Photos from our Argentina/Uruguay trip are finally completed, and we have no international travel scheduled until April (Australia). So I'm back to taking pictures in Portland, Oregon, and have been concentrating on the Slabtown neighborhood. The peculiar name comes from the early days when the scraps (slabs) from turning logs into lumber were stacked in front of the houses of workers, to be used for heating and cooking fuel.
The boundaries of Slabtown are somewhat indistinct (it's not an official Portland neighborhood, but exists within the Northwest District), but the eastern edge is NW 16th Avenue, which runs underneath the elevated highways US 405 and US 30. There's a rather dramatic junction overhead where the two split, with US 30 heading west to the coast, and US 405 heading east over the Fremont Bridge and then north toward Washington State. I'll begin this series of photos with images of the sweeping shadowed overhead and massive supporting pillars.
The boundaries of Slabtown are somewhat indistinct (it's not an official Portland neighborhood, but exists within the Northwest District), but the eastern edge is NW 16th Avenue, which runs underneath the elevated highways US 405 and US 30. There's a rather dramatic junction overhead where the two split, with US 30 heading west to the coast, and US 405 heading east over the Fremont Bridge and then north toward Washington State. I'll begin this series of photos with images of the sweeping shadowed overhead and massive supporting pillars.
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