This fire fighter’s rock garden was located at Station 32 in St. Johns, 1934. One of a few such gardens located at fire stations around Portland at that time, this garden was in front of the former St Johns City Hall building where the fire station and the Police Bureau’s North Precinct were located.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2010-019.14
This image of Engine 3 illustrates a transition from horse drawn fire engines to motorization. This American LaFrance steam engine was originally made to be pulled by a horse team, but was retrofitted with a Christie motorized tractor. By 1920 all Portland fire apparatus was motorized. Circa 1917.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, Engine 3, A2001-083, circa 1917.
Proposed structures for the Japanese Garden, circa 1963.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, Proposed structures for the Japanese Garden, circa 1963, A2013-007
A proposed general site plan for the Japanese Garden, circa 1962. The plan was produced by Japanese landscape architect P. T. Tono.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, Plan forthe Japanese Garden, A2013-007, circa 1962
Children gathering at Vanport Child Service Center No. 1, 1944.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2001-025.636
SW Broadway looking northeast toward the Hilton Hotel, 1969.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, SW Broadway looking northeast toward the Hilton Hotel, 1969.
NE Fremont Street at NE 14th Avenue, looking west, 1963.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, NE Fremont Street looking west from NE 14th Avenue(ZC 4309) , 1963, A2011-013.
