Old World Portland, Oregon - “The Clearing”, City of Roses, World’s Fair 1905, Reset / Demolition 

I worked with a woman in early 2000's that worked part-time for Portland Historical Society. Remember her telling me how her job was to go through the historical photographs and destroy certain ones. It's always stuck with me as she would periodically bring it up with an urgency, yet never really elaborated. Suspect that was done at many historical societies.

The Oregon historical Society has tens of thousands of photos online in the digital collection, with nearly 2,000 photos when you search construction. No pay wall. Portland was in no way abandoned in the 30s and 40s. There are some WILD conclusions in this video. There was a lot of public corruption and racism in Portland, but it is well documented. Oregon Public Broadcasting has a great show called Oregon Experience that tackles some of these topics in a more measured and historically focused approach. A great book about the topic is called Portland Confidential.

I would like to thank you for the brilliant work of collections you have accumulated from all around our globe ....cheers

With the kindest intention I want you to know Willamette is pronounced "Wil-LAM-ett, not Willa-met. This is a great video about Portland!

Born Oregon City 1949, raised in SE Portland. Good job except for a few glaring errors in pronunciation, which is expected (Wil-AM-et, not the suburb of Chicago; Captain John Cooch, not couch like the sofa). But some of the history is a bit shoddy: the railroad arrived in 1883, not the 1890's; and most of all, Oregon City faded and Portland became the big city because of the Ross Island sand bar prohibiting ocean going vessels from getting past. In other words, Portland was the head of navigation. And who stated such? Cpt. John Cooch. And the demolition of cast iron buildings on Front Street coincided with a general movement to "modernize" America after the Depression, through the sixties. Also, for excellent photos of Portland's past check out "Vintage Portland", an entry a day for the last 14 years

One thing that’s important to remember about Portland as it was plagued by several massive fires and flooding instances that destroyed most of the waterfront development several times. There are books that document the original land claims and the original Street layouts available. I actually have some of those in my home library Powell’s books is an excellent resource for old Portland information.

Growing up in Portland (born in 1988), they made it sound like the camera wasn't invented until the 1900's. Mostly showing only artist renderings and drawings of what early Portland / Oregon looked like. The "Pittock Mansion" was the only piece of Portland history we were taught with real photos and a field trip (no construction photos of course). They mostly focused on the "Oregon Trail" with Lewis and Clark. There's a huge chunk missing from the timeline! Especially the transition between settlement and city. 🤔 It wasn't until after school (until I lived downtown Portland for 5 years) that I learned about the old electric street car lines that were torn out. The underground network of tunnels that ran for miles beneath the city. And honestly just started raising my eyebrows over everything we were taught as locals growing up. Especially when you slow down and look at some of the still standing heavy stone masonry buildings left. "The United States National Bank" - "The Meier and Frank Building" - And "Multnomah County Public Library" are all very old world. And always seemed out of place when walking downtown. Anyway, GREAT video Jared!! Always blowing my mind! 🥹

I think to fully utilize the library at the Oregon Historical Society, you have to go there.

Much of the focus of this video is on downtown Portland, however most of the city is east of the Willamette where you’ll see plenty of buildings from the late 1800s up to the 1930s.

I can't believe you've done a video about my city, the Rose City! I love Portland. I've lived here over 40 years and there's always something to explore...a lot of mystery here. But it's beautiful and exciting. 🌹

How on earth would Portland get external supplies without a railroad!?! If only they had some place in PORTland to dock ships.

How can people use the term “old world” to describe Portland? There are more old buildings there than some people make it sound, but they are late 19th and early 20th century buildings - nothing like what is in Europe, which is what “old world” means to me.

A lot of these photos are from the Lewis and Clark exposition era and all those building were torn down after the expo was over that is why you see no people in them. It was all built for that then taken down. Also WILL AM IT is how we pronounce Willamette. Family photos from the mid 1800's show mostly wooden buildings in small areas of what is now Portland. Some of the street names are actually the names of small towns that became the city as the city grew out to meet them.

Damn nobody is saying anything about the two little kids standing on the logs of the building? Just how damn big is it the logs are friggin huge and looked like gigantic Legos say something aaaaaaahhhh!!! It's at 5:46

15:32 the shining esque group photo. Don't forget Portland is the city one is most likely to get shanghaied. The tunnel system is extensive

Look into the construction of Harbor Way on the waterfront. Looks like a lot of your "abandoned" building pics are in that area. Pretty much everything from front to 2nd was demolished for that project.

My Uncle William Thomas told me that most of all sections of Portland clear to the Sellwood town area, each had its own ethnic people segregated into their own areas. German, Hungarian, English, Irish, Chinese, and many other ethnic groups of peoples too. The early immigrants which came to Portland lived in their own sections of the city. My grandmother used to be a cleaning woman in the huge mansion on the hill ( she called it the castle on the ridge ) which had a hidden stairway and tunnel to the ship docks. People were secretly shanghaied through those tunnels to the ships and used as forced ship labor. During WW2 my grandmother went down those hidden tunnels and found hundreds of very valuable rich paintings which were brought to Portland from Germany for safety. When another country is bombing you, the best place to hide your priceless paintings is in another country which you are at war with. Portland in deed has a big history of secrets.

