Historic Hood River
Oak Street, circa 1911
3-21-2024
Notes
This Thomson family album view of Oak Street dates to about 1911. We’re looking west, standing in front of the Brosius Block (NW corner of 2nd and Oak). You can see the 1910 First National Bank building in the distance. This street would be paved about 1913, bracketing the dates. The Paris Fair, of which Mr. Thomson was a partner, is also visible. I’ll bet that’s where his fancy duds came from.
The shop to the right is a jewelry store with an awning advertising “Repairing a Specialty”. There’s also a barber pole in the doorway.
Note the iconic Butler Bank Building wouldn’t be built until 1924.
Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: 1910s, Brosius Block, First National Bank Building, Oak Street, Paris Fair, Thompson
Tags: 1910s, Brosius Block, First National Bank Building, Oak Street, Paris Fair, Thompson
Buck Parker
That’s one of the few photos I’ve seen that shows the building that was on that corner before the Butler Bank. Does anyone know what it was?
Bill Seaton
That was still a barber shop in 1947, when I got my first haircut there. At that time, it was called the Bon Ton Barber Shop and Hebe Moore was the head barber. You could also get your shoes shinned there.
nails
No horse leavings in the street.
Was keeping the street clean of horse manure
a city responsibility?
Arlen L sheldrake
Nails, the back story would be interesting….how many staff did it take to keep the streets semi-clean
Ellen Shapley
Buck, the story on that building is a little long but it is a remodel of another building in a Spanish Mission style. Articles dated October, 1910 identify newly arrived (from San Francisco) Albert Sutton as the architect. He later went on to form a firm with H A Whitney in Portland and became a prolific and prominent NW architect. Check out my story for the HR Museum newsletter (Fall 2018) on him and his other HR buildings. Contact me for more info at Architouring@icloud.com