NW Thurman Street
Route 2
"Thurman Street was named for G. William Thurman, an assistant manager at the Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company. How does such a lowly minion get his name on a street? As is often the case, it's whom you know. Thurman was buddies with Portland's superintendent of streets, who renamed many of the city's streets in 1891."
Foster 20
"Meriwether's Restaurant is situated on the site of Portland's 1905 World's Fair, the "Lewis and Clark Exposition." The historic building sits at the entrance to the fair, on the corner of NW 26th Avenue and Vaughn Street in Northwest Portland's industrial area. Except for paint and landscaping, the exterior of the building has remained relatively unchanged since the late 1920's."
http://www.meriwethersnw.com/our-story/our-history
Links
PDXccentric: An Odyssey of Portland's Oddities
C2 Hydrant Hugged Tree
Panoramio: A hydrant hugging tree on NW Thurman Street.
How many years did this take?
PDXccentric: An Odyssey of Portland's Oddities
Guilds Lake, the Forestry Building and Montgomery Ward’s are all things of the past.
https://pdxccentric.wordpress.com/guilds-lake-forestry-building-and-montgomery-ward
Meriwether's Restaurant & Skyline Farm
This is two blocks south of Thurman St., but worthy of a mention. My son Jack, who appears here and there in some photos, attended this school for Kindergarten.
PDXccentric: An Odyssey of Portland's Oddities
C3 Swifts:
Evenings in September you can watch Vaux’s Swifts prepare to roost for the night at Chapman Elementary School in northwest Portland. It happens one hour before sunset each night of the month.
Vaux’s Swifts use the Chapman chimney as an evening roost during their fall migration. Every year Portlanders gather on the school lawn and in Wallace Park to watch the birds swirling and funneling overhead waiting for their chance to dive into the chimney trying to avoid the hawks that wait to dive bomb them looking for an evening meal. Most nights there are Audubon volunteers on hand to answer questions about the Swifts.