Oregon

[gary2881]

McDowell-Cr.6 by gary2881, on Flickr

Efke PL 100, WD2D+

 

[hendriphile]

A particularly striking image of an oft-photographed landmark.
May I ask what format/lens/film (or sensor)?

 

[tomtofa]

A particularly striking image of an oft-photographed landmark.
May I ask what format/lens/film (or sensor)?

Thanks - I used an X-Pro1 for that, with the 18-55 lens, f4, 125, 200 ISO, somewhere around 40mm. Cropped it. If I'd been thinking I would have done a panorama to get more resolution, but I never seem to remember camera gimmicks until afterwards...

 

[filmtwit]

Quintessential Portland (Oregon)

Oregon backyard fun

St John's Oregon

 

[rhl-oregon]

The last frame offers a whimsical Oregon commentary on the currently controversial Bandidos thread. Watch out! The Vesparadoes are coming to town! At 45 miles an hour! They're going to drink up all the Frappucinos and talk film noir with the baristas!

 

[charjohncarter]

1965-66 Kodachrome, Oswego:

And rhl here is one from your Eugene 1963:

 

[rhl-oregon]

Oh, those cars look so cool now--and would be, if that many of those vintages were gathered in one or two UOregon neighborhood lots. That's clearly near UO, but where? I don't recognize that church bell tower in the background. But you might not recognize that neighborhood today with all the high density apartments going up on sites that looked like this even a year ago...

 

[rhl-oregon]

Dp2 Merrill / Heceta Head from the north

 

[charjohncarter]

I think, I maybe wrong, but that may be St Mary's hospital in the distance. That apartment building was next door to a sorority house. Which was on the same intersection that the KKG sorority house was/is on.

Very close to this location:

And down the street from KKG:

 

[rhl-oregon]

I recognize the KKG on 15th--still the same. So that must be Sacred Heart Hospital before one of its many renovations. The other bell tower-like structure is still there--an ex-funeral home now home to Bijou Art Cinema.

I wonder if you recall the photography business in this Kennell-Ellis Building at 13th/Willamette:

The "artist photographers" are long gone, but their neon logo still graces the building.

Rear view, Minolta Autocord

 

[charjohncarter]

Right, Sacred Heart, my mistake. Yes I was in Kennel-Ellis many times. I remember once taking someone there for a portrait. I went in with her and ripped my Pendleton shirt on my MG's tonneau cover latch. You can see a little bit of the car in the Sacred Heart picture.

 

[filmtwit]

The old grain elivator between Steel and Broadway Bridge in Portland.

 

[Sustich]

1956:

1965:

1966:

2010:

That can't be the same car in the 1956 and 1965 photos, can it? Very similar to say the least.

 

[kuzano]

Nope...

Nope...

That can't be the same car in the 1956 and 1965 photos, can it? Very similar to say the least.

Don't think so. The car in 56 photo is mid to late 40's I suspect. The car in the later photo is a 1949-51 chevrolet. My first car was a 1949 Chevrolet. My dad purchased a 9 year old 1949 chevrolet for me and paid $75. Everything worked and I drove it for two years.

Try to buy a 9 year old car now for $75. Yeah... sure!!! I just paid $1500 for a 20 year old SAAB convertible with a $1000 dent in the rear quarter panel.

 

[kuzano]

Spent 23 years in Eugene.... 14 near UofO campus

Spent 23 years in Eugene.... 14 near UofO campus

I recognize the KKG on 15th--still the same. So that must be Sacred Heart Hospital before one of its many renovations. The other bell tower-like structure is still there--an ex-funeral home now home to Bijou Art Cinema.

I wonder if you recall the photography business in this Kennell-Ellis Building at 13th/Willamette

I do remember Kennell Ellis, also did a lot of business with Dotson Photo.

Spent from 65 to 87 in Eugene. 14 years working for the Credit Union serving the UofO, just 2 blocks from Sacred Heart. Just off the UofO campus on 11th Street.

I suspect the Kennell Ellis building became a Real Estate office, as did EVERY sizeable vacant building in Eugene in the 70's to very early 80's.

Memories are made of this, to coin and old advert for something???

 

[rhl-oregon]

Yes, K-E has been a variety of real estate offices upstairs since early 1990s. Downstairs is now Game City, one of the havens for board gamers.

However now, 3 1/2 square blocks between 13th-11th/Willamette-Charnelton are taken up by an Alabama speculator's 1200-BR student housing complex, and though it's not the only recent student housing behemoth, it is exhibiting serious build-quality issues and attracting subcontractor liens against the developer a few months after opening.

Dotsons is still open, thank goodness, with plenty of 35/120/4x5 film stock, though most of its developing is automated.

 

[maryland_fotos]

At farmers market in downtown Portland. Just over a year ago.

PortlandFarmersMarket3 by maryland_photos, on Flickr

Nikkor 55 1.2S with Nikon D800.

 

[gary2881]

Hubcaps by gary2881, on Flickr

 

[rhl-oregon]

Love the hubcap barn texture and tone!

From a recent drive up 101. First 2 heavily ND filtered to shoot into afternoon glare.

 

[gary2881]

Thanks, Robert.

Gary