Viking_Yearbook_68

The area of expansion will be roughly from Market Street on the north to Jack– son on the south , extending from sixth on the east to the freeway on the west. All will become Portland State domain with the notable exception of the lone Plaza-too expensive to subsume. P.S.C. will rise here, skyward, appear– ing to be part of the commercial com– plex of buildings that will surround it. Concrete, steel and glass, vast garages below. Progress. The legislature loving. But what of that displaced? Many of the familiar landmarks of the old P.S.C. neighborhood have gone already, in– cluding Hassons' market, several taverns including the Spatenhouse, Bianca ' s Coffee Shop, the Broadway Apartments, the Vedanta Society House, the old St. Helens Hall, the George Washington Apartments, the Town House Apart– ments, the boarding houses on Tenth and Eleventh and Clay, two synagogues and dozens of other homes and shops that one could remember only if they reappeared . But much more will be destroyed. Things are changing, utterly. Within five years almost all that is familiar within P.S.C. boundaries will be gone, with the exception of the campus buildings themselves. A partial list of apartment houses and establishments removed should suffice to show the magnitude of that change. Among them will be Papa John's, Montague's Pizza Corner, The Trieste, Montgomery Gardens, the Chocolate Moose, Lydia's, Varsity Bookstore, Town Talk Market, Hillison's and the Plaza Cleaners, The Green Spot, The Corner Drugstore, several garages and gas sta– tions, Young's Gown Shop, Sherbourne's Barber Shop, a shoe repair shop, a furni– ture store. Among the apartments de– stroyed will be the San Rafael, the Martha Washington, the Elmwood, the Queen Louise and the Blackstone, The King George, the Northampton and others, named or nameless.