Portland, Oregon Circa 1939 (In Colour)

[THe Conductor]

Dan Haneckow, author of cafeunknown.com has a variety of films created in an engineering study of portland circa 1939. Most are in colour and show a variety of downtown locations. Quite the mess:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PO6UasmKwk&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/danhaneckow

 

[reetpleat]

Gee. You think drivers are crazy now. Check out the one of sandy. It looks like a street scene from India I saw.

 

[Garrett]

Thanks for posting this

 

[Gutshot]

Wow... those were great!

 

[Brooksie]

Thanks for posting that conductor - those are wonderful! I also proceeded to go and check out the guys blog who posted those on Youtube and he has a very nice blog too.

 

[Brooksie]

Gee. You think drivers are crazy now. Check out the one of sandy. It looks like a street scene from India I saw.

Than intersection on 12th where Sandy and Burnside meet is still CRAZY - the first I ever drove through there was when I was a teenager and it gave me nightmares and I avoided it like the plague for many years there after.