The transcontinental railroad reached Portland in Sept of 1883, which was an important factor in its growth thereafter. I'm not sure why this guy is saying it didn't reach Portland until the 1890s-1900. Another piece of misinformation here is the assertion the city was empty and abandoned in the late 1930s. It doesn't take but a quick look at the US census for 1930 and 1940 to see that the city was still growing, although the Great Depression had ended the boom period. If we actually look at exactly where the White photos were taken and when, they were primarily the buildings along Front (Naito) from Burnside to Morrison and mostly on the east side of the street just before demolition. The old waterfront was also demolished and all port facilities relocated to Swan Island, the NW Industrial District/Waterfront and the Kelly Point industrial port area east of St. John out on the 'peninsula'. What he doesn't seem to know is those buildings were indeed condemned by the city and demolished (sadly) to create the four lane divided Harbor Drive along the river. The narrator is creating a very false narrative about that situation. The city wasn't in some existential crisis losing population and sections of downtown were abandoned. Total nonsense. The 1940 census had Portland with 305,000 residents, up from 258,000 in 1920, an 18% growth rate in that 20 year period. City politicians decided the city needed some kind of major freeway-like thoroughfare through downtown because of the increase in population and cars. They opted to take out those old buildings along Naito and build Harbor Drive. Once WWII started, shipbuilding became an important part of Portland's economy, and the population increased to 373,000 in 1950 because of the influx of shipyard workers. That still wasn't a 'boom' as in the late 1800s-early 1900s when there was more than 100% growth every ten years. It's also a bit odd that the narrator doesn't examine the 10 year period 1965-1975 when there really was a massive demolition of most of the south end of the downtown area from Clay to Grant and from Naito to 4th Ave. This was the old Italian and Jewish area of the city center. This was also the period in which the city decided not to expand the freeway system but to build light rail transit instead. In fact, Harbor Drive was torn out and replaced with a park all along the river front. If there was ever a 'reset' as the narrator wants to say, then it was this period of time not the late 1930s. 'Old Portland' truly disappeared during the late 60s and early 70s.

So are you reaching for conspiracies? The depression happened in 1929, in 1936 we see thousands of Portlanders in the local Hooverville. I'm all for questioning history, but come on, the mainstream narrative being that towns should be growing during the Great Depression? Also, photos of "old" Portland are readily available.

My grandparents on both sides moved to the Portland area in the 1940s. I recognized the steel bridge and the Morrison street bridge. So many of the water front buildings you found in pictures def didn’t exist when I was growing up there except the train station. Up in the hills were where the rich people lived. The huge flood of van port destroyed the large population that lived in north Portland around Jantzen beach. But that is a huge delta area otherwise known as delta park. The river front area downtown when I was growing up was the slums of Portland. It was pretty abandoned except by the homeless population. Most industry had relocated to other areas of Portland. The Willamette river was grossly polluted. Nobody wanted to go near it. It was brown and stank as I recall. But with the clean water act of the 70s the river was revitalized. And now the river front is the happening place. Funny how things change. I remember my gramma ran the Portland Hotel. Rooms for rent with a shared bathroom on each floor. It was in a seedy part of town back then. I don’t think that old brick building even exists anymore. Torn down I’m assuming to make nice residences for the richer people who wanted river views without sharing a restroom with their neighbors. Lol. Thanks for sharing old pictures of the town where I grew up.

Thanks for bringing this to light. I have thought about this for many years now as a photographer myself I have documented the change in just 20 years and it shows

I grew up in Portland. When I was young the Huge Wooden Historical Society Log Building Burned to the ground. I believe most historical photos were lost in the fire along with many artifacts. Even the structures floors still showed the marks of the builders hobnail boots on the floors. Also John Couch was pronounced " Cooch" like the street.

Nice video, but I'm pretty sure the panorama drawing shown at 1:00, and repeated later, is of early Vancouver, Washington; the walled Fort Vancouver is at right. The image likely predates the 1840s establishment of Portland, perhaps by 20 years or so. Vancouver was within the Oregon Territory until the Washington Territory was created in 1853; Oregon went on to become a state in 1859, Washington in 1889. So it's not outlandish to include this in early Portland history, but these have always been distinct communities.

