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Portland, OR. September 22, 2018. Shot on a Canon AE-1 and Kodak Portra 160. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
in 1983 I flew from SF through Portland to Tri-Cities Washington on an engineering assignment, I was a brand new engineer :) The plane stopped in Portland Airport on the tarmac and let off some passengers and took on a few others. Waiting in the plane, I watched out the window, a dark gray cloud cover hung low over the whole area, I had never seen anything like that. It was the middle of summer. I thought I can never live in a place like this... fast forward 1987, we flew up for a weekend and loved Portland and the environment... fast forward to 1990, an opportunity came up and we moved to Portland, and now for 30 years, I have been in Portland... have I gotten used to her ways, I am still not sure :)
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Huber's Cafe
411 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204
Huber's Cafe, founded in 1879 and doing business in this space since 1910, may be the last remnant from the days when downtown Portland was the largest and most important commercial, business, shopping, cultural and entertainment hub on the U.S. Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Seattle.
There were downtown department stores, movie palaces, hotels, pharmacies, and bustling streets. There were office buildings filled with lawyers, accountants, travel agents, executives, and clerical staff. Portland, with its waterfront and nearby industrial district supported factories, warehouses, port activity, union jobs, and blue-collar livelihoods.
In short, in mid-century Portland, the downtown core was not just a hub of commercial bustle and professional business activity, but also tethered to an industrial economy rooted in timber, shipping, and rail — a layered economic base whose gradual unraveling left different kinds of voids across the urban landscape.
Huber’s Café, Portland’s oldest restaurant, is more than just a beloved institution — it’s a living remnant of downtown’s 20th-century heyday. Tucked inside the ornate Railway Exchange Building, Huber’s once thrived at the heart of a bustling city center, serving up turkey dinners and cocktails beneath its high ceilings and polished mahogany bar.
For generations, it was a dependable refuge for the city’s professional class — lawyers, bankers, and business travelers — who moved daily through a downtown alive with commerce, industry, and civic energy.
This was a time when the rhythms of office life, retail bustle, and industrial labor still overlapped in the same few square blocks. Secretaries typed up contracts a few floors above, while freight trains rumbled through nearby Union Station and shoppers filled the sidewalks below. In that world, Huber’s was both a meeting place and a kind of social commons — a place where business was discussed over highballs and deals closed with a handshake.
The vibrancy of that era didn’t happen by accident. Portland was once known nationally for its visionary approach to urban planning — particularly under Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, whose 1979 Downtown Plan actively resisted the hollowing out of the city center by suburban shopping malls and sprawl. Goldschmidt’s administration, backed by a civic-minded business community, fought to keep retailing, restaurants, and cultural life downtown, insisting that a healthy city needed a strong urban core. For decades, Portland was held up as a model of how public-private cooperation could shape livable cities.
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A Portland Terminal Company yard job with a UP GP38-2 catches some rays of sun as the mornings clouds over the Willamette and Columbia Rivers start to burn off.
The Portland Terminal Company is jointly owned by BNSF and UP, with both railroads supplying the PTRC's motive power needs. The PTRC operates Lake Yard west of downtown Portland along with an ever decreasing amount of industrial trackage in the area.
Portland Bill Lighthouse has been standing majestically for the past one hundred and eleven years at a height of 41 metres (135 ft). The distinctive red and white tower first shone its famous four flashes of light every twenty seconds on 11 January 1906 and has a range of 25 nautical miles which has guided passing vessels through the hazardous waters around Portland Bill as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel.
Taken with DJI Mavic Pro.
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