SW Front Avenue and SW Yamhill Street, circa 1930.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2009-009.716.
SW Front Avenue, circa 1930
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West Side Flood Waters, 1948
The spring flood of 1948 affected most of the properties east of SW Moody Avenue near the Ross Island Bridge. This area is now the heart of the South Waterfront district.
(City of Portland Archives)
Southwest Waterfront, 1938
Today’s South Waterfront area is trendy and expensive. Three-quarters of a century ago it was a huge expanse of Portland’s industrial waterfront. Schnitzer and Zidell, still big names in Portland industry, both got their starts here. The battleship USS Oregon was on display just south of the Hawthorne Bridge.
(City of Portland Archives)
West Side Flood Waters, 1948
High water during the flood of June, 1948, inundate low-lying and unprotected areas of Portland’s south waterfront and Ross Island Bridge.
(City of Portland Archives)
Vintage Portland 