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Documenting past + present + future Oregon architecture + its built environment.

Month: August 2012

Pacifico Preservation Adventure: Portland, OR

I wrote this for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a promotion they are doing to compete for a portion of $100,000 based on the number of votes they receive. … Read More Pacifico Preservation Adventure: Portland, OR

08/23/201209/11/2019 John Chilson5 Comments

Photo(s) of the week: Oregon City hospital

According to the Clackamas County Historical Society’s excellent Flickr page, the hospital Opened in April 1911 in an unfinished building on the hill, the original hospital used tents in the yard to shelter patients. The building was replaced with a “modern” structure in 1918.

08/21/201208/21/2012 John Chilson3 Comments

Photo(s) of the Week: Downtown Silverton, Ore.

Current obsession? Oregon town’s and their Main streets – specifically towns along the I-5 corridor between Portland and Eugene. Making time this summer to pull off I-5 and do some exploring. Here are a couple of shots from Silverton:

08/04/201208/04/2012 John Chilson2 Comments

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The light hit just right last night at the Willamette Falls. I found a clipping (swipe) about the Beachcombers Club in Lake Oswego mentioning the Jim Benton Trio from the Oregon Mirror, June 1962. (Says Wiki: The Oregon Mirror was an African-American newspaper founded by Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker and Don Alford in 1961.) Golden hour at Gino’s. Found a seat at the bar. It will always be my favorite spot in Portland to sip on an Old Fashioned. From the back of the postcard: Love to see older buildings (this one was built in 1926) being reused. And speaking of reuse (how’s THAT for a segue?), the business in there now sells gently used nice kitchen equipment at super reasonable prices. Ad for the Ports o’ Call on Swan Island, 1974. The fantastic KGW Broadcast Center on SW Jefferson. The Edris Morrison Studios (1222-1224 SW Broadway) was a portrait photography studio run by photographer and theater actor Edris Morrison Cox (1903-1997). Mummy’s in downtown Portland closed in 2022. There are some great articles about it floating on the web (check out Thebeerchaser’s review).

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