Damage to the lighted archway on the corner of NW 3rd Avenue and NW Glisan Street, 1920.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2001-059.198.
NW Glisan Street, 1920
Vintage Portland
Damage to the lighted archway on the corner of NW 3rd Avenue and NW Glisan Street, 1920.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2001-059.198.
Vintage Portland 
you got to go to 2009 streetview to get the same building on the SW corner
https://goo.gl/maps/Tne2BEPxBaE2
Dan Haneckow has written extensively on the great light way. https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/great_light_way_3rd_st_portland_/#.W_6kKGhKjIU
and today’s view….
Don’t text and drive, people! BTW, that looks like a Phoenix Iron Works “Portland” hydrant in the foreground for you fire plug enthusiasts out there.
Love those Angellus photos. Any idea what knocked this arch over? Errant street car, perhaps?
looks like that table was going too fast, missed the turn and skidded into the arch.
Looks like the result of an accident with a trolley-street car. They were unpredictable. Now days they simply run into cars downtown.
Column basically sitting on top of the sidewalk. No wonder it knocked right over !!
Frank Leslie McGuire born 1887, died 1973 at 85. Still working part time when he passed. Held the oldest real estate license in the country at that time. Sold a record 1,250 houses in 1920. Started in business in 1908. Thought I read somewhere that he was largely responsible for “red lining” in the Port. area. Probably depends on who you talk to.
Yes, I’m not an engineer, but I’d say that footing looks a tad small for the column.
The building on the right was torn down only a few years back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Duck_(Portland,_Oregon)#/media/File:Kiernan_Building_-_Portland,_Oregon.jpg
i really miss thoes arches they so cool well built to !
quick question what are thoes colunms made of steel cast iron
Reinforced concrete wood stone hard tell from the photo would Appreciate it God bless