Most of the ornate light fixtures that lined the bridge and gardens were scrapped. The city did save one and it is on display at Oaks Park. Great vid, pics and story-congrats on 900!
I had always heard there was a building left from that time. I worked on 24th and Nicolai for ten yrs! AND both of my grandfathers worked in this area in the 40s. Thank You for this amazing video!
You're hysterical! This is awesome. I did my senior thesis about the fair back in 1991. I had access to the actual documents, correspondence, letters, budgets, etc.from OHS that they pulled for me from their archive. Was so fun to research.
That building that “looks vacant” (across from Powells’s industrial) is the old GE building. It’s been abandoned due to high levels of toxins back in the 90’s. GE can’t sell it until the toxins are removed, so they’re just sitting on it.
My most thrilling _and_ heartbreaking memories as a child in the late 50's~mid 60's were spending many entire afternoons enjoying the giant log cabin and sadly before my ninth birthday watching the massive smoke column on the not so distant horizon rising from where a fire was consuming the enormous log cabin that was built for the 1905 Exposition
I lived in the Fairmont Apartments before they got renovated and they had old pharmacy windows and a grand layout. Super beautiful back in the day. It also had a 3rd story added in the 20s that burned down in the late 1930s. There are still staircases that lead to nowhere in the upstairs of the Fairmont.
I've always been so disgusted about how one greedy opportunist got away with cutting down trees in Forest Park and letting all that land fall into the lake, claiming he was given permission when he wasn't. And then he got away with it. Jesus...not much different than the way developers get away today with demolishing historic homes and cutting down beautiful old trees. Not enough people bother to fight them.
As i recall when visiting the Forestry Building it was on sort of a knob of land near the Montgomery Ward building and my guess is at 25:49 it would have been generally behind you
Are you aware that way up on the ridge there was a massive Theme amusement park that people took trains from the Willamette river to top of the mountain to the Amusement park. They had ferries and boats bringing people to the trains and they played and had fun all night on top of the ridge in that amusement park. then War broke out and the men got sent to war and the park had to close down for lack of money funds - amusement park was dismantled. Do a full history of that park please - I found the site once on youtube but can't find it again. totally forgotten part of our Portland Oregon History.
I appreciate you doin this video. I've been lookin into this for a few days now. ...being a 503 native and local, it legit makes me sad to see how much beauty and grandure was once in my city...especially compared to the overstuffed craphole its becoming. Perfect way to try hiding history...the facts are even shaky after doin your homework... which seems to be the case with EVERY early 1900s expo, or world fair. ...is it weird that they all had human incubator exhibits,, showcasing the 60,000 premature babies born in the US that year?? 🤔🤐Absolutely amazing history! Thanks again man! Sik
Aw, Man. I worked at Meriwether's (Building at the 11:53 mark), for two years. I miss my co-workers but that place sucked... FINE DINING? MY Ass is Fine Dining. And you can eat it for Free
Sorry to corect you but 27:00 although the claim was made at the time of completion, it was also known at that time the Old Faithful Inn held the title of ''largest''. However the Forestry Building had the right to claim the largest _indiviual_ logs in a structure. Believe me, those logs were colossal !!
Ages ago I lived right by Montgomery Park and apart from that plaque for the World Forestry Center I had no concept of the Expo or all that was there. It was only after I moved across the river that I learned. I've also tried to figure out the street grid of now compared with the Expo maps I've seen and it is headache-inducing to say the least. This video prompted me to locate my copy of the book The Great Extravaganza by Carl Abbott (used, thanks to Powell's) and before the table of contents there's a nice big picture taken from just inside that entrance, looking out into the neighborhood and the Hotel Fairmount. I love that Hotel Fairmount building; I saw that they spruced it up and I worry that if there was any original stuff left before then that it's gone. I thoroughly enjoyed the embedded murder story, because I stumble upon similar stories in my historical trawls, but certainly never anything about a child perpetrator. I also had no idea there used to be a sanitorium where Mall 205 is now! I'm off to find that video! I have subscribed!
@kendalchen I lived there before they evicted us to renovate it, nothing but the shell and skylights are left original. It's beautiful, but not like it once was. When I lived there, my ceiling was literally caving in so I am glad someone saved ot from the state that it was in. It caught fire twice when I lived there due to poor maintenance.
