Note:This is an English translation of an alien language, “This is Starship EX-2, do you read? Yes, Starship EX-2, this is base, go ahead… There is ample open land to accommodate starship landings, we can move forward with landings tonight. Infiltration of this population center will be extremely easy. I have great hope we will be successful.
I’m thinking that is McKenna Park in the center of the photo. If it is , then N Princeton is the street at the south border of the park. So the house across from the park, in the middle of the block could be 6216 N Princeton. Looking at the street view on Google maps you can see the east wall of that house matches the one in the photo. Portland maps, however lists that dwelling as built in 1939. There is a plumbing permit dated June 15, 1938. That said, I wonder if the photo is from 1939.
Anyway, not a big deal, just interesting. Also, looks like sewer hookups happened about 20 years later in 1958.
Cool photo. I like the organic foot trails, shirking the grid system.
Can anyone tell me who McKenna Park is named for?
And in the bottom left of today’s photo, at the intersection of N Wall Ave and Amherst St, there’s a strange section of wall, at least I think it’s a wall–anyone know what that might be? Could Wall Avenue actually have a wall it was named for?
Thorn, it looks to me like a cord of wood. Firewood deliveries were usually stacked up on the sidewalk like that. Here’s an example:
The “section of wall” might just be a stack of wood since homes were heated with either wood or coal before natural gas became available in the late 1950s.
Thorn, I posted a reply, but looks like it got canceled. I think it’s a stack of slab wood. This was a common way of delivery at the time. Search ‘N. Prescott Street, 1939’ on this site and you will see a stack of slab wood on the curb.
McKenna Park was named after Francis McKenna, a real estate developer around the turn of the century. He was president of the “Hub Land Co.”
Vintage Portland 
Note:This is an English translation of an alien language, “This is Starship EX-2, do you read? Yes, Starship EX-2, this is base, go ahead… There is ample open land to accommodate starship landings, we can move forward with landings tonight. Infiltration of this population center will be extremely easy. I have great hope we will be successful.
I’m thinking that is McKenna Park in the center of the photo. If it is , then N Princeton is the street at the south border of the park. So the house across from the park, in the middle of the block could be 6216 N Princeton. Looking at the street view on Google maps you can see the east wall of that house matches the one in the photo. Portland maps, however lists that dwelling as built in 1939. There is a plumbing permit dated June 15, 1938. That said, I wonder if the photo is from 1939.
Anyway, not a big deal, just interesting. Also, looks like sewer hookups happened about 20 years later in 1958.
Cool photo. I like the organic foot trails, shirking the grid system.
Can anyone tell me who McKenna Park is named for?
And in the bottom left of today’s photo, at the intersection of N Wall Ave and Amherst St, there’s a strange section of wall, at least I think it’s a wall–anyone know what that might be? Could Wall Avenue actually have a wall it was named for?
Thorn, it looks to me like a cord of wood. Firewood deliveries were usually stacked up on the sidewalk like that. Here’s an example:
The “section of wall” might just be a stack of wood since homes were heated with either wood or coal before natural gas became available in the late 1950s.
Thorn, I posted a reply, but looks like it got canceled. I think it’s a stack of slab wood. This was a common way of delivery at the time. Search ‘N. Prescott Street, 1939’ on this site and you will see a stack of slab wood on the curb.
McKenna Park was named after Francis McKenna, a real estate developer around the turn of the century. He was president of the “Hub Land Co.”