July 2010
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Alberta Streetscape Plan-Transportation Growth...
February 2010
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Burt Turner's WPA band, 1936-1941
Burt Turner and his wife taught music at the YMCA located at Tillamook and Williams. In 1936, Turner was hired under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as the community bandmaster. Former students of his described the band practices as follows: “Even small children who were not even in the band came to rehearsal to watch and imitate. Burt would march up and down the street and it was...
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Josiah Hill III, 1939-2000
Community Activist. Physician Assistant. Leader. Advocate. Mentor. Husband and Father. Josiah Hill, III was all of these and so much more. He envisioned a Portland community where there would be no need for blood-lead level testing for its children. As a board member of the Oregon chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Josiah Hill met Dr. Richard Bayer in 1997. They joined forces on...
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Irvington Racetrack, 1898
Irvington Racetrack, now Irving Park, where guard troops prepare for combat in the Spanish-American War.
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Albina Neighborhood Association, 1964
Albina Neighborhood tree planting.
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Vanport City, 1943-1948
Vanport City was a hastily constructed city of public housing located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. It is currently the site of Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway. It was constructed in 1943 to house the workers at the wartime Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. Vanport was home...
Vanport Flood, 1948
Vanport was dramatically destroyed at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when a 200 ft section of the dike holding back the Columbia River collapsed during a flood, killing 15. The city was underwater by nightfall leaving its inhabitants homeless. The Vanport Extension Center refused to close after this disaster and quickly reopened in downtown Portland. Dubbed by a national magazine “The College...
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Streetcar, circa 1904
Union Ave (today MLK Blvd) - Vernon line, connecting north Albina with Portland
Alberta View 1930
Looking east from the intersection with Martin Luther King Blvd (then Union Ave).
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Martina Gangle
Artist Martina Gangle, 1906-1994, led an extraordinary life as an artist, political activist and community organizer. Gangle grew up in a family of migrant agricultural labor. During the 1930s, she worked as a WPA artist, during which she created two murals in tempera for Portland’s Rose City Park Elementary School, “The Columbia River Pioneer Migration” (1940). Gangle later worked as a welder...
Alberta Street Stories
Share your story about the Alberta Street community. Post your thoughts, memories and images of people and events you feel have been significant at any time in the history of the Alberta Street community.
Use the “submit a post” link in the left-hand column to add your words, pictures and video. Your story will help shape the themes for the five new community murals, which Art on...