Interesting theories. There are some holes in your logic, and yet your great video, if rearranged, answers those logic gaps. Also, pronunciation is important to natives here. Two pepper names that messed you up: Couch prounced. "Kooch" Willamette p. "will-AM-it" ...at least you didn't try Glisan, Schuyler, or Tualatin. Logic gap: eg; For the source of money and power in Portland (before the railroad arrived), look at fishing, timber, and shipping. Oregon, and the area were once occupied by the Hudson's Bay Company - establishing Astoria (the oldest European settlement west of the Mississippi. It was interesting that you dismissed the name Portland as ironic, without considering the shipping industry that communicated timber and seafood ask over the world. And brought back what? Steel, bricks, concrete, textiles, etc. Yes, Portland was s lawless corrupt town in the 1800s, but you should probably do more due diligence on your research and conspiracial speculations. * 5th Gen Oregonian and Portlander

I first visited Portland in 1968, for a family wedding. I lived in L.A. at the time and thought Portland looked like a city stuck in the mid 40's to 50's look. In other words, at least 10 years behind that point. I moved my family to outer Multnomah County, which was much more pastoral then. During the early 1970's, Neil Goldschmidt was elected Mayor of Portland and I credit him with creating a revitalization of the city core that increased the livability of Portland to what it has become today. .

It always sends shivers down my spine when people pronounce Willamette and Couch incorrectly.

Ive lived in portland all my life and boy have I seen and heard some unbelievable things.

You can't make any serious conclusions by just checking one website for digitized photos and wikipedia. You have to hit the stacks and microfiche old-school. Read a few books for context. As far as absent people.. remember Cali. Goldrush in 1849, various others in Colorado, Nevada, Eastern. Oregon in subsequent decades, Klondike in 1890s would empty the streets of Portland at times. Crews would jump ship. Hence the need for shanghaiing. There are great city directories and census records for all those decades. Yes, construction could be fast. Compare San Francisco's growth. Most of the lumber for which, BTW came from Portland.

You hit the nail on the head regarding the construction photo's, i often wondered this as they are ever so proud of themselves not to miss the opportunity ! Great channel Jarid

Pretty poorly done video, the guy didn't even visit portland ,he harvested alll the information from the Internet

I love the question.... "Could they do this in 50 years?" Answer - YES!!! Absolutely! I'm just a Know-Nothing that keeps on learning, but I was born with the National Academy of Medicine and Earth Day in 1970 and I live in the Monumental City of controlled "Order." They went from "O say can you see" to "Sea to Shining Sea" in their songs to go along. Since 1900 in Baltimore, they have burned down the city, raised the Greek Gods of universal education. Rockefeller Public Health and as well as other towers of "Indulgence" at the complex. My old neighborhood was created in 1918 after the Star Fort of the 1860s was used to build the first 60 school houses. This one 1950s during Nancy Pelosi's father's corrupt contract mafia established "development" and all the old world was destroyed. It happens in small areas on a pattern of about every 50 years. In my lifetime - 2014 Rockefeller sold off the oil stocks from the business that he created and bought into healthcare and climate change. A year later, on the 154th anniversary of the Pratt Street Riot, Freddie Gray died and an "Uprising" happened. The line of of Crusaders and Community stood facing each other beside Etting Cemetery and the first ever game with no fans was held on Pratt Street in the former B&O Camden Station - now, Camden Yards. The Orioles were brought to town by Pelosi's father. Private Doctors doing house calls are gone for "Public Health" and people don't volunteer to learn on the job "candy stripper" but instead pay to learn real life out of a book. And let's not forget - cow farts are killing us and the carbon footprint is top news. They are "refurbishing" the Inner Harbor (again) it was done in the 1980s when the city was in "disarray." Again I will say "EXCELLENT WORK!" I will be sending this to a friend in Portland - much love!!

One thing that the author is confused about it is that the westward expansion across the Willamette river to East Portland was well underway by the 1920s there are massive historic neighborhoods in East Portland that were built between 1880 and 1912, so there was a max exodus of residential property from downtown area to the new East Portland. There are still some remnants of residential districts left in WestPortland if you look long and hard and carefully enough in the alphabet district, which was once a huge housing community that was torn down to make room for industrialization.

I grew up in Portland in the 80 and 90s. It is not the same place. However the sense of oddness and "offness" has always been there. Spokane has a lot of the same oddness in its history too. You should check that city out as well. Worlds fair, great fire around 1900, underground doorways, etc.

I would say that almost half of the pictures in this video are from the Lewis & Clark Exposition in 1905. None of that exists today, it was all torn down after the fair. The west was noted for having buildings with false facades. They always looked more grand than what they appeared. Before 1905 Portland was still a wild wilderness town with many undeveloped areas. I have heard it described that before WW2 Portland resembled a medieval city, the city and then the fields. The motto of Portland has never been like most cities to be "Bigger and Better." Livability has always triumphed. Even then they were more interested in the outdoors, clean water and family life.

Thank you for your search for knowledge and helping humanity to know there routes keep up your journey 👍

There is an underground part of the city too. "The Shanghai tunnels". There was an entrance to a section of the underground in a bar my friend owned. I've been down there before but you can only get to a portion of it cuz the rest have been sealed off.

The Scottish rites Freemason temple downtown is made of nearly megalithic blocks of rock. It looks way older than any other buildings.

Love this! Thanks for all of your research. One point of constructive criticism....pronunciation. Within 60 seconds you mispronounced "Willamette", "Chinook" and "Couch".

