Great detail on this 1940 image looking down on N. Broadway (bottom-left to upper-right) crossing Wheeler Avenue; N. Flint Ave. shoots off to the top. The building at upper-left and center-right are still with us, the rest are gone.
(City of Portland Archives)
Tags: Chevrolet, Hauling, Left Bank, Oregon, Portland, Storage, Sunset Motors
July 16, 2012 at 6:31 am
I-5 changed the neighborhood didn’t it? Street View: http://goo.gl/maps/4QYz
July 16, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Willamette Hauling. No idea of their ultimate disposition however just by surviving into the common carrier era means that they processed valuable PUC and ICC permits (operating authority ) that would have survived at least until de-regulation of the trucking industry. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who can trace their lineage. They may have evolved into Willamette Heavy Hauling.
Change indeed. You are a master of understatement Dave..
September 5, 2012 at 3:08 pm
[...] with it, I thought it’d be fun to share a historical perspective. A reader recently shared a post on the Vintage Portland blog that featured this intersection as it looked in 1940. Check it out [...]