A truck towing a Council Crest streetcar at N Interstate Avenue and N Portland Boulevard, 1950. Portland Avenue later became Rosa Parks Way.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2011-007.708
N Interstate Avenue, 1950
Vintage Portland
A truck towing a Council Crest streetcar at N Interstate Avenue and N Portland Boulevard, 1950. Portland Avenue later became Rosa Parks Way.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2011-007.708
It was Portland Boulevard not Portland Avenue.
Not to split hairs here, but this truck is heading east on Portland Boulevard (Rosa Parks), crossing Interstate, not the other way around.
I don’t think that guy is being OSHA compliant.
Your research needs typo fixes.
Today: it is Portland Boulevard, not avenue; Avenues run N-S.
Yesterday: it is NW Glisan, not SW as stated. All streets north of Burnside have a N or NE or NW prefix.
Is that a Mitchell Brothers truck? They’re still going strong. I had one of their trucks run into me on I-5 in Washington. Nice folks to deal with.
Portland Boulevard
I believe this Mitchell truck is an Autocar, drove them in the fifties.
The view from May of this year:
https://goo.gl/maps/BjNf1f8xUKs
I think the guy on the top of the streetcar is making sure it clears the power and phone lines
crossing the street. Dangerous job
This is the same streetcar (#503) that we saw being hauled across the St. John’s Bridge earlier this week. Probably the same trip:
https://vintageportland.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/st-johns-bridge-1950/
I’m guessing it was being delivered to the Boy Scout troop. That could be a scout standing in front of the car.
Again…this happened in 1952 not 1950. This car languished in an undisclosed location in the hills above the town of Linton between 1950 and 52. At one time this car was loaned to San Francisco.
I wonder if they will ever do that with the old busses when they move on to a new technology.
And here is 506 being trucked to(?) Council Crest in 1950. I think it was used as a play structure till the ’60s. http://pdxhistory.com/assets/images/counciltrolleybw506.jpg