Where were all the photos with empty streets and buildings? The first photo was clearly taken late at night and all of the apartments have windows and some have lights on. And waiting for no one to be in the shot wouldn't be hard. The 2nd is just the front and a small bit of the side of a building. Windows and doors intact. And even easier to get a shot with no unwanted people or things in it. And the 3rd yes does show a small section of a side street with no cars in view or people. Again it could be an intentional early morning shot and a case of patience. You do score some demolished and one in the background that looks like it might not have and windows. That would almost be cool If we didn't already know a bunch of these pics were taken before the entire city was to be demolished. So clearly this is a section of the city were it already started. And the one with one guy and one car were it even says Pre Demolition, u can see the buildings have already begun to be stripped and skeletonized. Which is the literal way you prepare for demolition . And why exactly would people be in a part of the city where all of the buildings are empty and about to be destroyed except someone with a purpose? This just killed any hope I had for you to break free of the fantasy and start searching for the real truth like Awar, Static ,Woody and Wise up. Your better than this kid

Look up King Tartarex/Tatarex. Look up Chief Shakes in Canadian stories - I believe same man. And browse for Quivira on ancient maps. His territory. Initially north western North America. Forced inland to Indian territory and absorbed into other generic titles or renamed, unsure.

The Rose Festival grew out of the Portland Rose Society, an organization that was several years older than the festival. Gardening is a big deal in Oregon. Roses even grow wild here. That is why they have the Rose Festival. It has nothing to do with Europe.

have you considered checking newspapers of the day?

Images by Minor White, show empty Portland, this area was Japantown, which later became "New Chinatown"/Oldtown. Japantown, located just Southwest of the Steel Bridge, was full of shops, Services, housing, and entertainment for the Japanese-American families that lived there in the 1940s before they were forced into internment camps.

I spent years wandering the streets of Portland high on psychedelics as a youth and it always struck me that there was something older something deeper than what we could see on the street level.

Maybe you could do a video on what really happen to the red man and their land just a thought. thank you. great videos

Born & raised here in Portland, Oregon and I'm a child from the 70's. My Mom was born in 1949 in Salem, Oregon and her parents moved the family to Portland in the mid 1950's. My Great-grandparents lived in NE Portland during one of the historic floods (Portland has had about 10 major floods since 1894) and my Mom told me that my Great-grandparents built their bed atop of empty wooden barrels because the flood waters had reached the surrounding neighborhoods from the Willamette River and when they awoke in the morning, the water had flooded the house and their bed was floating in the bedroom by the afternoon of that day!.... I was 21yrs old and attending PSU when we had another devastating flood in 1996 that caused $27 Million in damages and structures were lost back then as well!... I could go on and on about Portland, Oregon, sadly I don't know a whole lot about other States, just the one I've resided in all my life!... Here's the 10 floods ranging from 1894 to 1996, based on the highestlevel of flooding by foot: (1) 33.00 ft on 06/07/1894 (2) 30.00 ft on 06/14/1948 (3) 30.00 ft on 06/01/1948 (4) 29.80 ft on 12/25/1964 (5) 28.70 ft on 02/06/1890 (6) 28.55 ft on 02/09/1996 (7) 28.20 ft on 06/24/1876 (8) 27.30 ft on 07/01/1880 (9) 26.40 ft on 06/04/1956 (10) 26.20 ft on 06/14/1882

That last picture is mind blowing. why would anyone demolish that?

Thankyou for your research you are a bright spot.

Lived there when I was 3 and 4. Thanks for recovering this stuff!

Oregon City has the same historical gaps. Seems the "unsightly" aspects have been conveniently deleted. For all those who followed the Oregon Trail to get here.... apparently no photographers made the journey. Thank you for your efforts on this!

Your narrative is very questionable in its conclusions about the city of Portland! I don't think you have gotten the full story, I believe that a lot of the official records and photos were lost or destroyed in the various disasters that happened, the fire and floods primarily! As far as the streets being deserted in the 1930's , that was during the Depression, and it is entirely logical that for a time the city was not very prosperous, Also the gold rush happened in the 1870's and many men left the city to go hunt for gold. So there are some significant events that aren't even mentioned in your narrative that could have affected the population of Portland.

From destroyed city with modest buildings to 150 operating streetcars in less than 20 years... impossible

I was raised with my grandparents up on Overton Street which was huge and belonged to the future first governor of Oregon. That house had a spiral stairway with an extra hidden staircase behind the wall of the main staircase. Upstairs behind the main closets was another hidden hallway where servants could laundry and hang the fresh clothes on the backside of the closets. My grandmother which lived in that mansion was Maybelle and Joseph Reid. The dinning room had a huge 12 foot table with draws on the sides of it. My brothers and I would hide not wanted foods in those side drawers of the table. Over the table was a huge glass chandelier like about 4 to 5 foot in diameter. When young my siblings and I would ride card board board boxes down the grand staircase. Our next door neighbor was the Fitzcharlds. I went to the old mans open box funeral - gave me the creeps. My brother and sister went to the grade school a few blocks north, close to the Old Montgomery building - which I had been in many times. My grandmother sold shoes there. Last I knew the old mansion is still there.

