@3:55 skateboarders likely poured that concrete so the wall could be turned into a skatespot. Anyone ever been down to Burnside skatepark under the bridge at SE 2nd?
yeah its an industrial area now and the skatepark is just a dilapidated cleared out area. It used to be completely fenced around but it's been years since I've been on that side of town. I currently live in Portland, Oregon and these are great remembrances. Not being a Portland native, but having lived here the last 20 years I appreciate this video and all the great stuff it portrays. Portland has gone downhill since the turn of the millennium and it's no longer the weird fun city it used to be. Now it's just people struggling for something to do. Sad really.
Yeah, I used to walk down there with my kids so they could skate. We were the first ones there once, and my youngest (5 or 6) went over to that one steep bowl, looked in and said calmly, "Hey, there's dead guy in the bowl." Turned out he was just passed out, but it I still marvel at how my first grader was so collected seeing his first "corpse", lol. We lived just off Hawthorne and went to the Bagdad and Cinemagic. Great place to raise kids imo.
Definitely appreciate these videos so I can find cool history when creating my recreations of Portland series. Keep them coming Steve, love the work you do to keep Portland history alive!
Once again a great show. I get stressed when you say pictures from the 50's and 60's are old but you are right. I didn't think it was old when I was growing up.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorianI always think of everything in black and white as old. Once they introduced color, it becomes "modern." But that's just me. 😏
The building at 24 and sandy was replaced in the 60 with timberline dodge and when the dodge dealership closed that building was converted to what you see now
I'm so glad they only altered the milk building instead of completely demolishing it. I bet people drive by there all the time and wonder why it's shaped the way it is. It's a shame modern architecture is so non-descript now. Great video Steve!
Then and Now segments are definitely my favorite. I'd love to see one on Northwest 23rd Avenue and the site of the 1905 Lewis & Clark exposition. 40 years ago, I lived on Northwest 22 and Wilson in a Victorian style house built around 1900. The house is still there, one of the few remaining, most of that neighborhood was demolished when US 30 was extended off the Fremont Bridge in the late 1980s. I'd love to find an old picture of the house. Thanks for all your research and work!
Just wanted to say that I love your videos ! With me being a local now for the last 10 years , the videos really help to give me a glimpse into the past . I'm a big history guy so these videos really help to see what used to go where , I'm always curious about stuff
Hi Steve - I appreciate all your hardwork and research of Portland "Then and Now". I grew up here and I remember alot of the changes that took place. Keep up the good work. Thanks - CH
My tavorite part is when you got the wrong spot, but then went through the process of figuring out where it actually was and showed us. Just like I do when hunting on google earth for old photo modern locations. Really neat to see.
Steve I am so glad to see how much your channel has grown but I am not surprised. You sure have been consistent and I'm glad your hard work is paying off. Your content is really great.
8:46 I've always loved that building across the street. For as long as I can remember - that lower corner spot was a vintage/second hand furniture store. It's been years since it's been occupied. Not sure if the apartments above are still in use. I always was curious about them.
I pray portland gets back to the way it was my family and I visited twice every summer and we miss it terribly. It just got to unsafe and trashed .praying it cleans up ❤🙏🏻absolutely love portland !
I just found a couple of your videos in the last few days. I was at Reed from 1979-1985 (I took a year or two off :) ), and I haven't been back to Portland since, even though I LOVED it and still miss it. One day I'll get back there. But anyway, so far I haven't recognized most of the places you've featured--it's been a LONG time (I've been trying to remember stuff like which bridge we used to take downtown, and the name of the big street that led to it--there was a great deli there) and I think you've been doing neighborhoods where I didn't spend time back then. Of course, I recognize the mountain in the background in many of your images! But thanks for bringing back my memories of Portland, and I'm looking forward to seeing more.
@@raincadeifyThat was probably the area where I was LEAST likely to get lost! I knew where the Safeway and the bar we all used to go to were, so I was good. 😎
@@n.ciebevilaqua3603 the safeway is now a bi mart, and the IGA is a safeway. Woodstock is pretty hoppin' these days. (yes, the lutz is still there... I haven't been in a while but I bet they still have PBR.)
It's fascinating how in most before and after pictures, there seems to be more trees and plants. Seems to me Portland has become greener over the years.
3:33 Once Apon A Time - Portland had a casket culture back in the day. They ended around the 2000's, the Mom & Pop shops in Portland and local areas used to number 6 or 7 throughout the 20th century.
