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This guy 11:10

if not being used, why not house homeless . has cafeteria, showers. classes for cots. lots of room.........

Went there in 1983 for the last half of my freshman year then transferred to Franklin high because it was a party school full of long haired rockers like me:)

do a video about the lost creek downtown, where the 405 now resides.

Using a beautiful old school to accommodate classes while kids’ actual schools are being renovated is way, way better than demolishing them. Proof that Portland isn’t SoCal. Not yet anyway

I was a freshmen in high school when that movie came out. It really did capture the reality of daily high school life.

Did you see the 1925 YMCA building that is next now. A video on the former YMCAs that are now gone would be interesting. That were instigated by prohibition I believe. Really enjoy your videos.

Looks like fort Stevens

The school looks like it's in pretty good shape for being empty for awhile. Amazing no one's tagged it!

My mom went to that high school!! And my dad went to to benson high when it was an all boys school. Both head in 80 and I love all your video and wants to go adventuring with you!

Awesome

I love going inside Hippo Hardware!

I think its more likely Evans was a gay man and he and his boarder got drunk one night and he made a move on his young boarder. The young man left and stewed for a few days. He then got paeanoid townspeople would spread rumors of him being gay as well if they found out. So, he returned and shot Evans. Now that is a plausible story but probably still not true. Makes more sense than some treasure hunter showing up randomly and saying give me the gold or I will kill ya.

Sad that Portland used to be 1000 times more beautiful back then than it was today

$655 in 1910; 2025 is about $21,000

I live on the south park blocks 🙂 really cool to see a history video on where i’m vibin at rn

Good job, excellent video.

You were so close to my house lol I’m closer to the park but near the school best part of Portland Irving neighborhood

People would dump stolen cars by rolling them down the ferry ramp. I worked in the office building at the base of the ramp and the city would pull vehicles out of there every year

Ayo I friggin luh porlih

“Vinyls”.

11:26 nobody said it was an accident. 1989, Jan 14 it airs. They never found her or received any leads. Going through casefiles, it will have a note in the file it was distributed to media and they aired the poster. Then when they read that in 1991 they redistribute it to the media and repeat the same ad a second time. Also: we don't know if it only aired twice. We only have documentation of it airing twice. We don't know how many times they ran that missing poster. You think it's so weird and unsettling because you weren't alive back then and understood how low quality our TVs and photos were. 15:08 its not fabricated. The archives that archive these news footages, and the broadcast is not going to edit things. After the fact they're going to take the piece of broadcast and air it in its full glory. The archive people don't know anything about Joanna Lopez because their job is not law enforcement and missing an endangered children. Their job is to be archival people. The phone number goes back to commander Mayo with the Cook county youth division an actual real dude who is on a task force about violent crimes against children. This is a real case it just might be cold.

I’m proud of you guys. Good stuff😶‍🌫️

I remember the electric Trolly near Oregon City in the early 1950s. I also remember electric busses running in downtown Portland, Oregon around that time. Today, in 2025 downtown is a mere ghost of its former self.

I was just talking with someone about the Lents neighborhood, specifically the New Copper Penny, for the first time in years two days ago and then this video comes out. Love it! As always, fantastic work!

Great work! Love this video. Look forward to more!

some areas in portland got better but many of them have gotten worse drug addicts float in from portland down to other areas via the expanding bus routes. when I was still working at a grocery store id see people loaded up on meth come in from the bus routes right into our store and they start yelling, screaming and then they hole up in the bathrooms and start lighting it up in there.

The only two things I think you missed in Downtown Lents are that Ramona Street was originally (before the 1929-1930 Great Renumbering) Beumauer Street, which is stamped in the sidewalk, and that the U-Haul on Foster is the first ever U-Haul retail location. Great video, Steve! Hope to see you on the streets.

I liked these then and now oregonian tours you do.

So funny I worked at the copper penny in the 90's 😅 🙂 That place went way underground and had a huge basement. The owner Saki had his office down there. He had it done up all fancy with red carpet. He was a nice old guy and he hired me personally. He was also the president of the boys and girls club at one time.🙂 That store that was an antique shop was owned by a couple that was friends with Saki's family and they came in and had coffee every day. I worked in there restaurant as a server. I was to young to waitresses in the bar though.😅 oh memories

No disrespect but it looked like a dump in the old pictures and now it looks like a cheap generic ikea/amazon warehouse apartment complex type of vibe currently. I’ve lived here for a few years now. Where in Portland had great architecture that still exists today?

Steve, is it possible to contact you by e-mail for suggestions?

Became my neighborhood since 2003, lived in the old Columbia villa before they tore it down. Lents has changed a lot, becoming a sanctuary city didn’t help.

Should of built store fronts instead of apartments

We our loosing our history everyday and nobody cares

Thanks for the good video. Good to preserve even these old structures that deserved to go - replaced by nice business below living above modern style buildings.Yes, the New Copper Penny was notorious. A classmate of mine in high school played in a band in it probably late 60s early 70s. I could hardly believe when they finally tore it down. He went to Lent's school 8th grade at least, which was in the south most part of the David Douglas district at the time. I went to the newer Cherry Park same grade. The boys from Lents were rough but good ball players. Now since 2022 I live down north of 63rd Ave and Foster Road. The big Holgate intersection with Foster area on Foster still has mostly old very interesting buildings. Take care and may the rest of 2025 go well for you and loved ones.

That odd fellows hall looks better now then before don't get much of that

I think there is some rule in Portland when they replace sidewalks that they have to re-imprint the original name stamps on the corner. The first and only time I ever saw a thong contest was at the New Copper Penny.

You are a gem Steve, thanks for all you do.

Once again, fantastic. I lived near Lents in my junior high/high school days. My dad was raised in the Lents area back in the 30's. It's seedy side was evident when I was a boy and when I was a young man. My dad remembered it being less than wholesome even way back.

Always very well done !! - we would go to the Copper Penny all the time in the 80s - and yes it was very sketchy - Its crazy to see the growth. I am not sure what happened - but tragedy is always so incredibly difficult. Good on you for moving forward. god bless my friend

Throughout the '80's the majority of DUI's given out in Multnomah County were within a mile of The Copper Penny, The Refectory, and Heidi's in Gresham. Copper Penny started as a small strip club on 92nd that became a disco, which expanded into another adjacent space, and finally took over the restaurant facing east that would be the large nightclub most people remember.

Great work! May have been in it once for a drink when it was seedy back in the 70s but familiar with seeing it since being in Portland. Good to preserve history.

I LOVE these then and now

Copper Penney ladies night.

1980s and 90s were the last great decades. I returned to Beaverton to visit in 2019. OMG. Liberals destroyed it.

I lived in the Woody Guthrie house for a year back in 2019ish

In the late 70's early 80's The Copper Penny was great. The bands were excellent and the drinks were strong. I slid in with large groups several time before my 21's birthday. However, on my birthday when I was 21 at a few minutes after midnight we went there and they refused me entrance because the backing to the driverl license picture was the wrong color. Back then they had blue for under 21 and yellow for over. I never went back there after that.

The drug store building is still there Andy, turned it into The Copper Penny. It was a pharmacy, then Andy turned it into a night club with what was rumored to be the funds of ill gotten gains. (The devils lettuce/Snowman). What is it now ? I retired to the coast. (Go M.M. ! 1974).

Its the liberal gay democrats that have destroyed this city. It used to be beautiful