NE Union Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) and NE Columbia Boulevard looking south, February 8, 1934. The Interstate Auto campground and Gustin’s Tires are both visible.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2009-009.1532
NE Union Avenue, 1934
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NE Union Avenue, circa 1937
NE Union Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) and NE Columbia Boulevard looking south on Union Avenue, circa 1937.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2005-001.738
SE Belmont, 1941
This image was taken after the widening of SE Belmont Ave was completed. We are looking east on SE Belmont St. near SE 8th Ave. In this image you can see signs for East Side Food Center/Grand Central Public Market, Dolan Wrecking Co., and Richfield on the far right side of the street.
SE Belmont and 8th Ave, Feb. 18, 1941 : A2000-025.1252
E Burnside, 12th Avenue & Sandy, 1941
In this view of East Burnside where it intersects with 12th Avenue and Sandy, traffic seems to be moving in an orderly manner, perhaps aided by a traffic officer directing from the island in the middle of it all? The Tik-Tok Drive-In was going strong in 1941, seen just beyond the movie poster for “Rage in Heaven” starring Robert Montgomery and Ingred Bergman.
(City of Portland Archives)
SE 20th & Belmont, 1965
Here’s what SE 20th Avenue north to Belmont Street looked like in 1965. Since then, there have been more changes to the north of Belmont than to the south, it seems.
(City of Portland Archives)
SE Stark & 82nd, 1934
SE Stark Street seemed aptly named in this 1934 photo. Starkly populated, at least by today’s standards, very little traffic, or much of anything else, impedes this view to the west as Stark climbs over the north edge of Mt. Tabor in the distance.
(City of Portland Archives)
Overpass Construction, 1962
NE Weidler Street takes a small shoo-fly to the south while the permanent overpass over the Eastbank Freeway is being built in 1962. This view looks east on a landscape that no longer exists. You can see the overpass in the upper-right of this aerial view of the construction area.
(City of Portland Archives)
Vintage Portland 