Btw, there's no grand conspiracy about the cities in Oregon not keeping their old architecture. Eugene, Salem and other cities have also mostly destroyed their pre-statehood buildings with little to no photographic evidence. Nobody thought ahead to whether or not anyone would care what these buildings would look like or where they were located. You also mispronounced Willamette. "Wil-AM-et" 3 syllables, not two. Thanks for pronouncing Oregon correctly, though.

this is so nutty haha. he answered many of his own questions from the end of the video with his own descriptions in the beginning lol.

I first moved to North Portland in ‘91 and then bought a house near Cathedral Park with St John’s Bridge very near me that crossed the Willamette River. Around ‘96 I moved to Vancouver WA located on the other side of the Columbia River until moving away in 2011. Majority of the years I worked for NW Natural Gas Utility Co… I don’t recall any stories about buildings being torn down or streets being swamped or the mob. Many old buildings exist but I don’t recall the ones shown in the photos. Oaks park was still operating when I lived there. I know that there are numerous tunnels under Portland. The early street lights were lit by gas produced from Coal. Portland Gas & Coke Co… There was one old building that I really wanted to snoop around inside but was off limits because the entire area is contaminated from the early days of Portland Gas & Coke Co…

Another quick comment: the tunnels were constructed to move product through the city without tearing up the roads. My grandpa helped do that as a child, yes child labor was a thing, to move goods to the Meire and Frank warehouse.

You can date many photos by the clothing. Many of the photos in this video are dated wrong just by looking at the clothes. My grandpa grew up here, working at Meire and Frank department store when he was 8. He worked in the same building that is there today in 1880. It had "high tech" air shoot money and receipt transfer tubes. Your general understanding of society classes seems very limited, not just for Portland but for the country. You haven't been here, take a tour. There are hundreds of photos from early Portland where you can tour Portland and see these same old buildings. There was a national depression, not just in Portland in 1930s. The early lighted photos you show are on the River during the Lewis and Clark expo, which you don't mention. My grandpa worked on those structures. Most were not real buildings. But 'props' like a movie set. The lights came from the new dams on the Clackamas River and PGE. You never mentioned the Forestry Center, the huge wood structure dedicated to Portlands Stump City history. I was in that building when I was a child and have photos. It was destroyed by fire in the 1960s. It was huge taking up several blocks. Portland's Iron industry wasn't a big deal until after 1900. Also see the maps. I have a 1920s map of the city, it indicates where all the business are, with the names. Many of these buildings are still there. I can send you a photo. Portland's primary businesses were shipping, lumber, and Construction. And just because you are bad at research outside the web, doesn't mean there is a conspiracy. My great grandpa came to Portland in 1856. Grandpa was born here before the great 1890 flood. Everything from 1st street to 5th street was flooded. You only mention the Vanport flood. That was on the Columbia, not the Willamette. You also miss the clearing of the River front to build the oil and gas storage near St John's district on both sides of the River. The population boom changed with the nation. The 1890 national depression and the building boom the followed brought thousands of immigrants, Swedes, Finns and Norwegians, to cut the big timber outside of Portland in Clackamas County. At least on of the buildings you show as empty and demolished is on the river front Westside just North of town on hey 30. It's still there. It was the old PG&E building. It's a cool structure and there has been a fight to keep it but the oil and gas folks don't want to deal with a historical building. It's in the flood plain. It's was flooded again in the 1963-4 flood too. Your statements are misleading and need to be updated after you actually visit. As many have mentioned you don't pronounce the River name correctly. Finally, the movie house row, shown several times in your video, was destroyed by development when I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Nordstrom store replaced several. not the 1930s. Downdown Portland is blocked by the westhills. The photo with Mounthood in the ba kground is the eastside of the river. Developed after the westside. Portland decided on many parks. More parks per capita than any other city in the country. Portland isn’t flat, its a series of hills, cinder butts, and volcanos. Shaped geographically by huge floods or both Lava millions of years ago and ice age floods thousands of years ago. Along with rain and snow melt floods more recently. The federal Government built power and flood control dams to reduce the flood impact. Bonneville Dam was built in 1936, followed by a series of dams over the next 30 years. These dams all but destroyed the native salmon runs up river. The salmon still run the River down to the falls and turn up the clackamas river at Oregon City. You need to label your photos better. Please visit Portland, take a tour.

I'm not sure why anyone would find it strange that a city could experience such incredible growth within a 50 year period. Of course, this is very possible and during the turn of the 19th century were driven by events such as the gold rushes (both California and Alaska) as well as the move towards the west. If you want a more recent example of this "phenomenon," just look at Las Vegas, which has grown exponentially within the last 50-60 years. Because if you think about it, Las Vegas, as a town, really shouldn't even have a reason to exist: it is nowhere near a waterway, nor is it on any train tracks. It's in the middle of a desert with nothing more than gambling to keep it up. On the other end of that spectrum, there is Detroit, which is one of the most advanced and richest cities in the country in the 1930s. Then, it experienced a massive exodus out of the city in the late 70's and early 80's, the result of a change of American tastes in automobiles.

