There was a recent discussion about when Portland adopted a one-way grid downtown. Poncho gave the date of 1950 which is borne out by this photo showing new traffic control devices looking south on SW Broadway at Columbia. The one-way conversion had not been made south of this point. The Hungerford Hotel is now the Regency Apartments, and the Standard gas station only recently met it’s demise; it’s now an empty lot.
(City of Portland Archives)
Vintage Portland 
You can see a closeup of the two identical houses (the ones you can barely make out about halfway between “Oregon Art Tile” and Lincoln Hall) here
Thanks for posting that, Jack. It’s a shame to see those old Victorians got torn down. I remember some great old ones on 15th in Irvington that were torn down about the same time.
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Strange… the post office on Clay looks very similar to the building that’s in the photo… I wonder if they simply closed up the ground floor parking garage and ran with it.
Devlyn, you’re correct. See Dan’s earlier posting for a view of the post office premodel from the Broadway view:
https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/francis-auto-sales-mystery-location/
Ahh, got it. Well, that makes way more sense. I wonder why they didn’t continue using the original front doors…
The hotel was originally the St. Andrews Hotel, designed in 1926 by my architect kinsman, Ewald T. Pape: https://abt-unk.blogspot.com/2013/05/those-places-thursday-st-andrews-hotel.html