Really enjoy your before & after pictures. You clearly try hard to line up the views well. As born & raised in Portland 68 year old man, in my younger days my family spent a lot of time going to specialty stores located in the Hollywood district looking for shoes that would fit my extra wide but small feet. We went to the Alex Volchuck`s boot & shoe shop on Sandy located on the south side of the street. Also there used to be a 7- UP bottling plant on the north side of Sandy around the mid-30s streets. My elementary school had a field trip there where we saw the glass bottles washed & refilled after being checked for defects.
Awesome video of PDX, I use to live in Portland from ‘96-2007 and it was great looking at the SE area of the city. Along 58:28 with Powell, Sandy and you having the old photos to compare was great. You were close to an old friends home around 33 SE. Thanks so much! 💙👏🏾
Love this! I grew up near 18th and Fremont in the 70s-80s, but I spent most of my free time in Hollywood district. My husband and I met at the YMCA on 39th.
Sandy Blvd was Oregon Hwy 30. Steigerwald is pronounced, st-eye-grr-waald. Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge, located just east of Washougal, WA on Hwy 14, is named after the dairy farm which was once located there.
Steve, as a new Oregonian and lover of history you are giving me great story’s! I’ve been visiting many towns new to me, plus Portland and thanks for showing me parts I probably would never see. From CG Oregon.
ive literally climbed onto a train in downtown on naito, to get to work. i was riding a biketown bike and was late and this train was so slow. i abandoned the bike, hopped on the train crossed to other side and hopped off within a 60ft distance as it was going.
24th and Sandy I used to go to Benson in 70 and I'd walk over to the Dodge dealer and look at all the brand new cooters Challengers dusters roadrunners all that stuff
I can confirm that the first tree is a silver maple and I would definitely agree it is the same tree in the picture. The second one is a horse chestnut and it looks to be the same in both pictures. Excellent work!
Thanks Im a Oregonian born in mis 70s in Grants pass but some of my jobs had me in Portland driving around so and I always loved history and the different snap shots in time.
I’m actually not sure. I want to say Foster Road was more deliberate but I actually should look into that some more. I’ve wanted to do a video about Sandy Blvd History and Foster Road could be a side project to that.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorian Foster heading East goes right into what used to be Lent's Junction- a little train stop and I think a post office. It was considered it's own little town at one time.
Steve very nice job! I was born and raised in Portland and I can relate so much to everything you are doing. Really awesome job thank you very much! I used to watch double features at the Hollywood theater for a buck fifty! We would also frequent the Hollywood bowl! I lived All over Portland but had a stint just off 42nd and Fremont.
Jump back to time… Thank you so much for this video. I love all the work that you put into it. My old stomping grounds and can familiarize allot of it. Thank you.
Hello been watching you for a long time now my wife Hillary and I have enjoyed many of your videos. Ahh Sellwood takes us back. You should do a video on my secret hood aka Montivilla 😮
There was a show I watched about 40 years ago about the theaters of Portnad, I wish I could find it again, because there were so many amazing places around this town. The first one was Tiny and I think showed silent movies. It was either on channel 10 or cable access. They had tons of old photos.
You're in my neighborhood! I'm at Dear Sandy all the time -its just to the right of the open building at 9:20. I think it just cleared out in the last 3-4 months, but I don't think it's in immediate danger of being torn down. Love Hollywood Theatre as well. Not sure if you mention it, but they just did a ton of restoration work on the front of the building
Wonderful video, Steve! Thank you for caring about history. You made me laugh several times too! Thank you for the humor; especially when you were walking around the corner and didn’t know what you would find. I think the blue on that building is called Williamsburg blue.
The area of Powell Blvd that dips under the railroad was dug out in the 1970s so there was no more interruption, traffic back up.. Powell Blvd used to cross the tracks
Oh man, at 19:23 I'm thinking; don't turn down the old Hollywood liquor store alleyway! Then you got detoured and went right through it! In 1991 a former classmate murder his girlfriend in that alley. Cut her throat. The sight always triggers the horror of that.. good lord 🙏 Regardless this is such a good Then/Now video. Love your channel!
It was a fan that stayed on the billboard until the lockout ended not a broadcaster. I remember he got a vacation to Hawaii or something out of it haha. Z100 was all over that story is why I remember that so well
39:54 I remember the Mexican restaurant - and the Rose Manor Inn - The Rose Manor in turned into a real haven for criminal activity - and I'm not sorry it's gone.
