This 1963 aerial view shows Kelly Butte and surrounding area looking northeast. Much of the neighborhood in the lower left would be leveled for the I-205 freeway, Tri-Met garage, City of Portland’s Communications Services Building, and Ed Benedict City Park.
(City of Portland Archives)
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(City of Portland Archives)
July 23, 2010 at 8:23 am
To the far far left – 96th is basically now I-205. South of and parallel to Powell was cleared because it was the route for the Mt. Hood Freeway. Ed Benedict Park, Tri-Met, etc… now reside on former MHF land.
July 24, 2010 at 11:05 am
What was the massive structure on 97th and Powell?
January 30, 2012 at 3:49 pm
If I’m not mistaked Kelly Butte was home to the Portland Civil Defense heagquaters–during the Cold War era. I seem to rmember going to an open house there with my parents in the late 1950s-early 1960s. Does anyone recall same?
March 27, 2012 at 9:39 pm
The massive structure at 97th and Powell is the old Isolation Hospital.
March 28, 2012 at 7:59 am
Yeah, it was called Morningside Hospital or something. I have to consult my map collection. I have a ’64 city roadmap somewhere that shows it.
March 29, 2012 at 12:39 am
After the City Isolation Hospital closed it seems to have been taken over by a private company and turned into the “Eastport Nursing Home,” which closed in the early ’70s due to poor conditions.
March 29, 2012 at 12:52 am
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March 29, 2012 at 1:42 am
Morningside Hospital was at 96th and Stark.
March 29, 2012 at 7:42 am
Marco, remember the nursing home on Flavel Dr. that closed and got bulldozed after several patients were accidentally killed (late ’70s?). A small park today…a block or two off 52nd.
March 29, 2012 at 9:03 am
Kirk -That was before my time. Looks like you’re referring to McCarthy Nursing Home, formerly at 5368 SE Flavel Dr and current location of Hazeltine Park. I haven’t found anything about patient deaths, but it appears to have closed between ’74 and ’78.
December 4, 2012 at 11:41 am
Anyone remember the fireworks factory on 83rd and Powell past Flannagans Resturant. Exploded in the early ’60′s killing one worker.
March 16, 2013 at 5:39 pm
104th St Drive In – remember going there quite a few times in the 70′sl
March 16, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Kelly Butte was home to a Civil Defense headquarters. Here is a link to a CSB documentary featuring the center and filmed in Portland in 1957. Interesting to watch
http://archive.org/details/ADayCalledx