The property on the far bank is the location of the US Army Corps of Engineers at 8010 NW St. Helens Rd.
This photo was likely taken from near the intersection N Crawford & N Pittsburg in St. Johns. Trees that are there now would block your view today.
ssssssteven, I get a message when you post a photograph that says “The Google Maps Embed API must be used in an iframe.” Do you have any idea what that means?
Tony the Troglodyte
This doesn’t look like 1990. Looks like 1960’s. Who knows the age of the van in the turnaround?
That turnaround is at 6400 N Pittsburgh. So, the photographer must be on the east end of the St. John’s Bridge, looking west at Forest Park, highway 30 and the south end of Linnton, and the bridge itself is just out of view to the right, Cathedral Park below. Most or all of those buildings remain.
Amazingly, the curved half of that turnaround is a separate street, and it must be if not one of the shortest streets in the city, state or world. Check out 8650-8675 N Albany Street. Gotta make that street famous!
Fyi, to all fellow map and street view posters, I have tried to post google maps links every which way, and it won’t work. I’ve also had multiple comments that didn’t post and were lost, I’m guessing because of some of the links. WordPress, the platform VP uses, simply won’t support links to certain sites like google maps. I’d suggest posting the address or name of the location you want to share.
Happy Easter and final day of Women’s History Month everyone. Happy April Fools, which was Blazer legend Kevin Duckworth’s birthday you know. Be a great day to visit his memorial dock and, enjoy the cherry blossoms across the river, and the roar of the NCAA basketball behind.
tonygreineror: Yeah, there have been problems with posting embedded images from Google Maps lately. Not sure what is the problem.
@Thorn: Albany Street is definitely intriguing! It doesn’t appear on PortlandMaps, OpenStreetMap, or Apple Maps, so I suspect it’s not real. I’ve heard that mapmakers sometimes include fake but unimportant features in order to thwart copyright violators. Perhaps that’s what this is?
Vintage Portland 
Hard to get the exact angle, but this is close
https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1711726727690!6m8!1m7!1sEeJN8qmKXXpCjEq4dgiV5Q!2m2!1d45.58681367080637!2d-122.7610395683931!3f208.02330362817722!4f-3.899937641544142!5f2.6219315995119747
The property on the far bank is the location of the US Army Corps of Engineers at 8010 NW St. Helens Rd.
This photo was likely taken from near the intersection N Crawford & N Pittsburg in St. Johns. Trees that are there now would block your view today.
ssssssteven, I get a message when you post a photograph that says “The Google Maps Embed API must be used in an iframe.” Do you have any idea what that means?
Tony the Troglodyte
This doesn’t look like 1990. Looks like 1960’s. Who knows the age of the van in the turnaround?
That turnaround is at 6400 N Pittsburgh. So, the photographer must be on the east end of the St. John’s Bridge, looking west at Forest Park, highway 30 and the south end of Linnton, and the bridge itself is just out of view to the right, Cathedral Park below. Most or all of those buildings remain.
Amazingly, the curved half of that turnaround is a separate street, and it must be if not one of the shortest streets in the city, state or world. Check out 8650-8675 N Albany Street. Gotta make that street famous!
Fyi, to all fellow map and street view posters, I have tried to post google maps links every which way, and it won’t work. I’ve also had multiple comments that didn’t post and were lost, I’m guessing because of some of the links. WordPress, the platform VP uses, simply won’t support links to certain sites like google maps. I’d suggest posting the address or name of the location you want to share.
Happy Easter and final day of Women’s History Month everyone. Happy April Fools, which was Blazer legend Kevin Duckworth’s birthday you know. Be a great day to visit his memorial dock and, enjoy the cherry blossoms across the river, and the roar of the NCAA basketball behind.
tonygreineror: Yeah, there have been problems with posting embedded images from Google Maps lately. Not sure what is the problem.
@Thorn: Albany Street is definitely intriguing! It doesn’t appear on PortlandMaps, OpenStreetMap, or Apple Maps, so I suspect it’s not real. I’ve heard that mapmakers sometimes include fake but unimportant features in order to thwart copyright violators. Perhaps that’s what this is?