Great Job on this.. Sandy Bld. is weird as the intersections are set up strange i did not know that it was a indian trail but makes sense as alot of roads are based off of trails..
I found this channel for your Kelly Butte video and I’m hooked, awesome content man! Keep it up, I love local history so much and you do an amazing job of keeping your videos entertaining, funny, and super educational. This is awesome!
You forgot the old Fred Meyer building across from Hollywood theater. What about old Franz bread on sandy next to Benson high school and the old Pepsi and 7up building on sandy. You could of stood on top of the old Fred Meyer building there a parking lot! you also miss the old Winchel's donuts in Hollywood corner of 39th sandy! The Hollywood theater had a fire a few back and burned down.
My Chinese tax ladies building next to the Hollywood Theater caused the fire she had kids upstairs running around with clothes everywhere and heaters on of course they're immigrants and foreigners so what do you expect but yeah they almost lost the Hollywood Theater and my dad rented the building right next to it in the 70s to sell pianos
This is interesting . I have wishful thinking about moving to somewhere in the Washington area or Oregon area . I miss going on vacations but my son has been posting some cool videos because he is a truck driver with his Go Pro mounted in the truck window so he told me to check out the video on you Tube . So glad I found this video too . Very good information . Before and after .
53:56 #PNWR These engines are historically correct for the 60s shots, when this was still southern pacific. A lot of SP engines got sold to smaller railroads and are still in use. I think this train continued past Holgate yard (you were near it at 15th & Holgate) and branches off the UP mainline in Milwaukie to go across the river at Lake Oswego. They have trackage rights on UP here and I bet this is a transfer from BNSF's Lake Yard north of Portland. Note that the Ford building is up against the railroad, and has now-sealed loading areas for a now-gone siding where parts (and maybe cars?) could be loaded and unload to rail. Buildings with loading docks near Holgate Yard and inner Water district (near OMSI, like city liquidators) are set up for boxcars, even though a lot of the street tracks have been removed.
I was hoping you had an image of the Aladdin Theater - I'd love to know more about it. I find it to be my favorite music venue in Portland. Thank you for this. I really enjoy your videos. Sorry for all the comments. 🙂
Yes, a fascinating history in Portland to walk around and compare old and new. The vintage picture you showed at 47:15 of the fruit and veggy stand on Powell blvd. is actually taken across the street looking westbound. You can make out Portland's west hills in the background of the historic photo. In the picture of the Kiser studios on Milwaukie avenue at 44:26, you can see the giant Kiser movie studio building in the back left. I think they produced some interesting silent movies in that era (early 1920's) where famous emerging actors like Clark Gable and Boris Karloff got a chance to perform. The connection of those two actors with the Kiser movie studio and Portland needs more research. For a time, could Portland have given Hollywood CA a run for it's money in the movie making business? Questions that need to be answered. Maybe a future video for you. :) Keep up the great historical sleuthing!
This is breaking news to me who moved out to Beaverton. They got rid of La Carreta??? Although extremely hot, their burritos were so good and I have so many memories there. Damn that sucks
@@panheadbob2926 You're right, it goes to the Sandy River, which makes me wonder if Sandy was named for the river, or vice versa? Thx for the correction.
@@raincadeify It does go to the Sandy River. So, you're right as well. I should have remembered that. I'm going to assume that the River was named first.
If you are ever actually concerned or care to know about whether or not a specific building is going to be taken down, you can use the Oregon Historic Sites Database. If the building is eligible/contributing then it is protected. You should probably include stuff like this in your video instead of just saying "yeah, these jerk offs just love taking a building down like this, its probably going to get taken down". Its kind of a shitty vibe, especially when the data is readily available for all. Otherwise great video with awesome comparisons to historic photos. The negative blanket you cast over every clip just sours the taste for me personally.