Visit the old neighborhood churches.... Some of these photos and stories can be found in older churches from the era. I loved in the Brooklyn neighborhood & learned abt a unique time during WW1 where residents renamed local streets bearing German names: Rhine& Rhone for instance are now separated by... Lafayette??? That's because one of them was renamed. As well as Bismarck street renamed to Bush, etc. Just an example.

"Hosting a world's fair in 1905..." Here we go again...

Have you reached out to some family's of early residents? My family settled in Portland and Oregon in the 1800's. Seems like you only checked with historical societies and I can tell you there are many pictures hiding in homes!

Makes one wonder and rethink why Nikola Tesla moved out west to Colorado?? Hmm. Probly hot on the trail of Old World tech

Thank you so much! I was hoping to finally see your research on the Rose City, I always look for evidence whenever we drive through here. Cheers!

Man, it's all so ridiculous. I can't believe how none of this makes any sense anymore. How was this all pulled off? How do we not remember? What the fukk happened? And why do so few seek the truth or even seem to care?

I hope you save the Ancient 1000 year old building in Ukraine's Donbas region ... They have been inialated by bombing The Domes on these ancient buildings can not be rebuilt by the Architect s of today .... Its a soul that determines the creation

My neighbor is 90 I'll ask him. He's been in Oregon his whole life. His family came in the trail to Linn County. His home was made in 1868.

Grew up here and still live here have always thought Portland is a weird and mysterious place

Thank you sharing all of the photos. I enjoy your videos. Maybe some of this happened and happens on a regular basis: earthquakes and tsunami's, cities are beautiful, built up, free electricity via the ether, radio/television, computers, digital photography and videos, movies. The Port Land would have had buoys showing that it was time to evacuate. Everyone in the city or had electricity is evacuated. After this kind of destruction (as in India and elsewhere), people die of Malaria. My Norwegian Grandfather told me he took his sister and got on a ship for America at the age of 12, he ended up in North Dakota. He said when he joined the Army in WWI(clean up America), he had Malaria the entire trip. One trip really. That's where he was sent and stayed. He had ten children. Lots of people in the midwest had lots of children. Somewhere along the way Native Americas died at a higher rate. Maybe that is really when the United States removed their sovereign status, and took title their huge amounts of land. Or maybe they couldn't tell where the land ended up. Maybe this had happened every so often, a result of a changing earth. This horror show went all the way across, covered the plains, the food supply suffered, rationing.... Wisconsin is still wet in the north. Clearly 1906 was a major earthquake probably in Japan, tsunami on the West coast. In San Francisco, that's what happened. I know, I have family records. There was a Marine base there, helping, and government airships taking photos. The coasts would have had access to boats, you would fare better there if you were warned. Look, the trees are gone, not cleared, everything is covered in mud and guck. There are no roads, it takes a long time to build the infrastructure back starting with rail, but that would take a long time as you point out in Port Land with the sidewalks sinking. We see large amounts of people at the beach. It was probably something clean to do, wash your clothes and children, let them swim and play. I have family photos where the "yellow sky" has been cut out. It showed how long the guck stayed in the atmosphere. I have digital photos handed person to person in my family from 1849. Americans came together, helped each other in a way that inspires me. My family got cast to the wind a little bit, but we all manage to find each other usually. Thanks again. Love.

Another old world town with missing time. They're saying oldest Old World building from the early thirties no way. Definitely from the late 1800s where are all the people that's the question. I've seen on another site a picture of Moscow around 1850 the town was empty. 20 years later there are thousands of bustling people what's going on? Keep up the good work the controllers are definitely screwing with the timeline. No fire it seems like all the other old world cities succumb to Great fire

Great video Jarid, just one thing the river is pronounced Wil (rhymes with bill) - Am (rhymes with Pam) - It

Some of the conclusions made in the latter parts of this video are interesting. I was born in 1942 in old St Vincents Hospital which was on the west side of Portland. My family lived in a small town about thirty miles west of the city, but I had two families of relatives living in Portland proper. I recall making regular visits to those relatives and after WWII ended, going on shopping trips to downtown Portland. At that time the downtown area was a bustling place, the center of commerce as this was prior to any shopping malls being built. I remember being taken to the Forestry Building that remained in use after the Lewis and Clark Exposition. It burned not long after that time. My point is that I have no memories of wide spread renovation of areas of the city. Whenever we drove through Portland, there was the normal mix of old and newer buildings.

Awesome work. One of my favorite places 12 years ago.

