A number man on the corner of SE Morrison Street and SE Union Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard), 1929. For more information on the number man, click here.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2009-009.2437
SE Morrison Street, 1929
Vintage Portland
Vintage Portland 
Where’s the pipe? Did he run out of tobacco?
I can’t say which corner those buildings were on but I think it’s safe to say why they’re all gone.
Robert,
He’s probably waiting to snag a cigar from the tobacco truck.
Bridge transfer and Brooklyn car line tracks, part of the
once extensive 3′ 6″ system.
Note the Weatherly Ice Cream signage in the windows. As in the Weatherly Building a block away. He was Portland’s “Ice Cream King”
Another building “re-skinned” to look more modern. Kind of amazing how often they did this back then. Seemed like every 10-15 years a building like this might get a facelift. Goes to show how much more flexible building technology was then.
Do I see the pipe bowl just below his thumb in his right hand?