I actually use that resource regularly and several places on there that have been protected have all been torn down in recent years. Unfortunately there are ways around their protection, people find ways to get the designation changed, especially if a developer is eager to get their hands on the land.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorian that really sucks to hear. Do you have examples of those places? The historical buildings and architecture are easily some of my favorite parts of this city and are (IMO) a key part of what makes up the essence that we all fall in love with when we walk around the various neighborhoods
One of my first favorite buildings was the old Order of the Workmen Temple that pretty much right when I first discovered it there was always documentation on the wall about them changing its designation. Now there’s a hotel there at 2nd and Taylor. Diagonal from that they demoed the Lotus Cardroom and Cafe super quick cause they were going to build an office connected to the hotel but something must have gone awry cause that demo was 2018 and there’s still just a hole there where the Lotus used to be. That’s someone’s pretty rough when a place gets torn down before the replacement project is even a guarantee. I haven’t been on there in a while but I know they talk a lot about historical designations and things like that on the Stop Demolishing Portland FB page.
Some buildings got plowed down but some got the front remodel the whole building cuz they wanted to be up to date which is crap because they ruined Portland's history
It's funny you should mention Tom Black's garage my friend Mr Carlson that was his daughter daughter's husband I think cuz he used to take me over there 40 years ago and the Hollywood Theater my tax lady almost destroyed it in the fire next door she had an office upstairs she was Chinese she had a couple of girls there was clothes and heaters all over the place and I'm sorry that it all burned down because the restaurant below I loved going to so when you get foreigners to come to America that's what you get we almost lost the Hollywood Theater I could go on
How do you not walk by someone they got to talk to you guess I look like information booth do more natives in Portland and go SE there's guy got give his opinion walks his dog thinks he's big deal 😅
I LIVE NEAR PORTLAND AND GO TO THESE AREAS ALL THE TIME. I'VE LIVED NEAR PORTLAND 55 YEARS AND ITS INTERESTING HOW THINGS CHANGED PICTURES REALLY ARE TIME MACHINES!!!!
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Native Portlander here. Really good video. I really love the history and old photos. I miss old Portland immensely!!! 👋😎💚
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40 years ago, I used to walk that very route up Sandy Blvd to my job in the Hollywood District. This brings back a lot of memories.
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18:21 I remember the 7-UP sign.
I can't believe they tore it down. It was unique to Portland as the "Capital records" building is to L.A.
@@gregoryhagen8801 Agreed!!!
Same. I remember seeing it growing up from the freeway. Also when I went to high school near by at Benson
23:08 I'm so glad they preserved the old Hollywood theater. I've been one time - and I can't remember what I saw. It's just a really cool icon.
The "land was poking out like that" for skateboarding.
Nah BMX
Makes a lot of sense. Even with that blind corner just down the street I get the feeling not a lot of cars go through there.
@3:55 skateboarders likely poured that concrete so the wall could be turned into a skatespot. Anyone ever been down to Burnside skatepark under the bridge at SE 2nd?
My thought exactly. Thats exactly how Burnside was created. A few skaters and a few bags of concrete.
yeah its an industrial area now and the skatepark is just a dilapidated cleared out area. It used to be completely fenced around but it's been years since I've been on that side of town. I currently live in Portland, Oregon and these are great remembrances. Not being a Portland native, but having lived here the last 20 years I appreciate this video and all the great stuff it portrays. Portland has gone downhill since the turn of the millennium and it's no longer the weird fun city it used to be. Now it's just people struggling for something to do. Sad really.
used to skate there a lot. I believe a guy named Sage started it.
Yeah, I used to walk down there with my kids so they could skate. We were the first ones there once, and my youngest (5 or 6) went over to that one steep bowl, looked in and said calmly, "Hey, there's dead guy in the bowl." Turned out he was just passed out, but it I still marvel at how my first grader was so collected seeing his first "corpse", lol. We lived just off Hawthorne and went to the Bagdad and Cinemagic. Great place to raise kids imo.
@@rljpdx I mean, that's what they say, but it's not my experience.
I grew up on 32nd and Hawthorne. I went to sunnyside elementary in 84
Definitely appreciate these videos so I can find cool history when creating my recreations of Portland series. Keep them coming Steve, love the work you do to keep Portland history alive!
Man all that brings back so many memories of my time that I lived in Portland for 33 years
Great video Steve !!!
thanks for lining up the images i love looking at how areas developed
Ive been a delivery driver in Portland for 10 years and have lived here for 30 years. Its cool to learn about all the history around here. Keep it up.
Once again a great show. I get stressed when you say pictures from the 50's and 60's are old but you are right. I didn't think it was old when I was growing up.
