This aerial view is of the Goose Hollow area in 1947. The view is to the northeast with SW Jefferson St. leading to and from Canyon Road winding under the Vista Avenue Viaduct and Multnomah Stadium in the upper left.
(City of Portland Archives)
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Aerial View, Goose Hollow, 1947
August 24, 2012SW 4th Avenue, 1973
December 7, 2011Buildings on SW 4th Avenue facing City Hall were being readied for demolition in this 1973 image. The entire block between 3rd and 4th, Jefferson (on the right) and Madison would become Terry Shrunk Plaza. The Oregon Polytechnic building housed the Rome Cafe in this earlier Vintage Portland post.
(City of Portland Archives)
Goose Hollow, 1892
October 28, 2011Goose Hollow is shown in this 1892 photo from the hillside above. Jefferson Street cuts left-right across the bottom while 18th goes diagonally from bottom-right and crosses in front of the Exposition Building at left-center. The large building at lower-right is still with us today but the surrounding area has been filled in so that the main structure is at ground level.
(City of Portland Archives)
South Auditorium, Area II, 1967
August 9, 2011The original South Auditorium Urban Renewal District demolished 54 blocks south of Market between Front and 4th in the early 1960s. A second related, and much smaller scale, project in the late 1960s was known as Area II. It covered the area between Front and 4th, Market and Jefferson. A series in The Oregonian featured the problem of relocating the area’s low income residents and businesses; read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
(The Oregonian. Retrieved from http://infoweb.newsbank.com)
Vista Bridge, 1930s
August 8, 2011The Public Service Building and the First Congregational Church dominate the skyline as seen under the Vista Bridge and east on SW Jefferson Street, probably in the 1930s. Larry Clark supplies this scan of an old slide found at a garage sale.
Jefferson West Apartments, 1940
April 25, 2011The Jefferson West Apartment building has stood on SW Jefferson between SW 11th and 12th since 1923. I believe it’s been empty for several years as owner Portland Development Commission decides what to do with it, but in 1940 it was a busy center of commerce and entertainment.
(City of Portland Archives)
Harbor Drive & SW Jefferson, 1949
April 14, 2011Sit in this spot on the Fourth of July weekend this year and you’ll be enjoying the Waterfront Blues Festival, but in 1949 you were dodging traffic. This is Harbor Drive at the foot of SW Jefferson, looking north to the Hawthorne Bridge.
(City of Portland Archives)
