The biggest change in this scene more than a half century later is that the Max tracks now go east and west on NE Holladay Street. That’s NE 13th Avenue we’re looking north on with the brand-new Lloyd Center in the background.
(City of Portland Archives)
The Chevron station is gone now but there’s much in this Sellwood area that’s still recognizeable over 50 years later. Here we’re looking west on SE Tacoma at 13th Avenue.
(City of Portland Archives)
This Temple Beth Israel synagogue was built in 1888 on SW Main Street between 12th and 13th Avenues. Its two distinctive 125-foot towers were landmarks on Portland’s early skyline. It was destroyed by fire in 1928 and replaced by the congregation’s current building in Northwest Portland.
(City of Portland Archives)
This quaint little Handy Grocery building once occupied the northeast corner of SE 13th and Powell (here looking east on Powell). I doubt that a single item in this photo still exists.
(City of Portland Archives)
The Wadhams & Kerr Building still stands on the northwest corner of NW 13th and Davis, along the Pearl’s 13th Avenue Historic District. Wadhams & Kerr was in the wholesale grocery business in 1917.
(City of Portland Archives)