In all fairness my dad was born in the 50s and my mom in the 60s so I think I just have a predisposition to thinking the 50s and 60s are “old”.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorianI always think of everything in black and white as old. Once they introduced color, it becomes "modern." But that's just me. 😏
The building at 24 and sandy was replaced in the 60 with timberline dodge and when the dodge dealership closed that building was converted to what you see now
I'm so glad they only altered the milk building instead of completely demolishing it. I bet people drive by there all the time and wonder why it's shaped the way it is. It's a shame modern architecture is so non-descript now. Great video Steve!
This area was my 90's stomping ground. Pounded many a beer at the Yukon and loved La Carretta. Great memories and fantastic video.
Back when people could afford to live here.
Then and Now segments are definitely my favorite. I'd love to see one on Northwest 23rd Avenue and the site of the 1905 Lewis & Clark exposition. 40 years ago, I lived on Northwest 22 and Wilson in a Victorian style house built around 1900. The house is still there, one of the few remaining, most of that neighborhood was demolished when US 30 was extended off the Fremont Bridge in the late 1980s. I'd love to find an old picture of the house.
Thanks for all your research and work!
Just wanted to say that I love your videos ! With me being a local now for the last 10 years , the videos really help to give me a glimpse into the past . I'm a big history guy so these videos really help to see what used to go where , I'm always curious about stuff
Hi Steve - I appreciate all your hardwork and research of Portland "Then and Now". I grew up here and I remember alot of the changes that took place. Keep up the good work. Thanks - CH
Great video. Grew up all over this part of town. Yukon shuffleboard in the 70’s. Outstanding
My tavorite part is when you got the wrong spot, but then went through the process of figuring out where it actually was and showed us. Just like I do when hunting on google earth for old photo modern locations. Really neat to see.
Steve I am so glad to see how much your channel has grown but I am not surprised. You sure have been consistent and I'm glad your hard work is paying off. Your content is really great.
8:46 I've always loved that building across the street. For as long as I can remember - that lower corner spot was a vintage/second hand furniture store. It's been years since it's been occupied. Not sure if the apartments above are still in use. I always was curious about them.
I think that's the place that had vintage lamps, right?
@@raincadeify ... I can't remember.
how awesome was that , i used to live off Knight st..thanks for opening my eyes to the local history in my neighborhood
I pray portland gets back to the way it was my family and I visited twice every summer and we miss it terribly. It just got to unsafe and trashed .praying it cleans up ❤🙏🏻absolutely love portland !
Love your video !❤
Steve, three years ago, I said you should be doing this for a living! I’m glad to see you’re still at it. Godspeed!
I just found a couple of your videos in the last few days. I was at Reed from 1979-1985 (I took a year or two off :) ), and I haven't been back to Portland since, even though I LOVED it and still miss it. One day I'll get back there. But anyway, so far I haven't recognized most of the places you've featured--it's been a LONG time (I've been trying to remember stuff like which bridge we used to take downtown, and the name of the big street that led to it--there was a great deli there) and I think you've been doing neighborhoods where I didn't spend time back then. Of course, I recognize the mountain in the background in many of your images!
But thanks for bringing back my memories of Portland, and I'm looking forward to seeing more.
I always get lost in that area around Reed. I used to feel like I'd never find my way out, lol. Like IKEA.
@@raincadeifyThat was probably the area where I was LEAST likely to get lost! I knew where the Safeway and the bar we all used to go to were, so I was good. 😎
@@n.ciebevilaqua3603 There's a bar over there, lol?
@@raincadeify Nah--college students don't go to bars. :) It was a great little place--Lutz Tavern. I'd love to think it's still there!
@@n.ciebevilaqua3603 the safeway is now a bi mart, and the IGA is a safeway. Woodstock is pretty hoppin' these days. (yes, the lutz is still there... I haven't been in a while but I bet they still have PBR.)
It's fascinating how in most before and after pictures, there seems to be more trees and plants. Seems to me Portland has become greener over the years.
3:33 Once Apon A Time - Portland had a casket culture back in the day. They ended around the 2000's, the Mom & Pop shops in Portland and local areas used to number 6 or 7 throughout the 20th century.
Really enjoy your before & after pictures. You clearly try hard to line up the views well. As born & raised in Portland 68 year old man, in my younger days my family spent a lot of time going to specialty stores located in the Hollywood district looking for shoes that would fit my extra wide but small feet. We went to the Alex Volchuck`s boot & shoe shop on Sandy located on the south side of the street. Also there used to be a 7- UP bottling plant on the north side of Sandy around the mid-30s streets. My elementary school had a field trip there where we saw the glass bottles washed & refilled after being checked for defects.
