Neighborhood just North of Geer Park May be Most Impacted by I-5 Corridor in 1950s

It turns out news articles are not the best way to find displacement, demolition, and condemnation for what became the I-5 alignment.

Auction ads are much better!

They show more houses moved or demolished than the news suggested. There are twenty six households represented in this list, just for the Salem Bypass, not including the Hayesville Interchange. This is not likely yet a complete list, and we may add to it. 

1957 Salem and Stayton USGS maps

The most impacted neighborhood might be the new one just north of what is now Geer Park up to Center Street.

October 14th, 1951

Additionally, the first ad in the series suggests this was a new method: "First time homes have been offered under this method by Highway Commission."

November 3rd, 1951

November 10th, 1951

November 17th, 1951

November 23rd, 1951

November 24th, 1951

January 5th, 1952

April 19th, 1952

June 1st, 1952

Here's the list in text form, reordered by street rather than auction date, running north from State Street. Most of them are in the area circled on the map at top, just north of Geer Park today, where in 1957 the urban fabric was clearly butting up against the highway alignment. The main plats there were filed in 1946 and 1949, so these were nearly certain to be very new houses. There are also what look like gaps, and again we may add to this list.

• 3707 Monroe Avenue
• 3715 Monroe Avenue
• 3755 Monroe Avenue
• 3712 Thorndale Avenue
• 3714 Thorndale Avenue
• 3720 Thorndale Avenue
• 3650 Osborn Avenue
• 3655 Osborn Avenue
• 3660 Osborn Avenue
• 3710 Osborn Avenue
• 3710 Bell Road
• 3660 Truman Avenue
• 3676 Truman Avenue
• 3690 Truman Avenue
• 3650 Center Street
• 3709 Center Street
• 3595 D Street
  
• 3585 Garden Road (Market St.)
  
• 3640 Sunnyview Avenue
• 3650 Sunnyview Avenue
• 3655 Sunnyview Avenue
• 3657 Sunnyview Avenue
• 3660 Sunnyview Avenue
  
• 2765 Fisher Road
• Two homes near Pringle School out south (no address given)
  

At some point there might be more to say about those displaced, the people who lived in these homes, but at the moment we'll focus on the houses and addresses as the first unit for analysis. 

Notes on auctions for the Hayesville Interchange and then the Salem-Portland Expressway near Chemawa may be be in separate posts, depending on how many there are.