I grew up in pdx and was a galleria brat in the 80s before the oldest buildings downtown were decommissioned. there was and still is an extensive tunnel system throughout downtown to the waterfront but they’ve largely been blocked off. I was in them a few times but don’t recall details beyond the heavy metal gates ppl put up to secure storage space. the old courthouse and the old original main PO on 4th, and the long-gone meier and frank building always struck me as odd. in the area where the tunnels are supposed to originate is all victorian era mansions, but the old apartments bordering that area all have pretty deep basements and it’s all one long slope toward the Willamette. it’s been decades since I been underground here and the tours only show a fraction. Missoula floods destroyed everything in its path, so huge impact on population then, and then again when logging barons arrived. I own property that the barons destroyed. 100 years later the land has barely started to recover. there’s no question in my mind that the first thing colonizers did when they got here is cut down all the old trees. it’s where the lumber to build Sears kit homes came from. they cut down the trees and planted orchards and destroyed swan island with fill on the east side of the river with fill. downtown is on the west side so idk if they just blasted material off the cliffs to fill in the channels around swan island, but there was earth-moving going on from the beginning of white occupation. now I know of your interest I’ll keep my eyes open for photos. the only interesting one I have in my possession is a photo of 10th and Morrison I took from the upper floor of the galleria when light rail construction was going on. pretty sure it cut into the tunnel system but the photo and negative are currently in storage.

The building @23:23 in your video shows an apartment building, which is presumed empty, at a time when it should be full because of the population spike, their were no ready made homes & subdivisions to move to back in those days, everyone lived in the city, so why is it empty? That's a thread that keeps unraveling, with these cities having empty living quarters when wave after wave of people start to come in and populate these cities after 1860. Like my city had 30 blocks of store front buildings with 4 stories of apartments above them, block after block after block but the apartments are empty, the store fronts look old and gutted themselves back then. You would figure that windows would be up, laundry hanging from a rope above the street, a couple of dudes just hanging out on the corner, for population of 100,00 in 1866 but No, nothing like that. Great Video!!

It's the Willamette, dammit (make it rhyme and you'll be saying it correctly). ❤

Lifetime Portland resident, and can say I loved the bits of info you were able to find for this. It could be of use to know that much of Portland lies outside of historical downtown. Moreover one of the most important events in Portland history happens with the flooding of Vanport on 1948. This would displace an inordinate amount of POC who had come from across the nation to work at the Kaiser shipyards in WW2, as many of them lived in that community before it's flooding, but had nowhere to go once their homes were gone. Portland, still being a very white city in 1948, had no idea what to do at this point and turned to the Portland Housing Authority who -in one of Portlands most controversial and influential decisions-created a housing district in Albina for all POC. This was the birth of the ghettos of Albina and, more importantly, a massive population shift that took place within the city from there.

Is was illegal for blacks to come to Oregon until late 1920’s, got 30 lashes if they did & another 30 if they stayed another 30 days. Got to love that Oregon history!

Excellent video! Porland, like a lot of American cities, was looking pretty shabby by the end of the 1930's. A whole decade of terrible economic destruction. Everywhere empty business space, broken widows that could not be replaced, homes in disrepair, roads and infrastructure falling apart, failed banks and industries, ramshackle shacks of the unemployed filling empty lots. There is nobody left to act as an eyewitness to the deep and complete economic dislocation the Great Depression caused. We can have no idea today of what it was like.

Some very interesting information in this video on the shady history we are told about Portland. I'll be doing a live look at Portland soon sharing my file. This video definitely adds to my understanding of the area. I always enjoy these thanks for the content!

I made a post on Facebook book with 80 photos back in December and January lost architecture of Oregon, had a lot of Roman style looking architecture, no way they built any of it especially with the population size

I live right across the Columbia from Portland. Never heard that Government Camp was ever called Pompeii! That's sounding like some kind of clue. Now, I want to go over there, even as bad as it is and dig around for some more info! And cast iron buildings?? What the... who builds buildings out of CAST IRON?! That's gotta be an insane project! Dang!

Really looking forward to this current reset to be completed. This city has so much more to offer than what's currently on the menu.

Present 🙋👍BOOM BABY!!! Thanks for this!! Boots on the ground Salem Oregon ⚓Starforts, underground,glass sidewalks, mudflood evidence oh my I believe I spy with my eye. Second opinions greatly appreciated.. west Salem. Was a big 6 pointed star. I believe...

The Great Terrain Robbery ! Gutted then photographed ? Wow awesome Jared. Cheers.

