Historic Hood River
Third Street, circa 1912
Notes
This view looking up Third Street towards Oak dates to about 1912. The streets would be paved in 1913, and the First National Bank was built in 1910 along with the Heilbronner Building in the foreground.
You can see the offices of the Hood River Glacier on the first floor of the Heilbronner Building. Next door is “Electric Wiring and Supply Company.” Basement of the First National Bank houses a realtor promoting “Orchard Land” and the National Apple Company. Upstairs the Heilbronner Building houses the offices of Stearns and Darby, Lawyers, as well as a physician whose name I can’t make out.
The building on the SW corner of 3rd and Oak advertises “Furnished Rooms For Rent.”
Maybe Dale can ID the automobile for us. I am impressed he is trusting his parking brakes on that hill. At least his front wheels are turned toward the curb.
L .E.
Are those Native American ladies walking up the street?
Dale Nicol
Arthur, The car resembles an American underslung roadster and would have been expensive to purchase.
Is it possible to enlarge the front hood area and maybe get a better take on the car?
Agree with L.E.’s observation the ladies do look like Native Americans and a small child.
Ellen Shapley
Love the Spanish Mission remodeled facade (1910/11) by Albert Sutton, on the SW corner of Oak and 3rd. It “will be one of the most attractive buildings in the city.”
Cecelia Goodnight
Was the building on the SW corner torn down to make way for the Butler Bank building? And can building behind it be identified?
JEC
Is that a barber pole on the corner of the bank building?
kmb
My great-great grandfather was a VP at First National Bank in this era. I really appreciate seeing pictures of what things looked like back in his day, and try to imagine what their life was like.