I wish I could have seen the world's biggest Log Cabin get burnt down the year I was born my uncle who had a building lot in East County actually probably outside of the city 36 was closer and not really East County 72nd and Crystal Springs anyway he bought 2 World War II housing units duplexes those walls were only 1 and 3/4 inches thick 3/4 inch tongue and groove outside wall the inner a layer of Kraft paper the inside studs which were just 1 x 4 is again and then the inside 1/4 inch plywood anyway when he had them towed to his property he had to go over the St Johns Bridge down Columbia or all the way to 82nd Avenue head South turn on Crystal Springs stop short of 72nd within blocks of the County Line not sure what the county line is railroad tracks or Johnson Creek or is it Sunnyside Road I know that in Sellwood it's the train tracks if the Markham Bridge was available he probably could have drove it over the Markham Bridge so in play 40s early fifties so actually not sure when he bought the property but it was amazing that those buildings lasted as long as they did considering how terrible they were built they were Innovative built pre-made Roofing trusses when I was helping my uncle work on it in the 80s late 80s they were only like 45 year old year old now they're like 80 drove by there they're still there oh if you're curious about that I remember thinking this is half the size of a 2 x 4 because they're 3 1/2 in and this is one and 3/4 inches
haha - I'm reading a book about Chicago around 1890 and the World Fair. I wonder if Olmsted had something to do with that design? Burnham maybe? Were the buildings created using staph(?). Concrete over wood. Those early expositions seem to have been a siren call to bring people West! White people colonializing lol. Essentially. This belonged to the Natives.
The buildings were largely constructed of plaster over wooden frames and not meant to be permanent. With the exception of the forestry building of course.
Most of the ornate light fixtures that lined the bridge and gardens were scrapped. The city did save one and it is on display at Oaks Park. Great vid, pics and story-congrats on 900!
Where at Oaks Park?
I had always heard there was a building left from that time. I worked on 24th and Nicolai for ten yrs! AND both of my grandfathers worked in this area in the 40s. Thank You for this amazing video!
You're hysterical! This is awesome. I did my senior thesis about the fair back in 1991. I had access to the actual documents, correspondence, letters, budgets, etc.from OHS that they pulled for me from their archive. Was so fun to research.
That building that “looks vacant” (across from Powells’s industrial) is the old GE building. It’s been abandoned due to high levels of toxins back in the 90’s. GE can’t sell it until the toxins are removed, so they’re just sitting on it.
Love your passion for Portland history--subbed. I watched the whole thing. It's wild how much this city has changed.
My most thrilling _and_ heartbreaking memories as a child in the late 50's~mid 60's were spending many entire afternoons enjoying the giant log cabin and sadly before my ninth birthday watching the massive smoke column on the not so distant horizon rising from where a fire was consuming the enormous log cabin that was built for the 1905 Exposition
Thankyou for doing this! I have always wondered where it was. Btw awesome beginning 👍
I lived in the Fairmont Apartments before they got renovated and they had old pharmacy windows and a grand layout. Super beautiful back in the day. It also had a 3rd story added in the 20s that burned down in the late 1930s. There are still staircases that lead to nowhere in the upstairs of the Fairmont.
Awesome page! Most amateur history of PDX on TH-cam is cool for the production value, but I appreciate your attention to detail!
I've always been so disgusted about how one greedy opportunist got away with cutting down trees in Forest Park and letting all that land fall into the lake, claiming he was given permission when he wasn't. And then he got away with it. Jesus...not much different than the way developers get away today with demolishing historic homes and cutting down beautiful old trees. Not enough people bother to fight them.
As i recall when visiting the Forestry Building it was on sort of a knob of land near the Montgomery Ward building and my guess is at 25:49 it would have been generally behind you
Thanks for capturing and sharing app this portland history. Truly interesting stuff
I really enjoy your channel. I appreciate that you do this. Thank you
Are you aware that way up on the ridge there was a massive Theme amusement park that people took trains from the Willamette river to top of the mountain to the Amusement park. They had ferries and boats bringing people to the trains and they played and had fun all night on top of the ridge in that amusement park. then War broke out and the men got sent to war and the park had to close down for lack of money funds - amusement park was dismantled. Do a full history of that park please - I found the site once on youtube but can't find it again. totally forgotten part of our Portland Oregon History.
Kind of like what they're about to do again?
Empty the cities, start a war, dismantle civilization, Build Back Better?
Leave it up to oregon to fill IN a lake to make more land instead of just using the land around said lake 🤦♂️
How did they do it without heavy machinery ?
