This stretch of SW 2nd Avenue, where it crosses SW Taylor, was dominated by parking lots in 1958. World Trade Center Building 1 would rise on this lot on the immediate right. The Strowbridge Building can be seen in the right distance on SW Yamhill Street.
(City of Portland Archives)
Tags: Atlas Batteries, Atlas Tires, Chevron, Columbia Empire Market, Director Furniture, Gevurtz Furniture, Gospel Mission, History, K&M Parking, Laurel Hotel, Manor Furniture, Portland, Portland Seed, Steel Bridge
December 28, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Boy, everyone was a Chevron dealer back then! Nowadays it’s hard to even find a gas station downtown.
Several familiar names here(and 3 furniture stores!): Director, Gevurtz, Union Gospel Mission, and the ubiquitous Columbia Empire Meat Market truck.
January 1, 2011 at 9:30 pm
The majority of downtown parking lots were APCOA parking lots (Airport Parking Company Of America) and their contract was with Chevron/Standard exclusively. Their main offices were located on SW Broadway, just steps away from Burnside.
May 31, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Dang! I want to see the building on the other side of 2nd! (To the left off-picture.) I want to see an old picture of 915 SW 2nd Ave when it was newer, before it became the ramshackle moss-overgrown structure it is now, with half its windows bricked up.