Awesome video of PDX, I use to live in Portland from ‘96-2007 and it was great looking at the SE area of the city. Along 58:28 with Powell, Sandy and you having the old photos to compare was great. You were close to an old friends home around 33 SE. Thanks so much! 💙👏🏾
The Eastside IS Portland as far as I'm concerned, lol.
Love this! I grew up near 18th and Fremont in the 70s-80s, but I spent most of my free time in Hollywood district.
My husband and I met at the YMCA on 39th.
Sandy Blvd was Oregon Hwy 30. Steigerwald is pronounced, st-eye-grr-waald. Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge, located just east of Washougal, WA on Hwy 14, is named after the dairy farm which was once located there.
Steve, as a new Oregonian and lover of history you are giving me great story’s! I’ve been visiting many towns new to me, plus Portland and thanks for showing me parts I probably would never see. From CG Oregon.
Thank you so much! I’m definitely planning on doing a lot more of these.
ive literally climbed onto a train in downtown on naito, to get to work. i was riding a biketown bike and was late and this train was so slow. i abandoned the bike, hopped on the train crossed to other side and hopped off within a 60ft distance as it was going.
24th and Sandy was leveled at least 20years ago.
24th and Sandy I used to go to Benson in 70 and I'd walk over to the Dodge dealer and look at all the brand new cooters Challengers dusters roadrunners all that stuff
Aquamarine. Great video, Youngblood.
thank you. I grew up in Portland in the 60's, this was fantastic!. Learned a lot and enjoyed going down memory lane.
Thank you, I'm from Portland and I always enjoy history from my hometown.💙
I can confirm that the first tree is a silver maple and I would definitely agree it is the same tree in the picture. The second one is a horse chestnut and it looks to be the same in both pictures. Excellent work!
Your work is always awesome!
Thanks Steve much appreciated.
Thank you. I really enjoyed this. Born and raised in this great city, and now thru you, i cam enjoy it even more.
Thanks Im a Oregonian born in mis 70s in Grants pass but some of my jobs had me in Portland driving around so and I always loved history and the different snap shots in time.
Foster Rd similar to Sandy tho much smaller scale. Runs diagonally. Is Foster an old trail as well?
I’m actually not sure. I want to say Foster Road was more deliberate but I actually should look into that some more. I’ve wanted to do a video about Sandy Blvd History and Foster Road could be a side project to that.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorian Foster heading East goes right into what used to be Lent's Junction- a little train stop and I think a post office. It was considered it's own little town at one time.
Steve very nice job! I was born and raised in Portland and I can relate so much to everything you are doing. Really awesome job thank you very much! I used to watch double features at the Hollywood theater for a buck fifty! We would also frequent the Hollywood bowl! I lived All over Portland but had a stint just off 42nd and Fremont.
Jump back to time…
Thank you so much for this video.
I love all the work that you put into it.
My old stomping grounds and can familiarize allot of it.
Thank you.
Hello been watching you for a long time now my wife Hillary and I have enjoyed many of your videos. Ahh Sellwood takes us back. You should do a video on my secret hood aka Montivilla 😮
This is an awesome post! Subscribed!
Ahh the brown building with graffiti, we’re off to an excellent start 🍿
There was a show I watched about 40 years ago about the theaters of Portnad, I wish I could find it again, because there were so many amazing places around this town. The first one was Tiny and I think showed silent movies. It was either on channel 10 or cable access. They had tons of old photos.
You're in my neighborhood! I'm at Dear Sandy all the time -its just to the right of the open building at 9:20. I think it just cleared out in the last 3-4 months, but I don't think it's in immediate danger of being torn down. Love Hollywood Theatre as well. Not sure if you mention it, but they just did a ton of restoration work on the front of the building
I jogged by dear sandy today, and it was open with people inside. the north part of the building is still looking for a leasee though.
Steve, a legend in his own mind. Video would be better with no selfies and a better, professional narrative.
This is great ! Alot of time ,effort, smarts...you've put in ! Great job ..keep it up 😊 thks again
Wonderful video, Steve! Thank you for caring about history. You made me laugh several times too! Thank you for the humor; especially when you were walking around the corner and didn’t know what you would find. I think the blue on that building is called Williamsburg blue.
