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| Downtown historic district with several parking lot sites numbered |
(Sites 1 and 2)
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| SE Corner of Chemeketa and Commercial, then and now Then: Eldridge Block circa 1940, Salem Library Inset, today: Chemeketa Parkade (Click to enlarge) |
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| Hotel Argo (Salem Library Historic Photos) |
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| Same site today - streetview |
Lots at State Street and High Street
(Sites 3, 4, and 5)
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| McGilchrist and Bligh buildings, early 1940s (Salem Library Historic Photos) |
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| Approximate same view - the Bligh's footprint is a parking lot via Streetview |
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| State Hotel Fire, 1966 (Salem Library Historic Photos) |
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| Same view today - streetview |
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| High Street at Court, circa 1912 Simonton Motor Company building behind railcar |
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| Same view, today, Hotel and Grand Theater on right |
(sites 6 and 7)
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| Most of these buildings are gone now Commercial Street, 1966: UO Library |
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| Same view today - streetview |
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| Griswold-Murphy block, 1940 (Salem Library Historic Photos) |
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| Same site today - streetview |
(sites 8 and 9)
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| Old City Hall and Derby Building in Distance (Looking SE-ish from north side of Chemeketa and High) Salem Library Historic Photos |
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| Same view today - streetview |
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| Capital Journal on Chemeketa, 1953 (Salem Library Historic Photos) |
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| Same view today - streetview |
(site 10)
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| Holman Building demolished for Marion Car Park (bottom) SHINE: 1950 |
2 comments:
The new urbanist and social critic James Howard Kunstler (author of the indispensable Geography of Nowhere), has a name for these sites that can ruin a downtown and almost have, in our case. He calls them "missing teeth"! Thanks for this documentation. Let these be the last of the missing teeth in downtown Salem please.
Don't forget the Capitol Theater on State St, also now a parking lot
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