All our history is a lie
I appreciate you doin this video. I've been lookin into this for a few days now. ...being a 503 native and local, it legit makes me sad to see how much beauty and grandure was once in my city...especially compared to the overstuffed craphole its becoming. Perfect way to try hiding history...the facts are even shaky after doin your homework... which seems to be the case with EVERY early 1900s expo, or world fair. ...is it weird that they all had human incubator exhibits,, showcasing the 60,000 premature babies born in the US that year?? 🤔🤐Absolutely amazing history! Thanks again man! Sik
Yeah a lot changes but it changes on the wishes of the global controllers, elevating ugliness over beauty and cowardice over valour.
The McMenamins St. Johns Theater & Pub was a building in the Seattle word's fair and the brought it down the cost to Portland
Aw, Man. I worked at Meriwether's (Building at the 11:53 mark), for two years.
I miss my co-workers
but that place sucked... FINE DINING? MY Ass is Fine Dining. And you can eat it for Free
You wouldn't get away with filling in a lake any more
Sorry to corect you but 27:00 although the claim was made at the time of completion, it was also known at that time the Old Faithful Inn held the title of ''largest''. However the Forestry Building had the right to claim the largest _indiviual_ logs in a structure.
Believe me, those logs were colossal !!
Ages ago I lived right by Montgomery Park and apart from that plaque for the World Forestry Center I had no concept of the Expo or all that was there. It was only after I moved across the river that I learned. I've also tried to figure out the street grid of now compared with the Expo maps I've seen and it is headache-inducing to say the least. This video prompted me to locate my copy of the book The Great Extravaganza by Carl Abbott (used, thanks to Powell's) and before the table of contents there's a nice big picture taken from just inside that entrance, looking out into the neighborhood and the Hotel Fairmount. I love that Hotel Fairmount building; I saw that they spruced it up and I worry that if there was any original stuff left before then that it's gone.
I thoroughly enjoyed the embedded murder story, because I stumble upon similar stories in my historical trawls, but certainly never anything about a child perpetrator. I also had no idea there used to be a sanitorium where Mall 205 is now! I'm off to find that video! I have subscribed!
Did you live in a box I knew about this since I was a little kid
@@MrJeep75 I uh...did not grow up here. ;b
@kendalchen I lived there before they evicted us to renovate it, nothing but the shell and skylights are left original. It's beautiful, but not like it once was. When I lived there, my ceiling was literally caving in so I am glad someone saved ot from the state that it was in. It caught fire twice when I lived there due to poor maintenance.
Surprised the didn't reuse any of the building
Vaughn street stadium was between 24th and 25th you should do a video on it
I heard it has DiMaggio history
Why do.people feel the need to demolish history.
Bridge a guest was 2000ft long
It sucks they filled the lake
I wish I could have seen the world's biggest Log Cabin get burnt down the year I was born my uncle who had a building lot in East County actually probably outside of the city 36 was closer and not really East County 72nd and Crystal Springs anyway he bought 2 World War II housing units duplexes those walls were only 1 and 3/4 inches thick 3/4 inch tongue and groove outside wall the inner a layer of Kraft paper the inside studs which were just 1 x 4 is again and then the inside 1/4 inch plywood anyway when he had them towed to his property he had to go over the St Johns Bridge down Columbia or all the way to 82nd Avenue head South turn on Crystal Springs stop short of 72nd within blocks of the County Line not sure what the county line is railroad tracks or Johnson Creek or is it Sunnyside Road I know that in Sellwood it's the train tracks if the Markham Bridge was available he probably could have drove it over the Markham Bridge so in play 40s early fifties so actually not sure when he bought the property but it was amazing that those buildings lasted as long as they did considering how terrible they were built they were Innovative built pre-made Roofing trusses when I was helping my uncle work on it in the 80s late 80s they were only like 45 year old year old now they're like 80 drove by there they're still there oh if you're curious about that I remember thinking this is half the size of a 2 x 4 because they're 3 1/2 in and this is one and 3/4 inches
haha - I'm reading a book about Chicago around 1890 and the World Fair. I wonder if Olmsted had something to do with that design? Burnham maybe? Were the buildings created using staph(?). Concrete over wood.
Those early expositions seem to have been a siren call to bring people West! White people colonializing lol. Essentially. This belonged to the Natives.
Gorgeous building too bad none of them are left
The buildings were largely constructed of plaster over wooden frames and not meant to be permanent. With the exception of the forestry building of course.
🤍 liars