I was wondering when you were going to mention that Mexican restaurant. I LOVE LOVE LOVE when they keep the old signage! Just leave it…
55:35 I'm honestly surprised that there aren't a lot of mishaps with the train and people or folks on bikes at that intersection.
You missed the old trolly depo that was right there on powel and 13th I believe across the street from am pm gas station
The area of Powell Blvd that dips under the railroad was dug out in the 1970s so there was no more interruption, traffic back up..
Powell Blvd used to cross the tracks
Oh man, at 19:23 I'm thinking; don't turn down the old Hollywood liquor store alleyway! Then you got detoured and went right through it! In 1991 a former classmate murder his girlfriend in that alley. Cut her throat. The sight always triggers the horror of that.. good lord 🙏 Regardless this is such a good Then/Now video. Love your channel!
Wonderful ! ... thankyou ...nice you did the walking 😂
It was a fan that stayed on the billboard until the lockout ended not a broadcaster. I remember he got a vacation to Hawaii or something out of it haha. Z100 was all over that story is why I remember that so well
39:54 I remember the Mexican restaurant - and the Rose Manor Inn - The Rose Manor in turned into a real haven for criminal activity - and I'm not sorry it's gone.
Great video !
I miss Portland of the 90s.
Great Job on this.. Sandy Bld. is weird as the intersections are set up strange i did not know that it was a indian trail but makes sense as alot of roads are based off of trails..
The big pink tower of power... Lol
That building was the Pepsi Bottling plant delivery because I went to Benson in 70 and we used to go walk by there and and want to get a case of pop
Memories from 1950s! Grew up in the hood.
I found this channel for your Kelly Butte video and I’m hooked, awesome content man! Keep it up, I love local history so much and you do an amazing job of keeping your videos entertaining, funny, and super educational. This is awesome!
Thank you so much! I love doing it so there should be a lot more videos to come.
You forgot the old Fred Meyer building across from Hollywood theater. What about old Franz bread on sandy next to Benson high school and the old Pepsi and 7up building on sandy. You could of stood on top of the old Fred Meyer building there a parking lot! you also miss the old Winchel's donuts in Hollywood corner of 39th sandy! The Hollywood theater had a fire a few back and burned down.
My Chinese tax ladies building next to the Hollywood Theater caused the fire she had kids upstairs running around with clothes everywhere and heaters on of course they're immigrants and foreigners so what do you expect but yeah they almost lost the Hollywood Theater and my dad rented the building right next to it in the 70s to sell pianos
Have you done a video about the area around SE Foster road and SE 67th? It looks like it was a town of it's own many years ago.
putting up new signs is difficult permit-wise, but existing ones can be re-used. demolitions will raze buildings but the signs stay.
This is interesting . I have wishful thinking about moving to somewhere in the Washington area or Oregon area . I miss going on vacations but my son has been posting some cool videos because he is a truck driver with his Go Pro mounted in the truck window so he told me to check out the video on you Tube . So glad I found this video too . Very good information . Before and after .
Also have you ever thought of doing some history in Eugene most people don't no there was a trolly here also
53:56 #PNWR These engines are historically correct for the 60s shots, when this was still southern pacific. A lot of SP engines got sold to smaller railroads and are still in use.
I think this train continued past Holgate yard (you were near it at 15th & Holgate) and branches off the UP mainline in Milwaukie to go across the river at Lake Oswego. They have trackage rights on UP here and I bet this is a transfer from BNSF's Lake Yard north of Portland.
Note that the Ford building is up against the railroad, and has now-sealed loading areas for a now-gone siding where parts (and maybe cars?) could be loaded and unload to rail. Buildings with loading docks near Holgate Yard and inner Water district (near OMSI, like city liquidators) are set up for boxcars, even though a lot of the street tracks have been removed.
I was hoping you had an image of the Aladdin Theater - I'd love to know more about it. I find it to be my favorite music venue in Portland. Thank you for this. I really enjoy your videos. Sorry for all the comments. 🙂
Yes, a fascinating history in Portland to walk around and compare old and new. The vintage picture you showed at 47:15 of the fruit and veggy stand on Powell blvd. is actually taken across the street looking westbound. You can make out Portland's west hills in the background of the historic photo.