I’m confused as to the premise of the information you are presenting. There are clearly photos of buildings being built in Portland as there are of photos being built in every city. Just because you didn’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist look harder they are difficult to find in any city. Construction photographs many times were not saved as they were used for Insurance purposes and for reference by the architect and builder/contractor. And considering how many devastating floods Portland has had over the years, much of its material history which would document such things is gone. You will find that many cities in the 1890s through the 1920s had devastating fires and events which destroyed that cities early documents and photos. You didn’t find them not because there’s some great conspiracy to hide some truth, but rather because they’ve been lost through some disaster. No building just magically appeared out of nowhere. Obviously somebody designed it, somebody else built it, and somebody else used it. If all you can find of a building is a photograph or a notice or mention in a newspaper article but that building no longer exist today doesn’t mean that there is some conspiracy to claim a building existed when it’s not there now, but rather time has had its effect on yet another building like many others. Somebody decided to build it, somebody else later decided to tear it down; the lifecycle of cities everywhere. Also, what is this word of “old world “supposed to mean? Don’t get it confused in peoples heads that there used to be some kind of other civilization or time period that mysteriously disappeared only to leave some of their old buildings left. Here in the United States, the words “old world “refer to England and the other European countries mostly in the context of referring to our colonial beginnings. But everything here in the United States is clearly “new world “in comparison.

I have carried this around in my heart for awhile watching your videos about the old world. This is what I have noticed that no one really mentions in 2 categories, first the incredible carved intricate statues. The Statue of Liberty for example. The carve such incredible detail and everything is so perfect except the bridge of the nose is directly connect to the forehead with NO indention. Ours are indented! I teach portrait painting and drawing and the space between the brow one and the nose bridge is a hexagon “ish” shape referred to as the glabela. Very important area to note in a portrait but the statues of old don’t have one! It makes me wonder as well because the further we trace the ancestry from humans the larger the forehead AND the deeper the dent into the skull. So in essence, the development of man has lessened the size of that indention…Which makes me wonder if that is because they were an advanced people who shared there DNA to help genetically produce our race and might be considered nephilim. 2nd, in the many photos you have shown when I notice the empty cities everywhere with no life in them except a few obvious bystanders, they are most always the men in black. Rarely any women, if there are they are usually with them when the cities are fuller. BUT I find this weird, there are often children (mostly adolescent males) with the men only. On occasion a girl if there are a bunch of kids but almost never a woman present. Hopefully it isn’t anything nefarious! No telling. But with the orphan train story and all of the parentless children, I wonder if they aren’t young kids they pull into the fold to train to be future members or leaders of their secret society??? Any thoughts??

Howdy Y'all.

Butte Montana has 10,000 miles of mining tunnels under it.. how long do you think it would take, to dig 10,000 miles of tunnels… with a pick and shovel…… I’m betting, a lot longer than we are being told…..

I wish I could have seen Portland before it became well…. Portland lol. My great grand parents emigrated from Scotland to the USA in the early 1930s and made life in Portland. I’m now just 30-40 minutes north of there in south west Washington.

New sub to your channel. Thank you Jared! We live west of Portland. There's many buildings and areas that are quite curious. The old residential areas that surround the Portland Rose Gardens used to have a castle that was torn down. I always wondered if it may be part of something much bigger than most would imagine.

Timberline lodge was actually one area i can say is ours... i worked ther for a year as a hopuseman and saw tons of building plans,pictures of start to finish with tools and well i was a houseman and its a hgotel. beautiful but not old world. It was built by us govt during the depression WPA program... and all stones came from the volcano,Mt Hood. but everything else i question. The forest around provided the trees and if you get a chance its worth looking at they even have old stones cut in half and lots of evidence EVEN videos too!! THX for your work ,,Richard

By 1905 there were 150 electric street cars in Portland ?

My great great grandfather was a German surveyor in the United states to help spread new Germanic architecture. I have photos of the United states from 1837 all over. Every state and they all have large populations with a people with black skin and white features. All melungeon peoples. The buildings were red brick. Lighting fixtures without wires. In fact it's Turkish engineering all over the globe. Even the voynich manuscript is in ancient turkish.

Basically this was interesting to watch. You had photos I had never seen while growing up here. I am a forth generation Portlander and have a couple of things to say. When doing documentaries PLEASE find out the correct way to say the names of rivers, founders, tribes and the basic word, charade. The Willamette river is mispronounced, Couch as well as Chinook are others. Many of these photo’s that were taken were in the early mornings in order to give better definition of the streets and surroundings. People don’t just disappear. I hope that the next documentary is done bit better and with practice. Good luck.

It used to take photographs over 15 minutes to capture a picture the reason you rarely see people in any city not just Portland back in the day, is because no one stood still long enough for the camera to capture them. Again it's an issue with the exposure on the camera if you're trying to take a big wide shot the camera isn't going to be able to pick up all the little stuff moving around.

Strategic compartmentalization is an appropriate description of how we are slowly force fed mis information until it is accepted as common fact

The pronunciations of these historical names, the misinformed rants and somewhat backwards history "facts". are killing me - may I suggest interviewing people who actually have lived here for more than 7 months, you will definitely learn something valuable.

Really interesting. Spokane Washington is another city with a strange old world history.

Another source of photos are the aerial photos taken by the US government prior to dam building on both the Clackamas river and Columbia rivers. The Corp. Of Engineers has these photos and they need to be archived because the are the last physical evidence of traditional places before they were flooded. Among these are also arial views of Portland, Oregon City and Vancouver, Washinton.