Portland West Side Auto Camp
Written by Tim Lyman – December 3, 2012 The first facilities specifically for automobile tourists were auto camps – campgrounds where the motor tourist could pitch a tent and have access to shared kitchen...
Category: 2012 Archives
Multnomah Volunteer Fire Department
By Tim Lyman – Published November 27, 2012 In January 1926 the Multnomah Booster Club discussed what would happen if a fire started in the main business district. Just a few feet of fire...
City and West Portland Park Railway
By Tim Lyman – Published November 16, 2012 About 1890 hopeful speculators started to carve up southwest Portland into lots. The first serious development was West Portland Park in 1889. Thomas Alexander Wood formed...
Lovejoy and Jackson Store
By Tim Lyman – Published November 12, 2012 The first store by the Multnomah Station on the Oregon Electric Railroad was a small general store started by Nelson Thomas and aptly called the Bungalow...
Fulton Park
By Tim Lyman – October 29, 2012 *most of this article is inaccessible from the previous site. We have included what we could salvage. The property was originally owned by Oregon pioneer, Thomas F....
Ross Motor Company
By Tim Lyman – October 22, 2012 *most of this article is inaccessible from the previous site. We have included what we could salvage. Artist’s conception of the Ross Motor Company building at 7634...
Shattuck Road
By Tim Lyman – Published October 15, 2012 The road in the right foreground is approximately where Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is today. At the time of this photo the highway did not exist, the...
Maplewood Station
By Tim Lyman – October 8, 2012 On May 14, 1906 the Oregon Electric Railway was organized “to construct and operate a system of railroads, either single track or double track, with power to...