In the picture of the Kiser studios on Milwaukie avenue at 44:26, you can see the giant Kiser movie studio building in the back left. I think they produced some interesting silent movies in that era (early 1920's) where famous emerging actors like Clark Gable and Boris Karloff got a chance to perform. The connection of those two actors with the Kiser movie studio and Portland needs more research. For a time, could Portland have given Hollywood CA a run for it's money in the movie making business? Questions that need to be answered. Maybe a future video for you. :) Keep up the great historical sleuthing!
This is breaking news to me who moved out to Beaverton. They got rid of La Carreta??? Although extremely hot, their burritos were so good and I have so many memories there. Damn that sucks
I think the building at 15th & holgate might have been a local telephone exchange at one point? I know there was was near that area in the past.
Yeah you got it. I looked it up and an inventory document shows it was originally run by the Pacific States Telephone Co.
I would like to see a dive into the owner of American Properties. The owner has been in the Portland area for almost a hundred years.
What happened in the yr 1111
You mean, before the genocide??
“wooded off”? boarded up is the usual term
Bliss a new video
I would like to see a video of Beaverton: then and now 🙂 (it’ll probably never happen, of course, but a person can wish)
It was that long ago Beaverton was pretty much a cow pasture, lol.
i was told sandy was a cow trail
Sandy was how you got to Sandy.
@@raincadeify Sandy Blvd goes out to the Gorge. Powell Blvd is the old Road used to get to Sandy.
@@panheadbob2926 You're right, it goes to the Sandy River, which makes me wonder if Sandy was named for the river, or vice versa? Thx for the correction.
@@raincadeify It does go to the Sandy River. So, you're right as well. I should have remembered that. I'm going to assume that the River was named first.
3:50. Skaters put those in to skate on
“There’s always tomorrow”?
Don’t talk like that - you have a lot of life left to live 🙂
If you are ever actually concerned or care to know about whether or not a specific building is going to be taken down, you can use the Oregon Historic Sites Database. If the building is eligible/contributing then it is protected. You should probably include stuff like this in your video instead of just saying "yeah, these jerk offs just love taking a building down like this, its probably going to get taken down".
Its kind of a shitty vibe, especially when the data is readily available for all. Otherwise great video with awesome comparisons to historic photos. The negative blanket you cast over every clip just sours the taste for me personally.
I actually use that resource regularly and several places on there that have been protected have all been torn down in recent years. Unfortunately there are ways around their protection, people find ways to get the designation changed, especially if a developer is eager to get their hands on the land.
@@StevetheAmateurHistorian that really sucks to hear. Do you have examples of those places? The historical buildings and architecture are easily some of my favorite parts of this city and are (IMO) a key part of what makes up the essence that we all fall in love with when we walk around the various neighborhoods
One of my first favorite buildings was the old Order of the Workmen Temple that pretty much right when I first discovered it there was always documentation on the wall about them changing its designation. Now there’s a hotel there at 2nd and Taylor. Diagonal from that they demoed the Lotus Cardroom and Cafe super quick cause they were going to build an office connected to the hotel but something must have gone awry cause that demo was 2018 and there’s still just a hole there where the Lotus used to be. That’s someone’s pretty rough when a place gets torn down before the replacement project is even a guarantee. I haven’t been on there in a while but I know they talk a lot about historical designations and things like that on the Stop Demolishing Portland FB page.
Some buildings got plowed down but some got the front remodel the whole building cuz they wanted to be up to date which is crap because they ruined Portland's history
It's funny you should mention Tom Black's garage my friend Mr Carlson that was his daughter daughter's husband I think cuz he used to take me over there 40 years ago and the Hollywood Theater my tax lady almost destroyed it in the fire next door she had an office upstairs she was Chinese she had a couple of girls there was clothes and heaters all over the place and I'm sorry that it all burned down because the restaurant below I loved going to so when you get foreigners to come to America that's what you get we almost lost the Hollywood Theater I could go on
you need to film a monkey tail tree?
Those kind of tree's date back to the Jurassic period.
How do you not walk by someone they got to talk to you guess I look like information booth do more natives in Portland and go SE there's guy got give his opinion walks his dog thinks he's big deal 😅
It's pronounced Kie-zer.
I LIVE NEAR PORTLAND AND GO TO THESE AREAS ALL THE TIME. I'VE LIVED NEAR PORTLAND 55 YEARS AND ITS INTERESTING HOW THINGS CHANGED PICTURES REALLY ARE TIME MACHINES!!!!
doin the lords work!