It’s hard to believe anything on this bit of NE Union Avenue could still be standing but the little shop on the right, with the distinctive facade, is still on the east side of Martin Luther King Blvd., just south of Shaver Street.
(City of Portland Archives)
Vintage Portland 
What is that thing on the roof to the south? It looks like a skylight but it couldn’t be, could it?
it is probably a roof door
@Laura: It’s clearly a solar panel. 🙂 However, someone should tell them it needs to face south…
au contraire,this building is soon to be,if not already demolished.apparently being 113 yrs old is not enough to be
historic. apartments above more sterile retail space,anyone?
Yep, the last tenant, Christopher’s Grill (which had some tasty vittles), closed in Nov. 2013, looks like they are going to take this building down very soon (if it hasn’t happened in the last 2 weeks, about the last time I drove by there and noticed it still standing). More history of the building here: http://mlkinmotion.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/christophers-gourmet-grill-3/
A sad fate, I remember it as the Burger Barn the place of the infamous Possum Incident. On another note, has anybody noticed the lack of handrails on stairs in this and many other pictures?
Everything else is gone though. Street View http://goo.gl/maps/5ttbf
@Greg…Dare I ask what the “possum incident” was?
Possum Incident
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-4180-1981.html
@Greg…nevermind, I just read about it and can remember when it happened when I was a kid.
I had a paper route for the short-lived Portland Reporter that covered Union from Fremont to Broadway & remember all the businesses that were thriving at that time. It was about 1962-63 . My favorite places were the donut & candy shops.
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Amazing. i remember getting burritos there in the early 2000’s when it was “La Fonda”. I really wonder what stroke of randomness spared this little building, when so many much nicer and bigger buildings get scrapped.
Burger Barn. Interesting Place. We knew it because we were the Whirlpool ice machine rep. Tech found stuff in the ice, and it also was ice