Historic Hood River
Construction Site
Notes
This is the construction of the Perry & Jones Meat Market on Oak Street, at the present location of the Paris Fair building. It looks like everyone has just picked up a tool to look busy for the camera. The guy up top is painting while they haven’t even installed the windows and doors below. The foundation looks like a stack of river rock.
It’s a good thing they didn’t spend much time with this building, as it didn’t need to last very long. Records show it operated as the Perry & Jones Meat Market as early as 1890. They sold the business to O.B. Hartley in 1892 (though it appears they still owned the building). It appears in the 1893 and 1902 Sanborn maps, but was replaced by the first stage of the Paris Fair Building by 1904- 1905.
Tags: 1890s, butcher, Hartley, Hartley Grocery, meat, meat market, Oak Street, OB Hartley Market, Paris Fair, Perry & Jones Meat Market
Dale Nicol
Note the OSHA approved scaffolding and seismic upgraded foundation!
L.E.
Are we looking east? It seems if we were looking south, the hill behind the building would be steeper.
Arthur Babitz
LE, I think that’s just a trick of camera angle and a wide angle lens. The camera is tilted up to see the top floor, and standard lenses of the era were considerably wider field of view than today, which will make the slope look shallower.
nels
Now that you mention it Dale! Took a second look and decided you would not get me up there. Or check out the on/off ramps to the right. Oh my.
Arthur
Pretty much every issue of the Glacier in this era described someone being sucked into a sawmill or getting crushed at a construction site. Life wasn’t very easy.
L. E.
I wonder what was the purpose of such a tall multi story building for a meat market?
With the steep hill behind, did the carcasses go in the second story back door like Paris Fair had, where they were butchered and the meat market ground floor.
Or were living quarters upstairs?