photos of historical prints of plant. April 24, 1991" (original print "Brubaker Aerial Surveys" #s 38033,38032 dated 1938. (4x5". DEQ Site ID: 169, Texaco Portland Terminal, 3800 NW St. Helens Rd. also known as Equilon Portland Terminal.)
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  • Ackroyd 22718-3 "Texaco Inc. copy photos of historical prints of plant. April 24, 1991" (original print "Brubaker Aerial Surveys" #s 38033,38032 dated 1938. (4x5". DEQ Site ID: 169, Texaco Portland Terminal, 3800 NW St. Helens Rd. also known as Equilon Portland Terminal.)
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  • Ackroyd 22718-1/3 "Texaco Inc. copy photos of historical prints of plant. April 24, 1991" (original print "Brubaker Aerial Surveys" #s 38033,38032 dated 1938. (4x5". DEQ Site ID: 169, Texaco Portland Terminal, 3800 NW St. Helens Rd. also known as Equilon Portland Terminal.)
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  • Y-530624A. Frank Penner, barber, Sovereign Hotel shop, June 24, 1953
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  • Y-530624B.  Frank Penner, barber, Sovereign Hotel shop, June 24, 1953
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  • Y-480418-24. Celilo Village longhouse, Feast of the First Salmon dinner. April 18, 1948. The purpose of this annual feast was to give thanks and welcome the first salmon to start the spring run up the Columbia River. With the beginning of each year's new salmon run, Celilo Indians could eat fresh fish instead of the dried salmon they preserved from the year before. Historically this was expected to be the second or third week of April, but the Indians would begin the celebration only after the fish actually appeared. Just the year before, in 1948, Chief Tommy Thompson had gone to the Warm Springs to invite all the Indians to Celilo for the feast on the weekend the fish were anticapated, but when the fish didn't run he had to postpone the ceremony for another week. And nine years before, in 1940, the feast was held on the first weekend of April, at the time it was said to be the earliest the feast had ever been held. Attendance had ranged from, according to newspaper reports, 47 Indians in 1938, rising to 600 at this one. The following year, in 1949, the feast was again postponed due to no fish. With the end of Celilo in the forseeable future, crowds continued to grow and finally, in 1956, at the last Feast of the First Salmon before the innundation, unseasonably warm weather in the late winter thawed the ice fields and Celilo falls flooded making fishing impossible. Celilo Indians were forced to buy 400 pounds of salmon on the commercial market in Portland to feed the crowd, which the newspaper reported as being comprised of "More white folks with cameras than Indian fishermen with dipnets." Ever since the falls were covered, the feast has been held at a pre-arranged time.
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  • Y-480418-04. Celilo Village longhouse, Feast of the First Salmon dinner. April 18, 1948. Standing in rear, Chief Tommy Thompson and Henry Charlie. The purpose of this annual feast was to give thanks and welcome the first salmon to start the spring run up the Columbia River. With the beginning of each year's new salmon run, Celilo Indians could eat fresh fish instead of the dried salmon they preserved from the year before. Historically this was expected to be the second or third week of April, but the Indians would begin the celebration only after the fish actually appeared. Just the year before, in 1948, Chief Tommy Thompson had gone to the Warm Springs reservation to invite all the Indians to Celilo for the feast on the next  weekend when the fish were anticapated, but when the fish didn't run he had to postpone the ceremony for another week. And nine years before, in 1940, the feast was held on the first weekend of April, at the time it was said to be the earliest the feast had ever been held. Attendance had ranged from, according to newspaper reports, 47 Indians in 1938, rising to 600 at this one. The following year, in 1949, the feast was again postponed due to no fish. With the end of Celilo in the forseeable future, crowds continued to grow and finally, in 1956, at the last Feast of the First Salmon before the innundation, unseasonably warm weather in the late winter thawed the ice fields and Celilo falls flooded making fishing impossible. Celilo Indians were forced to buy 400 pounds of salmon on the commercial market in Portland to feed the crowd, which the newspaper reported as being comprised of "More white folks with cameras than Indian fishermen with dipnets." Ever since the falls were covered, the feast has been held at a pre-arranged time.
    Y-480418-04.tif
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