The Sunday paper has an update on a new use for the former US Bank in the Hollywood neighborhood as the area continues toward a medical clinic monoculture. When the bank opened in 1972, it was "the first new building in the Hollywood Urban Renewal Project."
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| Morning paper, April 5th 1972 |
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| Afternoon paper, February 29th 1972 |
It was going to "reshape Hollywood."
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| Afternoon, June 4th 1971 |
The new theater planned to replace the old one never materialized, and instead was more loosely "replaced" with the Lancaster Mall theaters.
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| Morning, July 28th 1971 |
At the time the morning paper editorialized that "the Hollywood sector has become the
graveyard for a number of small businesses," and suggested that the main
problem was "communication," not any style or mode of development. After 50 years now, communication has not in fact seemed to be the problem.
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| Morning, August 5th 1971 |
We'll come back to this another time for more on the history of the Hollywood Urban Renewal area, as it is worth a closer look.
The style of the bank building is also typical, and it might be interesting to catalogue sometime all the slabby flat roofs and cornices with arcades around town. The bank building looks a lot like the Putnam Center at Willamette, for example, though they have different architects (Putnam is a James Payne et. al. design, and the bank is by Blanchard & Lamen, who a few years later developed the Myers-Schirle template that was used on a number of mid- and late-70s elementary schools.)
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| Putnam Center at Willamette University (2014) |
Related, see:
- On Hollywood as a 1920s/30s neighborhood hub, "We may Need more Neighborhood Hub Sites out of Our Salem" (2020)
- An earlier look at it, "Hollywood District Urban Renewal's Desolation and Third Bridge" (2012)
- On an arched and bricked version of the same arcade concept, "Mid-Century Brick Arches Embody Spirit of Old City Hall" (2023)
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