Historic Photo Archive

1930s Oregon Mountain Climbing photos used to decorate Ralph Lauren store on Madison Avenue at 72nd Street in New York in the mens department for their winter clothing area. Historic Photo Archive supplied twelve prints which are currently on display there. The prints were made from glass plate and nitrate negatives dating from the first half of the twentieth century. They were photographed on Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson.

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

Polite way of saying NO TRUCKS is soo Portland.
April 2, 1953. Terwilliger Boulevard.

What happened to Portland's Oldest House? in 1950, the Oregonian was celebrating their 100th birthday. As Portland's oldest business, they did an article considering what other old establishments were in Portland. They also looked at the oldest buildings. According to documents they examined, this house at 936 SE Pine was the oldest in the city. "In 1860 the property was owned by James B. Stephens, who then owned the entire block on which it was situated, and that in 1862 it was sold to William S. Ladd, pioneer Portland merchant and banker."
Of all the buildings this article mentioned that predate the Pioneer Courthouse (1875), as far as I can tell none of them are in existence anymore.

This is a suitable example of what is wrong with the Willamette River. Taken in 1967, it shows the Port of Portland dredge sucking up material from one of the most contaminated points on the entire river, and piping the material over to virgin wetland on Mock's Bottom. This is when Portland was filling the wetland to make it an industrial park. Mock's bottom is now contaminated with PCBs, asbestos, hydrophobic contaminants and lead from the ship repair yards at the end of Swan Island. The land will probably never be clean since buildings, parking lots and roads cover it. (aerial photo by Hugh Ackroyd, August 25, 1967)